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  • I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things: A creative journey through the everyday wonders of our world

    by Rob Auton ...
    A selection of the world’s most incredible things according to award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob AutonI Strongly Believe In Incredible Things is a book of poetic prose, musings, short stories and biro drawings detailing a selection of the Earth’s incredible things by award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob Auton.Unique, enchanting and utterly life affirming, ... Read more

    £8.99

  • Stitches

    by Junji Ito ...
    Series series Junji Ito
    A tumor shaped like a man’s face slowly moves across a woman’s body. The sea shoots glowing balls into the sky, much to the distress of beachgoers. And a girl dressed up for a holiday has no eyes, no nose, nothing—her face is a total blank.Hirokatsu Kihara pens true stories of unsolved mysteries, stitched together with page after page of Junji Ito’s original illustrations in this collection of ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Strangeland

    The memoirs of one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation

    by Tracey Emin ...
    The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory' TelegraphTracey Emin's Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own ... Read more

    £3.99 £0.99

  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    A Memoir of Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper

    John Richardson's riveting memoir about growing up in England and, at twenty-five, beginning his twelve-year adventure with the controversial art collector Douglas Cooper.With a new introduction by Jed Perl, here is John Richardson's richly entertaining memoir of his life with the brilliant but difficult British art expert Douglas Cooper--a fiendish, colorful, Evelyn Waugh-like figure who single ... Read more

    £6.99

  • The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968

    SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTAND SPECTATORSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019'This exceptional book is far from standard biography … A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone from Princess Margaret to the Krays, a tour of the immediate post-war ar... ... Read more

    £8.99

  • 人生就求一次如魚得水:紐約金獎插畫家的自由生活提案

    by Cinyee Chiu ...
    ★紐約金獎插畫家作品超值珍藏★作品榮獲紐約插畫家協會廣告類金獎肯定★創作繪本《青春之石》為Fliper群眾募資討論度最高,募資達成率超過3,000%!★ 2019書展「兒童及青少年獎」首獎得主/FOREST、歌手、自由創作者/小球(莊鵑瑛)、貝殼放大創辦人/林大涵、Fourdesire 創辦人兼製作人/陳威帆、波隆納SM國際插畫大獎得主/鄒駿昇、自由作家/劉揚銘、斜槓出版邊緣人/編笑編哭、圖文作家/編輯小姐Yuli──強力推薦至今為止的人生都在努力為他人的期望而活?重視內心的聲音一次,做我一直想要做的,從經濟到插畫,從臺灣到世界,開始發光發熱,像被放進水裡的魚,終於進入自己的人生!「不是得到眾人羨慕的事物或成就,你就會開心。」因為讀書還行,Cinyee一路念到了臺大經濟系,<b... ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Vanessa Bell

    Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist

    The definitive and authorised biography of the artist Vanessa Bell.Even through the lens of the twenty-first century, the story of Vanessa Bell's life is unorthodox. A powerful magnetic figure, Bell lived at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group and was often the core figure around which the disparate individuals of the movement revolved.Her art and designs – so often overshadowed by her sister ... Read more

    £7.99

  • Christina Rossetti

    A Biography

    Why is Christina Rossetti, probably the major woman poet of Victorian Britain, so invisible today? This is the central question addressed in this biography. Rossetti, author of Goblin Market , My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird and In the Deep Midwinter has often been overshadowed by her brother Dante Gabriel. Drawing on many sources, this study enables the reader to piece together a more complete ... Read more

    £2.99

  • Daria Klimentova - The Agony and the Ecstasy

    Daria Klimentová's sizzling chemistry with Russian dancer Vadim Muntagirov, who is nearly 20 years her junior, has reignited the prima ballerina's career - and marks a metamorphosis after her Black Swan-style torments depicted in BBC Four's Agony and Ecstasy, the gripping documentary series aired last year. There has been a metamorphosis since the 'old ballerina' allowed herself to be browbeaten ... Read more

    £3.99

  • Coxhoe & Kelloe revisited

    Coxhoe & Kelloe Revisited combines this new material with one of Bernards earlier books: Kelloe, Bowburn & Cornforth to provide a more comprehensive history and account of the area about heritage.It also includes a short history of Durham Big Meeting and the formation of the Committee that produced the new Coxhoe Drift Banner. This book also features more material from Kelloe, an amazing little ... Read more

