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|summary=Trains look imposing, There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but true fans (little boysthis time, usually from about three years old in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and upwards) want to know what lies beneath was completely taken by the skin which you can seework of Brian Lewis. They want to know how it worksI searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Getting to grips with one in real life is quite Oh, dear - then a big ask, but the next best thing is ''Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains few doors down from all over the world and spanning the early steam train (complete apartment, I found a gift shop with cow catcher) right through to the trains of the future which can reach a speed stack of 430 kph brand new books - and don't even run on rails. Once the train reaches a speed framed print of 150 kph the wheels are raised picture I wanted.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the train is held up by magnetic forces aloneinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Cumming1912242052|title= The Vanishing Man - In Search of VelazquezO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=53

|summary=Pitching up at an auction and picking up a lost masterpiece ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a pittance is the dream miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for most art loverspleasure and adventure. That seemingly happy circumstance happened to bookseller John Snare at a sale in 1845 His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and is its literary consequences, changed our view of the centrepiece to Laura Cumming's excellent ''The Vanishing Man – In Pursuit of Velazquezworld''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587041</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siri Hustvedt1980891117|title= G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and year in the Mindlife of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society Art|summary= I must confess that ''A Woman Looking'' spoke to me on George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a profound, intimate level. This is in part due career lasting from the 1770s to the apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists who love art and Regency era. He was also love science in a world which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusiveone of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). What Hustvedt suggests in ''A Woman Looking'' is Throughout most of that it is time he carefully recorded the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and that a cohesivenames of each of his clients, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplinessubsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate PrendergastHewitt_Renoir|title=Dog on a DiggerRenoir's Dancer: The Tricky IncidentSecret Life of Suzanne Valadon|author=Catherine Hewitt|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingArt|summary=I'm going Deep in the rural parts of France in the 1860s, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to tell you embody a full artistic period – and not just a story about Dogmovement at that, Man, Lady and the Pup. They all work on an industrial site - in fact Dog and Man live there in but a caravan and Man drives the sort full generation of digger which is dreamed about by boys large both creative and smallsocietal change. Lady and the Pup run the snack bar and one day as they're all having something And if you were to eatexpect that someone, they would like as not be male. But almost stumbling into the Pup goes missinghedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. Man and Lady search everywhere but it's Dog's sharp ears which finally track him down - She started in the circus that first caught in a branch over a fasther teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-flowing streamlived. And it's Dog who works out how But what she did have from that was the poise to be an appealing model for some seriously important painters and a natural beauty and figure to appeal to rescue himboth them and their audiences. I needed 88 words And what she also had, much to tell you that storythe surprise of many and the distaste of some, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a single one - and she tells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646148</amazonuk>was artistic talent of her own…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Will JonesMurakami_Music|title= How to Read New YorkAbsolutely on Music: A Crash Course in Big Apple ArchitectureConversations with Seiji Ozawa|ratingauthor= 5|genre= Travel|summary=New York is home to some of the most iconic and instantly-recognisable pieces of architecture in the world. The city is a mishmash of architectural styles, a place where Classical and Colonial meet Renaissance Haruki Murakami and Modernist. The result is a glorious fusion that works perfectly and upon closer inspection has a plethora of secrets just waiting to be revealed. Welcome to New York...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404104</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=@dogsofinstagram|title=Dogs on InstagramSeiji Ozawa

