WARREN ELLIS Nina Simones Gum (2021 UK 208-page hardback book - On Thursday 1st July 1999 Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Caves Meltdown Festival. After the show in a state of awe Warren Ellis crept onto the stage took Dr Simones piece of chewed gum from the piano wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. The gum remained with him for twenty years; a sacred totem his creative muse a conduit that would eventually take Ellis back to his childhood and his relationship with found objects growing in significance with every passing year. Nina Simones Gum is about how something so small can form beautiful connections between people. It is a story about the meaning we place