    £8.99

  • So Much Longing in So Little Space

    The art of Edvard Munch

    Translated by Ingvild Burkey ...
    In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch’s painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist, experiencing the world through art and its influence on his own writing.As co-curator of a major new exhibition of Munch's work in Oslo, Knausgaard ... Read more

    £9.99

  • Britten's Children

    by John Bridcut ...
    Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

    The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

    by Colm Tóibín ...
    An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Tóibín__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Tóibín takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce - and examines their earliest influences: their fathers.With his inimitable wit and sensitivity, Tóibín introduces us to Wilde Senior, the ... Read more

    £4.99

  • To See Clearly

    Why Ruskin Matters

    'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one'John Ruskin - born 200 years ago, in February 1819 - was the greatest critic of his age: a critic not only of art and architecture but of society and life. But his writings - on beauty and truth, on work and leisure, on commerce and capitalism, on life and how to live it - can teach us more than ever about how to see the world around us ... Read more

    £5.49 £3.99

  • The Samurai Castle Master

    Warlord Todo Takatora

    by Chris Glenn ...
    When the samurai warlord and respected castle architect Todo Takatora died in 1630, the funeral attendants responsible for preparing his body were shocked to note that there was not a single part of his body not scarred or disfigured by sword, spear, glaive or matchlock gun wound.Todo Takatora lived a life that unfolds like a drama. Born to a small landholding samurai family, the maverick youth ... Read more

    £7.99 £5.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toulouse-Lautrec

    Paintings

    by Daniel Coenn ...
    Series series My Pocket Gallery
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator with enormous productivity - more than 1000 paintings, 5000 drawings, and 350 prints and posters. He suffered a debauchery and alcoholism and after mental and physical collapse died at the age of 37. His life has inspired numerous authors. His imaginary style is highly linear and gives huge accent to contour. He ... Read more

    £1.68

  • Tell Me Who I Am: The Story Behind the Netflix Documentary

    The story behind the hit Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother.Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin.Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had ... ... Read more

    £4.99

  • Leonardo da Vinci Mini Biography

    by eBios ...
    Series series Mini Biographies
    Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, military-engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable ... Read more

    £1.99

  • Peter Lanyon

    Modernism and the Land

    by Andrew Causey ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    British painter Peter Lanyon transformed the art of landscape, rescuing it from picturesque depictions of the English countryside and resituating it as an art form capable of expressing radical ideas. The old European tradition of landscape—mostly concerned with ownership and leisure and not the daily life of the working class—was of no interest to Lanyon. His work instead reframed the ... Read more

    £14.99

  • The Last Pre-Raphaelite

    Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination

    Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A triumph of biographical art.' Independent'Magnificent.' Guardian'Rarely are biographies both as authoritative and engaging as this.' Literary ReviewThe angels on our Ch... ... Read more

    £7.99

  • Dead Famous

    An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

    by Greg Jenner ...
    'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'[An] engaging and well-researched book... Jenner brings his material to vivid life' ObserverCelebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as ... Read more

    £3.99

  • Women Don't Owe You Pretty

    The record-breaking best-selling book every woman needs

    'THE BEAUTY MYTH' FOR THE INSTAGRAM GENERATIONWomen Don't Owe You Pretty is the ultimate book for anyone who wants to challenge the out-dated narratives supplied to us by the patriarchy.Through Florence's story you will learn how to protect your energy, discover that you are the love of your own life, and realise that today is a wonderful day to dump them.Florence Given is here to remind you that ... Read more

    £6.99

  • The Lonely City

    Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

    by Olivia Laing ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE Chosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Herald When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. ... Read more

    £6.99

  • The Book What I Wrote

    Eric, Ernie and Me

    by Eddie Braben ...
    The hilarious memoir of Britain's best-loved, highly successful comedy writer Eddie Braben, whose scripts for Morecambe and Wise catapulted the incomparable duo to stardom.The key figure behind the success of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, scriptwriter Eddie Braben has written his autobiography - with the inimitable, timeless humour, warmth and affection for Eric and Ernie of that wonderful bygone ... Read more

    £3.99