Candour or Critique is a 2023 collection of sixteen literary autobiographical essays by Robert Edwards on themes including cars, architecture, clothes, performance and nonconformity.

A 300-page volume, 18 x 11cm, printed on high quality card and paper, thread- bound, published in 2023; designed, produced (apart from printing and binding) and published by the author.

The book is a collection of sixteen stand- alone chapters, each of them an essay in the form of a chronological account of a theme in the author’s life. Subjects may be utilities – for example cars, architecture – or behavioural – clothes, performance – or conceptual or abstract – nonconformities, number.

The work endeavours to be as accurate and truthful as possible while sceptical of great success in either of those respects. Principal grounds for calling the pieces essays were that they should be literary and probing. Digressions and diversions occur. The book is intended to be durable, distinctive and entertaining.