|genre=PetsArt|summary=I'm Murakami loves music, any reader of his could tell you as much. Norwegian Wood was named after a sucker for dogs: I can't walk past Beatles song (albeit one in the street without stopping not very well known) and having After Dark is framed by a conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak to the owners, so music soundtrack in a book brilliant display of pictures of dogs was going to be right up my streetatmospheric setting. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagramWith this, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and launched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogsall that love is here. Originally I had ''no'' intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn't even intending to read the book, just to And like all who have a quick flick throughgood taste in music, but within five minutes Murakami's is eclectic and very well considered. I found myself looking up musicians after reading this because I was showing other people in the office the picture found many of the Weimaraner riding a bicyclehis opinions quite convincing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452151970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine HickleyRavilious_Recent|title=The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret LegacyRecent Past|author=James Ravilious|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryArt|summary=One James, son of the most newsworthy events in modern art history happened seemingly by chancewar artist Eric Ravilious, inherited his father's artistic talents. When tax police raided the house of an aged man in Munich it was because they assumed he had been moving too much money about and paying no tax – this six months after Although he was seen on the train between Bavaria and Switzerland with 'nearly too much' cash. The investigators had no case, but he had something much more complex and rich – a massive legacy of 20th Century German and European art. But that collection had to have an origin – one of dubious and at times nefarious beginningsgifted painter, and one that could have quite a rich and convoluted background. Hickley, in these pages, gives us much in the way of context as well as ironing out those convolutions, so this story is both of interest his main career was to Nazi historians and art scholars – be as well as to those larger numbers who just like a good story told wellphotographer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wade GrahamWood_Gothic|title=Dream CitiesAmerican Gothic: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the WorldThe Life of Grant Wood|author=Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald

|genre= HistoryArt|summary=Between 1950 Who won a national prize for a crayon drawing of three oak leaves before he was properly in his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist and 2014 came to Europe to study from the world's urban population increased from 746 million greats, only to 3.9 billion. The urbanising trend is set reject all they had to continue with the United Nations predicting that by the middle offer? Who instinctively knew a picture of the century 66% of us will his dentist (yes, his dentist) would be city dwellers, a massive six billion more appealing and say more to people. How have city planners than floating water lilies and architects tried to cope with the recent surgefrilly ballet dancers? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from The answer in all cases was Grant Wood, practically the past? Both of those questions are considered most well-known painter in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The WorldAmerica at one time, Wade Graham's excellent field guide to and still the modern best, alongside Edward Hopper, at presenting his worldminus any Modernist trappings. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul JarvisV&A_Patchwork|title=Mapping the AirwaysPatchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum

|summary=Before I start, there Patchwork is nothing wrong a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with being some wadding in between into a fabric of an anally retentive trainspottery typeentirely different weight. Having said that, do you see what on Combine the front cover of this first edition marks this book out as being completely two crafts and utterly for the trainspottery type? It is the fact that the foreword is both creditedyou have something more than magical, and datedoccasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. Yes, unless a major change was imminent and the Executive Chairman of BA was going But where to be someone else within weeksstart, this book gladly states that March 2016 was when he put finger there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to laptop read ''Patchwork and came up with his page-long contribution. Have you ever known such attention to detail? I guess itQuilting: A Maker's to be expected, when the book concerns such a singular entity Guide'' which looks - as the visual history of charts cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and maps as used then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the airlines that became British AirwaysV&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654644</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt SewellRutherford_Landscape|title=Penguins and Other Sea Birds|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I've always been fascinated by Penguins: I think it's because they look so ''smart'' and striking, yet survive in extreme conditions, so the opportunity to review a book which contains fifty penguins and other seabirds was too good to miss. Just the pictures would have been enough - the minimalist watercolours of street artist and ornithologist Matt Sewell - but Sewell's whimsical wit and ability to teach without being preachy makes this a book to treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032224</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLandscape Gardens|author=David P Colley|title=Seeing the War: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs from World War IISarah Rutherford

|genre=HistoryArt|summary=As anybody could tell, My first experience of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a still photograph is only part of the truthteenager and whilst I was impressed, if that. There is a beforehand we donI didn't see, and an after we can only fantasise about unless we know otherwisereally like it. Take I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by the famous image flatness of wartime grunts pushing the flag pole upright – an icon of the War in the Pacific for the US soldiers, it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and the films made about Iwo Jima sinceit was official: I was off big gardens. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. But other images of On a trip to Harewood House, it was too hot a day to be corralled into the war have been just as long-lastinghouse, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me the people in opportunity to walk the photos don't always have movies made of their full story arcgrounds for over an hour. This book is a collection of the images, I was completely won over and a corrective to that narrative lack, giving much more devotee of a full biography with which Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to pay tributeput him in context.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611687268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barrie_Peter|title=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Peter Pan and Eng Gee FanWendy|titleauthor=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida KahloJ M Barrie and Robert Ingpen

