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We are all artists as children, painting and drawing each day. Most of us stop when we get older - but David Gentleman kept going. For over 90 years he has been drawing, painting, engraving and printing, rising to become one of Britain's best-known and most loved artists. His watercolours have fi...

From Andy Warhol's buzzing Factory to Claude Monet's peaceful ponds, what better way to learn about famous artists and their work than to embark on a behind-the-scenes studio tour? This colourful, quirky search book gives children the chance to peek at the studios and workplaces of the ...

Ali Develin never had any doubts about marrying Colin, but two beautiful children and twelve years later she is overwhelmingly doubtful. Where is the man she fell in love with? Why does she not feel the same way about him anymore? Reigniting her passion for the arts, she finds a job in t...

Years before the birth of Princess Diana, a group of Amazons set out on a globe-spanning quest to find others of their kind, encountering legendary creatures and beings along the way. It's up to their leader, the stalwart Hessia, to keep them together through the many trials that lie ah...

See the world through Frida Khalo's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces. Have you ever wondered exactly what your favourite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series of books to keep and collect, creat...

See the world through Paul Cezanne's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces. Have you ever wondered exactly what your favourite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series of books to keep and collect, crea...

Discover this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel that has sold over 10 million copies worldwide 'A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Atonement It was 7 minutes after midnight. The ...

The mature students of Royal Hastings University's new art course have been trouble from day one. From acclaimed artist Alyson who seems oddly overqualified, to hapless Patrick who can barely operate design software, and city boy Cameron who blusters his way through assignments. Not to ment...

The mature students of Royal Hastings University's new art course have been trouble from day one. From acclaimed artist Alyson who seems oddly overqualified, to hapless Patrick who can barely operate design software, and city boy Cameron who blusters his way through assignments. Not to ment...

When a mysterious tower appears in the skies over England, thirteen strangers are pulled from their lives to stand before it as a countdown begins. Above the doorway is one word: ASCEND. As a grieving teacher, a reclusive artist, and a narcissistic celebrity children's author lead the oth...

Carter, Leila, Theo, Ridley, Izzy, and Ollie all felt like outsiders, until they found each other and a shared love of magic and became The Magic Misfits! Leila didn't have the easiest start, growing up in an orphanage and getting bullied for being different. But she has a super-cool secret s...

Carter, Leila, Theo, Ridley, Izzy, and Ollie all felt like outsiders, until they found each other and a shared love of magic and became The Magic Misfits! Leila didn't have the easiest start, growing up in an orphanage and getting bullied for being different. But she has a super-cool secret s...

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...

'We Are Artists' celebrates the life and work of 15 female artists from around the globe and the distinctive mark they made on the art world and beyond. Presented as a collection of engaging biographical narratives, the book reveals how each artist's unique approach and perspective prov...

Reality TV star Buck Nance incites a riot in a bar and vanishes in the melee. His agent Lane Coolman has been accidentally taken hostage by two petty criminals who now think they can turn a quick profit by ransoming an LA talent agent. The mystery of Buck’s disappearance draws in a range of c...

It was love at first taste for 15-year-old Tadhg Hickey when he drank a can of Scrumpy Jack on the night of his exam results. Straight away it provided a cure for that constant feeling of 'something wrong, something not quite right', a way of numbing anxiety and childhood trauma. He realised ...

When Clarice Beech finds her friend Peter Ramsey dead in his kitchen, she believes he's succumbed to a fatal heart attack. Peter, who lived in one of the five cottages on Magpie Row in the Lincolnshire Wolds, was a keen supporter of stray cats - which made him very unpopular with the neighb...

When Clarice Beech finds her friend Peter Ramsey dead in his kitchen, she believes he's succumbed to a fatal heart attack. Peter, who lived in one of the five cottages on Magpie Row in the Lincolnshire Wolds, was a keen supporter of stray cats - which made him very unpopular with the neighb...

Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; before Carol became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith? Beginning in 1941 and encompassing H...

In 1520, Albrecht Durer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. As the cynosure of the Renaissance, no one had painted or drawn the world like him. He had drawn a hare or a rhinoceros in the way he painted saints and madonnas. They were all ...