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|genre=SportArt|summary=It was pure serendipity: after There are few positive things which can be said about a five-hour drive we weresubstandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, annoyingly, left with an hour in trying to fill in Blakeney before we avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewis. I searched online and could have only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the keys to our holiday cottageprint I wanted was ‘not available’. There was an art exhibition in Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the church hallapartment, so we went in I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and found a display framed print of the most gorgeous picturespicture 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'd cheerfully could have bought every spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and hung them white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on our wallsthis piece, but thought that and I would have think it's possible to make do with a couple say not one page lacks the influence of greetings cards when I saw some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary=''Oh Joy for me!''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walksgives Coleridge credit for being '' the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and I couldnits literary consequences, changed our view of the world''t resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095444003X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Blackburn1980891117|title=ThreadsG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Delicate Life A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John CraskeWebley
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|genre=BiographyArt|summary=John Craske George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a fisherman, career lasting from a family of fishermen, who became too ill the 1770s to go to seathe Regency era. He was born in Sheringham on also one of the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed himmost prolific, what caused him to sink into a stupourpainting nearly 5, sometimes for years at a 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on carefully recorded the available surfaces in his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs names of each of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to embroideryclients, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirksubsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099582198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Manton, Phyllis Bray and David BuckmanHewitt_Renoir|title=Titania and OberonRenoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon|author=Catherine Hewitt
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|genre=Confident ReadersArt|summary=''Equus''Deep in the rural parts of France in the 1860s, ''Waiting for Godot'' and ''A Mid-summer Night's Dream'' you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – three very distinctive plays, and my favourite threenot just a movement at that, out but a full generation of which both creative and societal change. And if you won't often get me choosing just one. But were I to do soexpect that someone, it might actually they would like as not be male. But almost stumbling into the hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. She started in the lastcircus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what she did have from that was the poise to be an appealing model for the simple reason I would delight in playing any some seriously important painters and a natural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and all characters from ittheir audiences. YesAnd what she also had, I know Hermia and Helena look a bit implausible now – but I put it much to you stranger things happen on stage… Some the surprise of many and the strangest things involve a player himselfdistaste 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 his could tell you as much. Norwegian Wood was named after a lowly actor who gets given an ass's head Beatles song (albeit one not very well known) and After Dark is forced to be the enamoured 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 fairy queen. Itgood taste in music, Murakami's is eclectic and very well considered. I found myself looking up musicians after reading this section because I found many of the play that this book concentrates on, in his opinions quite stunning formconvincing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184365329X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ravilious_Recent|title=The British MuseumRecent Past|titleauthor=Origami, Poems and PicturesJames Ravilious
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|genre=CraftsArt|summary=Sometimes you find a delight James, son of a bookthe war artist Eric Ravilious, inherited his father's artistic talents. On an afternoon when it Although he was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origamia gifted painter, Poems and Pictures'' and I his main career was transported to Japanbe as a photographer. As the }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wood_Gothic|title suggests we're looking at =American Gothic: The Life of Grant Wood|author=Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald|rating=4.5|genre=Art|summary=Who won a national prize for a crayon drawing of three celebrated arts oak leaves before he was properly in his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist and crafts: came to Europe to study from the ancient art greats, only to reject all they had to offer? Who instinctively knew a picture of paper foldinghis dentist (yes, haiku poetry his dentist) would be more appealing and say more to people than floating water lilies and painting. I'll confess that it frilly ballet dancers? The answer in all cases was Grant Wood, practically the origami which caught my attentionmost well-known painter in America at one time, but I was surprised by and still the extent to which the rest best, alongside Edward Hopper, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappings.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=V&A_Patchwork|title=Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum|rating=4.5|genre=Art|summary=Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of the book caught my imaginationmaterial with an entirely different pattern. We begin Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with something very simple: some wadding in between into a boat fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and in case you're worriedhave something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, all the entries have a degree when there are so many different styles of difficulty (from both crafts? One answer is to read 'simple' through to Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide'tricky') which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and this one is at then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the lowest levelV&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Rutherford_Landscape|title=Landscape Gardens|author=Sarah Rutherford|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=My first experience of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I was impressed, I didn't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by the flatness of it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardens. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip to Harewood House, it was too hot a day to be corralled into the house, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hour. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Barrie_Peter|title=Peter Pan and Wendy|author=J M Barrie and Robert Ingpen|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=It's a childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John and Michael ForemanDarling and their beloved nurse, Nana the Newfoundland dog who took them to school each day. It's George Darling, their father, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the yard and the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. There's a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the boy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, the rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the lost boys and - of course - Wendy, but then it wouldn't have been a classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel of 1911 if it were otherwise.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grahame_Wind|title=Travels With My SketchbookThe Wind in The Willows|author=Kenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen
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|summary=I guess Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the best childrenWillows''s literature can do away with complete veracity, as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a little was one of the spirit, heart defining books of my childhood and character of more than sixty years after I first read the real thing, whatever book I've just recently passed it may beonto another young reader. And if that's Since the case then it definitely applies to children's literature book was first published in 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrationsfor the 1913 edition, such as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. This prolific artist leapt at a scholarship in Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of ''Winnie the US when hePooh'd completed his official, formal studies, and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving since) in 1933, as this Arthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from the golden age of book takes us to all corners illustration) in 1940 and Robert Ingpen who illustrated the centenary edition of ''The Wind in the world, and back home againWillows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704721</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyJenkins_100|title=Stephen BiestyBritain's Trains100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins
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|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boysIn the mid-twentieth century, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin railway was something which you can see. They want harked back to know how it works. Getting to grips the Victorian age with one in real life is quite a big asktrains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the next best thing twenty-first-century oil is ''Stephen Biestygiving way to electricity. It's Trains'cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we' which features trains from d all over the world and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to the trains of the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph escape their grime, were restored and don't became places to be admired, possibly even run on railslingered in. Once the train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces aloneSimon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hurst_Norfolk|title=On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=Laura CummingJohn Hurst|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=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 our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and found a display of the most gorgeous pictures. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn't resist buying it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Blackburn_Threads|title= Threads: The Vanishing Man - In Search Delicate Life of VelazquezJohn Craske|author=Julia Blackburn|rating=54
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|summary=Pitching up at an auction John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of fishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He was born in Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and picking up would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a lost masterpiece life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to sink into a pittance is the dream stupor, sometimes for most art loversyears at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. That seemingly happy circumstance happened to bookseller But John Snare at had a sale natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the available surfaces in 1845 and is his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the centrepiece sea. Then he moved on to Laura Cumming's excellent ''The Vanishing Man – In Pursuit embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of Velazquez''the evacuation at Dunkirk. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siri HustvedtBray Titania|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on ArtTitania and Oberon|author=Jo Manton, Sex Phyllis Bray and the MindDavid Buckman |rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society Art|summary= I must confess that ''Equus, Waiting for Godot and A Woman LookingMid-summer Night's Dream''– three very distinctive plays, and my favourite three, out of which you won' spoke t often get me choosing just one. But were I to me on a profounddo so, it might actually be the last, intimate levelfor the simple reason that I would delight in playing any and all characters from it. This is in part due Yes, I know Hermia and Helena look a bit implausible now – but I put it to you stranger things happen on stage… Some of the apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists strangest things involve a player himself, a lowly actor who love art gets given an ass's head and also love science in is forced to be enamoured of a world which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusivefairy queen. What Hustvedt suggests in ''A Woman LookingIt'' is that it is s this section of the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and play that a cohesivethis book concentrates on, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplinesquite stunning form. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate PrendergastBM_Origami|title=Dog on a Digger: Origami, Poems and Pictures|author=The Tricky IncidentBritish Museum
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|genre=For SharingArt|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet Idiscovered 'm going to tell you a story about Dog'Origami, Man, Lady Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the Pup. They all work on an industrial site - in fact Dog title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and Man live there in a caravan crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and Man drives painting. I'll confess that it was the sort of digger origami which is dreamed about caught my attention, but I was surprised by boys large and small. Lady and the Pup run extent to which the rest of the snack bar book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and one day as theyin case you're worried, all having something the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to eat, 'tricky') and this one is at the Pup goes missinglowest level. Man and Lady search everywhere but it}}'s Dog{{Frontpage|isbn=Foreman_Travel|title=Travels With My Sketchbook|author=Michael Foreman|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=I guess the best children's sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in literature can do away with complete veracity, as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a branch over a fast-flowing streamlittle of the spirit, heart and character of the real thing, whatever it may be. And if that's the case then itdefinitely applies to children's Dog who works out how to rescue himliterature illustrations, such as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. I needed 88 words This prolific artist leapt at a scholarship in the US when he'd completed his official, formal studies, and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving since, as this book takes us to tell you that storyall corners of the world, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a single one - and she tells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever manageback home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646148</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Will JonesBiesty Trains|title= How to Read New York: A Crash Course in Big Apple ArchitectureStephen Biesty's Trains|author=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty|rating= 5|genre= TravelArt|summary=New York is home Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to some of know what lies beneath the most iconic and instantly-recognisable pieces of architecture skin which you can see. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one in the world. The city real life is quite a mishmash of architectural stylesbig ask, a place where Classical and Colonial meet Renaissance and Modernist. The result but the next best thing 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 Instagram|rating=3.5|genre=Pets|summary=I'm a sucker for dogs: I can't walk past one in Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over the street without stopping world and having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak spanning the early steam train (complete with cowcatcher) right through to the owners, so trains of the future which can reach a book speed of pictures of dogs was going to be right up my street. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley 430 kph and launched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs. Originally I had ''no'' intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasndon't even intending to read run on rails. Once the book, just to have train reaches a quick flick through, but within five minutes I was showing other people in speed of 150 kph the office wheels are raised and the picture of the Weimaraner riding a bicycletrain is held up by magnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452151970</amazonuk>
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