|genre=Emerging ReadersArt|summary=Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico. When she was It's a young schoolgirl she contracted polio childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John and was left with a leg which was ''skinny as a rake''Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, but she bore Nana the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being different. Then one Newfoundland dog who took them to school each day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car. She was badly injured and even It's George Darling, their father, who makes the mistake when she was over he locks Nana in the worst she still had to rest in bed yard and filled the time children are whisked away to Neverland by drawing pictures, including a self portraitPeter Pan and Tinkerbell. Eventually she showed her pictures to There's a famous artist - Diego Rivera - wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the boy who liked never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, the picturesrather unpleasant fairy, ''Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the lost boys and- of course - Wendy, but then it wouldn'' Frida. They married t have been a classic since the original stage production in 1904 and Rivera encouraged Frida's paintingthe novel of 1911 if it were otherwise. She exhibited, eventually in New York, to great acclaim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jackie MorrisGrahame_Wind|title= The Wild Swans|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The most well known version of the wild swans is probably the one penned by Hans Andersen. This extended retelling by Jackie Morris adds depth, emotional resonance and a number of new twists to the tale. As in most versions, Eliza and her brothers live a happy and privileged life until their father's remarriage brings jealousy, mistrust and trouble Wind in its wake. The brothers are magically changed into wild swans and it is up to brave Eliza to rescue them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805361</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWillows|author= Stephen Hickman|title= The Art of Stephen Hickman|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Stephen Hickman has been a well known artist in the Fantasy Kenneth Grahame and Science Fiction worlds for a number of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and Larry Niven. His paintings are vibrant, kinetic, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditional, and yet modern. ''The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintings, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lewis Carroll, Mark Burstein (editor) and Salvador Dali|title=Alice's Adventures in WonderlandIngpen

|genre=Confident ReadersArt|summary=If you donKenneth Grahame't know s ''The Wind in the Willows'' was one of the story now, then where have you been for a hundred defining books of my childhood and fifty more than sixty years? A young girl sees a hurrying white rabbit, follows it, falls down a hole, fails to recognise after I first read the book I'stranger danger' in partaking of random foods and drinks ve just because of a label on them, nearly drowns a whole menagerie of animals in a lake of her own tears, takes advice from someone on drugs, plays cards, or croquet, or both or neither, and wakes up to find recently passed it all a dreamonto another young reader. Someone else tried out such gibberish on a young girl, wrote it down Since the book was first published in a flurry, made a hugely successful name 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for himselfthe 1913 edition, and woke up to find even at this remove that most people Ernest H Shepard (unlike me) adore perhaps better known for his illustrations of ''Winnie the thing. But itPooh''s not just for now) in 1933, its 150th birthday, that Arthur Rackham (possibly the work gets reprinted. In the 1960s, someone came up with leading illustrator from the idea to put the esoteric, surreal and daft mind golden age of Salvador Dali book illustration) in cahoots with the esoteric, surreal and daft world of Carroll's Alice, 1940 and Robert Ingpen who illustrated the result was a very rare and valuable centenary edition – a box set of illustrated booklets, perfectly suited to ''The Wind in the very surrealistic 105th birthday. Since getting sight of one is like seeing a flat clock in DaliWillows's pictures, this decent hardback replication is the nearest you'll get to owning one of the most special of Alice editions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0691170029</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David HollisJenkins_100|title=Practical Landscape Painting: Materials, Techniques & ProjectsBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins|rating=4.5

