A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as ‘completely and utterly marvellous’. ‘Painting ……
Brings together the work of some of the world's greatest photographers. This book contains some sixty full-page reproductions, together with a critical introduction and a full…
This book presents the foundational physics underlying the generation of high intensity laser light and its interaction with matter. Comprehensive and rigorous, it describes how…
In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture. When she first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding…
The brilliantly fast and funny romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella."I let out a huge, embarrassing honk of laughter on the tube reading Wedding…
Create your own colourful dinosaurs with the Natural History Museum's new book for young dinosaur enthusiasts. It contains 15 scenes from the Palaeozoic era featuring T. rex,…
The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director and teacher has written a blunt, unsparingly honest guide to acting. In True and False David Mamet overturns conventional opinion…
In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit,…
This is a brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success. Instead of weighing up the West through its…
The acknowledged ''Queen of Crime'', P. D. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the Golden Age of crime-writing with deep psychological insight…
The fifth novel in the enthralling series starring Golden Age crime writer Josephine TeyA house that can''t restA crime that won''t fade...When Josephine inherited a remote…
A new history of the Celts that reveals how this once-forgotten people became a pillar of modern national identity in Britain, Ireland, and FranceBefore the Greeks and Romans, the…
A laugh-out-loud picture book full of elves, perfect for bedtimereading!Elves are everywhere - oh yes - right there in the park, buildingsandcastle on the beach and even causing…
In this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the…
From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Louis Pasteur, the French chemist and the father of modern…