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Salla Simukka As Red As BloodSeventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson is hardly your average teenager. She lives by herself in the city of Tampere, Finland, and has a firm rule to mind nobody's business but her own...
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Derek Jacobi As Luck Would Have It ENStar of stage, screen and television, and one of only two people to be awarded two Knighthoods, Sir Derek Jacobi is one of Britain’s most distinguished actors.If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you need to be an actor, do.The world of theatre could not have been further from Derek’s childhood: an only child, born in Leytonstone, London. With his father a department store manager and his mother a secretary, his…
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Jeremy Clarkson As I was Saying ENCrikey, the world according to Clarkson's been a funny old place of late. For a while, Jeremy could be found in his normal position as the tallest man on British television but, more recently, he appears to have been usurped by a pretend elephant. But on paper the real Jeremy remains at the helm. That's as it should be. For nearly thirty years he has been fearlessly leading the charge as one the best comic writers…
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Robin Talley As I Descended ENAmnesty Honour winner Robin Talley is back with a Shakespeare-inspired story of revenge and redemption, where fair is foul, and foul is fair. Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple―but one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Golden child Delilah is a legend at exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished…
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Virginia Macgregor As Far as the StarsHow do you change what’s already written in the stars? Christopher is the sort of guy that no one notices, yet when Air catches sight of him making intricate paper birds in the airport, she can’t look away...
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Katie Alender As Dead as It Gets ENIt's been three months since Alexis helplessly witnessed Lydia Small's violent death, and all she wants is for her life to return to normal. But it seems that Lydia's angry ghost wants revenge on Alexis alone. After a girl from school disappears, it soon becomes clear that several of Alexis' friends are in danger, and that she's the only person who can save them.
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Susan Sontag As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh ENAs Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh reveals the inner life of Susan Sontag. Providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, Susan Sontag's As Conscious is Harnessed to Flesh chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at the height of her powers. As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag through the turbulent…
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Susan Sontag As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh ENAs Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh reveals the inner life of Susan Sontag. Providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, Susan Sontag's As Conscious is Harnessed to Flesh chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at the height of her powers. As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag through the turbulent…
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Alan Bradley As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust ENIt all began with that awful business about my mother, Harriet... Following the dramatic events at the conclusion of The dead in their vaulted arches and the shocking revelations about her mother, Flavia de Luce finds herself expelled from the familiar confines of Bishop's Lacey and her beloved family home, Buckshaw, and 'packed off', as she puts it, to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada. With its forbidding…
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Alan Bradley As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust ENIt all began with that awful business about my mother... Flavia de Luce's world is turned upside down when she is banished to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada - her mother Harriet's old boarding school. With its forbidding headmistress, intimidating teachers and bizarre rules, adapting to Miss Bodycote's could be a matter of life and death.But Flavia is soon on familiar ground when she is presented with a…
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Salla Simukka As Black As EbonyLumikki Andersson must uncover a dark personal secret to outwit her murderous stalker. Lumikki has a new boyfriend - easygoing, gorgeous Sampsa who adores her. But when her ex Blaze reappears, declaring his devotion, she doesn't know what to feel...
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Roshani Chokshi Aru Shah and the End of TimeBest-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations...
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J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien Artušův pád CZVe třicátých letech se J. R. R. Tolkien, veden svou profesí i zájmem o starou literaturu, pokusil přebásnit staroanglickým aliterativním veršem nesmrtelný příběh o králi Artušovi. Podle svědectví jednoho z blízkých přátel šlo o velice úspěšný pokus, ale ani nadšená chvála tohoto čtenáře nepřiměla Tolkiena k tomu, aby text dokončil. Podle všeho jej definitivně opustil v roce 1937, kdy vyšel Hobit. Text z pozůstalosti…
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David F. Travers Arts and Architecture ENWelcome to Modernism: The very best of the first five years of the groundbreaking architecture magazine From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture: emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated low-cost materials and modern design. This trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study House Program, which was championed by…
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Marc Valli Artless ENArtless presents some of the most compelling images created by contemporary artists and illustrators using the simplest of tools, such as colour pencils, crayons, watercolour, scissors and glue. Work produced in this manner represents a growing and particularly resilient trend in the visual arts world. Through individual interviews with over 50 artists, Artless looks at how and why these particular artists find the…
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Antonella Fuga Artists' Techniques and Materials ENAn artist's materials - from the broad brushstrokes of a Van Gogh oil painting, the sparkling gold leaf of a Byzantine mosaic, to the fragile translucence of a porcelain vase - are not just the results of their work. They are the physical embodiment of the artist's creative vision and a reflection of the historical context in which they were used. Artists' Techniques and Materials is an extensive and intriguing…
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Gerard-Georges Lemaire, Marc Walter, Henri-Frederic Amiel, Jean-Claude Amiel Artists' Houses ENArtists Houses offers readers the unprecedented opportunity to turn the key and enter the private homes of 14 extraordinary artists. We see where they lived and worked, entertained and created their most significant masterpieces. These important European and American artists put as much care, or more, into the design of their homes and gardens as they put into the creation of their works. Claude Monets lush garden…
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Najmamova, Humpal Artists Who Make BooksA vital survey of 32 internationally recognized artists who make books as part of their creative practice - features 500 images of these rarely seen works. The 'artist's book' has long been an important form of expression, and Artists Who Make Books showcases 32 internationally recognized artists who have integrated book production into their larger creative practice. This volume features a selection of books —…
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Susie Hodge Artists and their PetsDid you know that the great Pablo Picasso had many pets, including a white mouse and a goat? And that Andy Warhol loved his dachshunds, Salvador Dal liked ocelots and anteaters, and Georgia O'Keeffe had a passion for chows and Siamese cats? ..
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ArtistsA stunning exploration of over 80 famous artists and their fascinating lives, from Giotto to the present day. Artists: Their Lives and Works tells the inspiring stories behind the world's most famous masterpieces and their creators, including their influences, development, friendships, loves, and rivalries. Discover the often tumultuous lives of iconic artists including Raphael, Hogarth, van Gogh, O'Keeffe, Magritte…
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