|summary=Almost any of us can visit In the countryside and capture mid-twentieth century, the railway was something which harked back to the view in our memory or on our camera Victorian age with comparatively consummate ease. However capturing it in paint is more difficult trains being supplanted by cars and yet something some of us (me included) dream of. It planes, but steam was therefore with great excitement that I picked up this compact book of seven lessons being replaced by oil, even then and in landscape painting. As I believe (with good evidence) that I have the artistic ability of a house brick, it would be a challenge but I also have a dream twenty-first-century oil is giving way to followelectricity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402802</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Christopher Dell|title=Mythology: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined Worlds|rating=4.5|genre=Spirituality It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and Religion|summary=What does a rainbow mean to you? How would you explain the creation of the world if you had no science stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as suchpossible, or the changing of the seasons? What other kinds of natures – chaotic trickery, evil personae or even the characteristics of goats – people your world? And why is it that the answers man and woman have collectively formed keen to such questions have been so similar across the oceans and across the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at the mythologies that formed those answersescape their grime, were restored and locks on became places to a multitude of subjects – bloodbe admired, music, godly activity – to show us what possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has followedchosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules NilssonHurst_Norfolk|title=The Hounds of FalsterboOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst

|summary=I It was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to admitour holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, I wasn't so we went in - and found a huge fan display of maths at schoolthe most gorgeous pictures. Maybe if I'd had this book when I was a childcheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have been. to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'This is not a Maths Book' cleverly bridges the gap between maths and art and teaches kids how to make beautiful patterns and shapes by using mathematical principles. We learn about parabolic curves, PascalI couldn's triangle, the stomachion, tesselation and 3D drawings. Because the pages are interactive and hands-on, kids are learning the rules of maths without realising t resist buying it. After all, there is no reason why maths shouldn't be fun!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402055</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew WilsonBlackburn_Threads|title=Alexander McQueenThreads: Blood Beneath the SkinThe Delicate Life of John Craske|author=Julia Blackburn

|genre=BiographyArt|summary=On the face John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of it Lee McQueen might not have seemed like the ideal candidate for greatness in the world of haute couturefishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He was born in Sheringham on the youngest son of an East London taxi driver, but there was history north Norfolk coast in 1881 and would eventually die in the rag trade within the family, although his father told him that if he wanted to sell clothes he should get Norwich hospital in 1943 after a market stalllife which could have been defined by ill health. Determined to do it ''his'' wayThere were various explanations for what ailed him, Lee borrowed the money from a relative to enable what caused him to attend Central St Martins after doing sink into a tailoring apprenticeship. The name 'Lee' might confuse youstupor, but sometimes for years at the a time McQueen began his own business and he was claiming benefits and decided to use his middle name to avoid detection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471131785</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Quentin Blake|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures in Looking at Art|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When did you last read a children's book that absolutely flummoxed you in the way it showed or told you something you didnon occasions described as 't know? (And please be an adult when you answer that, or else it wonimbecile't be quite so impressive.) Back in 2001But John had a natural artistic talent, Quentin Blake wasn't a Knight yet – he hadn't even got albeit that his CBE – but he did get allowed work had to put be done on the available surfaces in his own show at home. Chair seats, window sills, the National Gallery, with other people's backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures that contain oddities, stories, unexpected detail – sparks of the sea. Then he moved on canvas and paper that would inspire anyone looking, of whatever age, to piece things together, work things outembroidery, ''form a narrative''. The producing wonderful pictures came with no major labelling, no context – just what they held, and some typically scratched Blake characters discussing of the images as a leadNorfolk coast -in. They were simply hung in alphabetical orderand, most famously, and probably could not have been more different. This then is a picture book of the most literal kind, with 26 storiesevacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David EsterlyBray Titania|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of MakingTitania and Oberon|author=Jo Manton, Phyllis Bray and David Buckman

