Anywhere: the artist way (Keywords)

Painters have long observed the way in which different places have their own special light, and nowadays air travel has made it even easier to compare the light of one country or region with that of another. This book shows how an artist reacts to light in different parts of the world.

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...

Jaleesa, Kai, Ilya and Dani are online best friends, and superfans of the hit TV show City Of Night. Fantasising about the show in their chatroom, they find an escape from their troubled small-town lives. Everything changes when Chloe, make-up artist to the show's star Alice Temple, enter...

Abby Graven is a dreamer. She dreams her way through her small, lonely life - hiding back at her parents, working at the grocery store. At night, she collects tabloid clippings that taunt her with Elise - her best friend, now Hollywood's hot new starlet. When a school reunion throws Elise in ...

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 the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne busily plied his brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of modern art. With compact, intense dabs of paint and bold new approaches to light and space, he mediated th...

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...

At 26, Lillian feels trapped by life. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she expected it would. To her it seems she is just another object captured within the walls of Cloudesley, her husband's beautiful manor house tucked away high in the Chiltern Hills. But, with ...

At twenty-six, Lillian feels trapped by life. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she expected it would. To her it seems she is just another object captured within the walls of Cloudesley, her husband's beautiful manor house tucked away high in the Chiltern Hills. Bu...

Hello, gorgeous! Sixty years after Barbra Streisand made her industry debut, PEOPLE is celebrating with a look back at her life and unparalleled career in a new special edition. An Oscar-Emmy-Grammy-winning actor-director-producer-composer-singer (even her hyphens need hyphens), she is the sole...

Mo and his friend are helping out in a nursery today and learning about all about how plants grow and what they need. But can Mo stay out of trouble while he's having so much fun? Don't count on it! If a monster can understand science, anyone can! Join Mo the Monster as he discovers the basic...

If you're planning on falling in love you'd better be sure someone is there to catch you. When it comes to the confident, charismatic Caleb Parker, Sadie Lane feels the spark - the kind that comes from rubbing each other the wrong way. She's yoga pants, he's a suit. She's a tattoo arti...

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...

When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure the case and force him to testify against the firm. Eddie is not someone who is easily coerced, but when the FBI reveal that they have incr...

An internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her secret lover, Marti..n Acla, a prominent businessman. When his sudden stroke makes headlines, her world implodes; the idea of losing him is terrifying. Desperate to find a way to be present during...

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 ...

What happens when your best hope for the future is through the past? Voice-over artist Alice avoids telling the truth. It's not lying, exactly, and the freedom of reinvention makes those tough years in the past a little easier to bear. So when she meets writer Clayton Miller, she re...

Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic ...

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...

An epic graphic novel about a jealous witch, a withering curse, and one girl's journey to save her family— no matter the cost. When Vonceil's older brother, Elber, comes home to their family's Oklahoma farm after serving on the front lines of World War I, things aren't what she expects. His ...