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|genre=For SharingArt|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I'm going to tell you found myself looking more closely at a story about Dog, Man, Lady and couple of pictures on the Pup. They all work on an industrial site walls - in fact Dog and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives was completely taken by the sort work of digger which is dreamed about by boys large and smallBrian Lewis. Lady I searched online and the Pup run the snack bar could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and one day as they're all having something to eat, the Pup goes missingprint I wanted was ‘not available’. Man and Lady search everywhere but it's Dog's sharp ears which finally track him down Oh, dear - caught in then a branch over few doors down from the apartment, I found a fast-flowing stream. And it's Dog who works out how to rescue him. I needed 88 words to tell you that story, but Kate Prendergast does it without using gift shop with a single one stack of brand new books - and she tells it in a far more engaging way than framed print of the picture I could ever managewanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646148</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Will JonesAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title= How to Read New York: A Crash Course in Big Apple ArchitectureRed is My Heart|rating= 3.5|genre= TravelLiterary Fiction |summary=New York is home to some of the most iconic [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and instantly-recognisable pieces of architecture read in the worldmy house. The city And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is a mishmash of architectural styles, a place where Classical black and Colonial meet Renaissance white and Modernistred. The result is a glorious fusion that works perfectly Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and upon closer inspection has a plethora I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of secrets just waiting to be revealed. Welcome to New York..some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782404104</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=@dogsofinstagram1912242052|title=Dogs on InstagramO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3.5|genre=PetsArt|summary=I'm a sucker 'Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for dogs: I canbeing 't 'the first person to walk past one in the street without stopping and having a conversationmountains alone, sometimes without bothering not because he had to speak to the ownersfor work, so as a book of pictures of dogs was going miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to be right up my streetfor pleasure and adventure. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagramHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and launched just four years ago gives us this book its literary consequences, changed our view of over four hundred photographs of dogs. Originally I had 'the world'no'' intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn't even intending to read the book, just to have a quick flick through, but within five minutes I was showing other people in the office the picture of the Weimaraner riding a bicycle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452151970</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Hickley1980891117|title=The Munich Art HoardG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret LegacyA year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley
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|genre=HistoryArt|summary=One George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the most newsworthy events in modern art history happened seemingly by chanceRegency era. When tax police raided the house He was also one 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 he was seen on the train between Bavaria and Switzerland with 'most prolific, painting nearly too much' cash. The investigators had no case5, but he had something much more complex and rich – a massive legacy 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of 20th Century German and European artKing George III). But that collection had to have an origin – one Throughout most of dubious and at times nefarious beginnings, and one that could have quite a rich and convoluted background. Hickley, in these pages, gives us much in time he carefully recorded the way names of each of context as well as ironing out those convolutionshis clients, so this story and subsequently transcribed them into what is both of interest referred to Nazi historians and art scholars – as well as to those larger numbers who just like a good story told wellhis fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292574</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wade GrahamHewitt_Renoir|title=Dream CitiesRenoir's Dancer: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the WorldThe Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon|author=Catherine Hewitt
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|genre= HistoryArt|summary=Between 1950 and 2014 Deep in the rural parts of France in the world's urban population increased from 746 million 1860s, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to 3embody a full artistic period – and not just a movement at that, but a full generation of both creative and societal change.9 billion. The urbanising trend is set And if you were to continue with the United Nations predicting expect that by someone, they would like as not be male. But almost stumbling into the middle hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. She started in the century 66% of us will be city dwellerscircus that first caught her teenaged eye, a massive six billion peoplealthough her gymnastic career was short-lived. How But what she did have city planners from that was the poise to be an appealing model for some seriously important painters and a natural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and architects tried their audiences. And what she also had, much to cope with the recent surge? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from surprise of many and the past? Both distaste of some, was artistic talent of her own…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Murakami_Music|title=Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa|author=Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa|rating=3.5|genre=Art|summary=Murakami loves music, any reader of those questions are considered his could tell you as much. Norwegian Wood was named after a Beatles song (albeit one not very well known) and After Dark is framed by a music soundtrack in a brilliant display of atmospheric setting. With this, all that love is here. And like all who have a good taste in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The Worldmusic, Wade GrahamMurakami's excellent field guide to the modern worldis eclectic and very well considered. I found myself looking up musicians after reading this because I found many of his opinions quite convincing. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ravilious_Recent|title=The Recent Past|amazonukauthor=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>James Ravilious|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=James, son of the war artist Eric Ravilious, inherited his father's artistic talents. Although he was a gifted painter, his main career was to be as a photographer.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul JarvisWood_Gothic|title=Mapping the AirwaysAmerican Gothic: The Life of Grant Wood|author=Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald
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|summary=Before I start, there is nothing wrong with being an anally retentive trainspottery type. Having said that, do you see what on the front cover Who won a national prize for a crayon drawing of this first edition marks this book out three oak leaves before he was properly in his teens? Who sought acclaim as being completely an artist and utterly for came to Europe to study from the trainspottery typegreats, only to reject all they had to offer? It is the fact that the foreword is both creditedWho instinctively knew a picture of his dentist (yes, his dentist) would be more appealing and dated. Yes, unless a major change was imminent say more to people than floating water lilies and the Executive Chairman of BA frilly ballet dancers? The answer in all cases was going to be someone else within weeksGrant Wood, this book gladly states that March 2016 was when he put finger to laptop and came up with his pagepractically the most well-long contribution. Have you ever known such attention to detail? I guess it's to be expectedpainter in America at one time, when the book concerns such a singular entity as the visual history of charts and maps as used by still the airlines that became British Airwaysbest, alongside Edward Hopper, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt SewellV&A_Patchwork|title=Penguins Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Other Sea BirdsAlbert Museum
