Anywhere: the artist way (Keywords)

After every war there are stories that are locked away like bluebottles in drawers and kept silent. But sometimes the past can return: in the smell of carbolic soap, in whispers darting through a village after mass, in the colour of an undelivered letter. Jeanne Nerin and Marie-Angèle Baudr...

Developed for the younger set (4-6 year olds) and targeting one of the most critical developmental periods for children, Art Lab for Little Kids is the perfect book for both parents and teachers who are seeking enriching and unique experiences to offer this age group. As in Susan Schwake's...

For years, Julia Cameron was asked by devotees of The Artist's Way if she would consider writing a manual for children, so that they too could experience the same transformative experience of discovering their creativity. As her daughter begins to have children herself, Julia turned back to...

The Draw 50 series will teach you how to draw all your favourite things. Using a simple step by step method, even the most inexperienced artist can produce lively and realistic images. This book contains 50 detailed illustrations of cats.

This series will teach you how to draw all your favourite things. Using a simple step-by-step method, even the most inexperienced artist can provide lively and realistic images.

A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of 'Moby Dick: Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. It is ceaseless ch...

'The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.' Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of thr...

33rd studio album by the American recording artist. Featuring all new material, the album debuted at #8 in the UK Albums Chart. The album features the tracks 'The Gold Standard', 'Breakfast Can Wait' and 'Way Back Home'.

Odeline Milk is a strange young lady from the suburbs. She is a woman with an obsession - you can guess what it is by the way she dresses: white collarless shirt, a waistcoat and billowing black trousers, the bowler hat. She's on her way to London, to make her name as a great mime arti...

In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into a landscape of shadows, spectres and great strangeness. Six years later, after Deakin's early death, Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the art...

Former Chief Inspector of Homicide, Armand Gamache, has found a peace he'd never imagined possible, away from the front line of the police and in the tranquil village of Three Pines. But when his friend Clara Morrow asks for help, he can't bring himself to refuse her, despite the old woun...

Thomas Maggs, the son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast in 1914. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. Life is quiet—shaped by the seasons, fishing and farming and the summer visitors. Then one day a mysterious...

When Ella married the handsome, celebrated artist Sebastian Montclair at just 19 she was madly in love. Now, those blissful years of marriage have turned into the very definition of an unconventional set-up. Separated in every way but distance, Sebastian resides in an outhouse across the...

Popular teacher and artist Alena Hennessy takes an open, unintimidating approach to painting, encouraging beginners to play, experiment, and discover their own personal style. She offers simple step-by-step instructions, tips on tools and materials, and 50 illustrated creativity prompts, from w...

How does the stuff we see in art galleries or the middle of roundabouts come to be made and valued? Drawing on his life as an artist, Grayson Perry sets off to explore the boundaries and tensions at the heart of modern art, with many visual aids along the way. From the slippery su...

Auburn Reed has her entire life mapped out. Her goals are in sight and there's no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn't expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry. For once, Auburn takes a risk...

Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist. Leading expressionists included Wassily Kandinsky, George Grosz, Franz Marc, and Amadeo Modigliani.

A portrait opens a window into a person's life: who they were and wanted to be, who the artist saw and how everyone else looked on. From the divine paintings of Elizabeth I to the iconic photograph of 'bulldog' Churchill; from Victorian portraits of dead children to Hockney's of his elder...

Former Chief Inspector of Homicide, Armand Gamache, has found a peace he'd never imagined possible, away from the front line of the police and in the tranquil village of Three Pines. But when his friend Clara Morrow asks for help, he can't bring himself to refuse her, despite the old woun...

Superman has been called many things, from the defender of truth, justice and the American way to the Big Blue Boy Scout. But now he is being called something he has never been called before: a threat to all humanity. Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo - the acclaimed team who bro...