It contains advice about how to undertake 14 common household tasks each written in the style of a famous author from history.

[3] The book includes chapters on how to bleed a radiator by Emily Brontë,[1][4] tile a bathroom by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,[4][5] hang wallpaper by Hemingway,[4][5][6] unblock a sink by Sartre,[1] repair a dripping tap with Marguerite Duras,[2] put up a garden fence with Hunter S Thompson,[2][3][6] paint a panelled door with Anaïs Nin,[2] re-glaze a window with Milan Kundera, board an attic with Edgar Allan Poe,[7] loosen a stuck drawer with Samuel Beckett[7] and how to paint a room with Haruki Murakami.

[8] As with his previous work, Sartre's Sink is illustrated with paintings by the author in the style of a number of famous artists including van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Magritte and Turner.

[6] The Telegraph felt that the subject matter of Sartre's Sink was "not as interesting" as that of Crick's earlier book Kafka's Soup.

[9] Roy Williams of The Australian called it "a minor masterpiece" naming painting the panelled door and putting up the garden fence as his particular favourites.