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeArt|summary=I've always been fascinated by PenguinsPatchwork is a magical craft: I think it's because they look so ''smart'' 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 striking, yet survive a backing fabric with some wadding in extreme conditions, so the opportunity to review between into a book which contains fifty penguins and other seabirds was too good to missfabric of an entirely different weight. Just Combine the pictures would two crafts and you have been enough - the minimalist watercolours something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, when there are so many different styles of street artist both crafts? One answer is to read ''Patchwork and ornithologist Matt Sewell - but SewellQuilting: A Maker's whimsical wit Guide'' which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and ability to teach without being preachy makes this a book to treasurethen delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032224</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David P ColleyRutherford_Landscape|title=Seeing the War: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs from World War IILandscape Gardens|author=Sarah Rutherford
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David HollisJenkins_100|title=Practical Landscape Painting: Materials, Techniques & ProjectsBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins|rating=4.5
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules NilssonHurst_Norfolk|title=The Hounds of FalsterboOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew WilsonBlackburn_Threads|title=Alexander McQueenThreads: Blood Beneath the SkinThe Delicate Life of John Craske|author=Julia Blackburn
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|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 familyNorwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed him, although his father told what caused him that if he wanted to sell clothes sink into a stupor, sometimes for years at a time and he should get a market stall. Determined to do it was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his'' way, Lee borrowed work had to be done on the money from a relative to enable him to attend Central St Martins after doing a tailoring apprenticeshipavailable surfaces in his home. The name 'Lee' might confuse youChair seats, window sills, but at the time McQueen began backs of doors all carried his own business wonderful pictures of the sea. Then he was claiming benefits moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and decided to use his middle name to avoid detection, most famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471131785</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin BlakeBray Titania|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures in Looking at ArtTitania and Oberon|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summaryauthor=When did you last read a children's book that absolutely flummoxed you in the way it showed or told you something you didn't know? (And please be an adult when you answer that, or else it won't be quite so impressive.) Back in 2001, Quentin Blake wasn't a Knight yet – he hadn't even got his CBE – but he did get allowed to put on his own show at the National Gallery, with other people's pictures that contain oddities, stories, unexpected detail – sparks on canvas and paper that would inspire anyone looking, of whatever age, to piece things together, work things out, ''form a narrative''. The pictures came with no major labelling, no context – just what they heldJo Manton, Phyllis Bray and some typically scratched Blake characters discussing the images as a lead-in. They were simply hung in alphabetical order, and probably could not have been more different. This then is a picture book of the most literal kind, with 26 stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Esterly|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of MakingBuckman
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David GentlemanBiesty Trains|title=In the CountryStephen Biesty's Trains|author=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty
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|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 the book upwards) want to anyone else. Now in his eighties David Gentleman is well known as watercolourist, 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 know what lies beneath the surrounding area skin which is the location for ''In The Country''you can see.|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 and loved the noise, the risk and the sheer energy of the sport - my mother less so and she quoted the noise and the strong possibility of there being 'a nasty accident' when the riders slid their motorcycles sideways. It is still on television but I'll confess They want to not having watched for many years and know how 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 memoriesworks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861830</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Winter|author=Adam Gopnik|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=In this collection of five essays, each Getting to grips with one offering in real life is quite a unique and fascinating perspective on the season of winterbig ask, Adam Gopnik takes but the reader on a captivating journey, exploring history, art and society, through next best thing is ''Romantic WinterStephen Biesty'', ''Radical Winter'', ''Recuperative Winter'', s Trains''Recreational Winter'' and ''Remembering Winter''. In each essay, Gopnik focuses on one or two central themes, whilst also touching on surrounding ideas. For example, in Romantic Winter his central topics are art and poetry, however, issues such as changing society, technology, sex and culture are also explored, in relation to these pivotal notions. He also includes two sections featuring collections of artwork to illustrate his viewpoints, which add a charming, individual touch to this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874472</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age|author=Vic Gatrell|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=It was in the eighteenth century that an area of London consisting of about half a square mile, features trains from Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden’s Piazza to Drury Lane, and down from Long Acre to all over the Strand, with Covent Garden at the very centre, became what has in modern times been recognised as the world’s first creative ‘bohemia’. This was where the cream of Britain’s significant artists, actors, poets, novelists, world and dramatists of spanning the age lived and worked, side by side early steam train (complete with cowcatcher) right through to the city’s chief market traders, craftsmen, shopkeepers, rakes, pickpockets and prostitutes. One might say that all human life was here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846146771</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Sea Monsters: The Lore and Legacy trains of Olaus Magnus's Marine Map|author=Joseph Nigg|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=A confession. When reading hardbacks I take the paper cover, if there is one, off, to keep it pristine. Sometimes there's future which can reach a second benefit, with [[Longbourn by Jo Baker]] as an example speed of having an embossed illustration underneath, or suchlike. But with this book I won430 kph and don't be alone, for even run on rails. Once the cover folds out into an amazing artwork, such as has only two extant original copies. It's a coloured replica of train reaches a large map speed of 150 kph the northern seas and Scandinavia, dating from 1539, wheels are raised and the train is in a category of three major artful scientific papers from where the whole 'here be dragons' cliché about maps comes from. Its creator, Olaus Magnus, followed it held up years later with a commentary of all the sea creatures he drew on it, but Magnus has waited centuries for this delicious volume to commentate on both together, in such a lovely fashionby magnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>
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