|genre=AutobiographyArt|summary=Bouncing between his studio in upstate New York ''Equus, Waiting for Godot and A Mid-summer Night's Dream'' – three very distinctive plays, and the sites my favourite three, out of various English sojourns, woodcarver David Esterlywhich you won's seems t often get me choosing just one. But were I to do so, it might actually be an idyllic existence. Yet it's not all cosy cottages the last, for the simple reason that I would delight in the snow playing any and watching geese and coyotes when he looks up all characters from his workbenchit. There is an element Yes, I know Hermia and Helena look a bit implausible now – but I put it to you stranger things happen on stage… Some of hard-won retreat from the trials of life in this memoirstrangest things involve a player himself, but at the same time there is a lowly actor who gets given an argument for the essential difficulty of the artistass's life. 'Carvers are starvers,' a wizened English carver once told him. Certainly there head and is no great fortune forced to be won from enamoured of a profession as obscure as limewood carvingfairy queen. It's this section of the play that this book concentrates on, but the rewards outweigh the hard graft for Esterlyin quite stunning form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=It might be simplest if I begin by telling you what this book is ''not''. It's not a book of beautiful photographs (with some supporting text) of the places you'll almost certainly want to visit if you're visiting Edinburgh as a tourist. If that's what you want then there are dozens of such books available all over the city at a fraction of the cost of ''A Work of Beauty''. This might have the look of a coffee table book (and it would certainly look impressive there) but it has a lot more depth and interest than you might expect. This is a book of Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh, the city he walks around every day, constantly seeing something new, something else with a story to tell.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1902419863</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBM_Origami|title=Beautiful Patterns|author=Various Authors|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=If you are going to make a colouring book aimed at adults I say do it 100% and go all out. You can keep your minimalist landscapes or your naïve animals; give me a page packed to the gills with something that needs filling in. This can make a creative colouring book for grownups feel more like a military operationOrigami, but at least you will have fun doing it Poems and improve your skills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432787</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Summers of DiscontentPictures|author=Raymond Tallis and Julian SpaldingThe British Museum

|summary=Raymond Tallis is what some people may refer to as Sometimes you find a delight of a Renaissance Manbook. He is a doctor (specificallyOn an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, a neurologist)Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, a philosopherhaiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a poet boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a cultural critic. degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky'Summers of Discontent: The Purpose of ) and this one is at the Arts Todaylowest level. }}'{{Frontpage|isbn=Foreman_Travel|title=Travels With My Sketchbook|author=Michael Foreman|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=I guess the best children' s literature can do away with complete veracity, as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a collection little of excerpts from Tallis’s numerous other worksthe spirit, extracted heart and collated character of the real thing, whatever it may be. And if that's the case then it definitely applies to children's literature illustrations, such as those provided close on two hundred times by Julian Spalding – curator and Tallis’ contemporary[[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. It’s This prolific artist leapt at a testament to scholarship in the free-flowingUS when he'd completed his official, formal studies, all-encompassing way in which Tallis writes and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that these excerpts sit next he's never stopped moving since, as this book takes us to each other seamlessly; they feel like one complete discussionall corners of the world, which is an achievement in itselfand back home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524405</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David GentlemanBiesty Trains|title=In the CountryStephen Biesty's Trains|author=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty

|summary=I had no intention of reading ''In The Country''. I opened it simply to see what it was likeTrains look imposing, but by the time that I shut it again I was nearly halfway through true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and I had no intention of giving upwards) want to know what lies beneath the book skin which you can see. They want to anyone elseknow how it works. Now Getting to grips with one in his eighties David Gentleman real life is well known as watercolouristquite a big ask, specialising in landscapes. He's based in London but also has a home in Suffolk in the village of Huntingfield and it's this house, the village and the surrounding area which next best thing is the location for ''In The CountryStephen Biesty's Trains'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095715285X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeff Scott and Rachael Adams|title=Strictly Shale: Circling British Speedway|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=When I was young I remember Speedway being a regular item on Saturday sport programmes on television. My father was an aficionado ' which features trains from all over the world and loved spanning the noise, early steam train (complete with cowcatcher) right through to the risk and trains of the sheer energy future which can reach a speed of the sport - my mother less so 430 kph and she quoted don't even run on rails. Once the noise and the strong possibility train reaches a speed of there being 'a nasty accident' when 150 kph the riders slid their motorcycles sideways. It is still on television but I'll confess to not having watched for many years wheels are raised and it was for this reason that Jeff Scott's ''Strictly Shale'' achieved the unusual feat of both being an eye opener and bringing back long-forgotten memoriestrain is held up by magnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861830</amazonuk>