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lives of the artists
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art
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music
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poetry
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architecture
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sculpture
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ruskin
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photography
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fashion
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design
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drawing
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film
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jan morris
48
history
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nature and gardens
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literature
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world fiction
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language
59
spirituality
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middle-east political
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arab world historical
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politics and society
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traveller’s history guides
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travellers’ wildlife guides
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mcgilchrist’s greek islands
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archaeology
78
travel
80
food and wine
84
ruth sanderson children’s books
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children’s books
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the sleep quilt
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did you see the crocodile?
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fantasy
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index by title
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distribution information
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LIVES OF THE ARTISTS This series, published by Pallas Athene, presents lives of great artists by their contemporaries in a beautiful small format, richly illustrated and introduced by a leading scholar. Many of the texts have not been available for years – or even centuries – and in some cases have never been translated into English. Ideal for the general reader, the student or the researcher. Each volume 115 x 145 mm, between 80 and 268 pages, with 30-90 colour illustrations.
lives of titian by Vasari, Aretino, Speroni, Priscianese and Dolce introduced by Carlo Corsato 978 1 84368 171 7
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Titian (c. 1488-1576) was recognized very early on as the leading painter of his generation in Venice. Starting in the studio of the aged Giovanni Bellini, Titian, with his contemporary Giorgione, almost immediately started to expand the range of what was possible in painting, converting Bellini’s statuesque style into something far more impressionistic and romantic. This restless spirit of innovation and improvisation never left him, and during his long life he experimented with a number of different styles, the brushwork of his last great paintings showing a mysterious poetry that has never been equalled.
lives of tintoretto by Vasari, El Greco, Aretino, Boschini, Calmo, Borghini and Franco introduced by Carlo Corsato 978 1 84368 172 4 £9.99
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The most exhilarating painter of the Renaissance and arguably of the whole of western art, Tintoretto was known as Il Furioso because of the attack and energy of his style. His vaunting ambition is recorded in the inscription he placed in his studio: il disegno di Michelangelo ed il colorito di Tiziano (‘Michelangelo’s drawing and Titian’s colour’). Unavailable in any form for many years, these biographies have been newly edited for this edition. They are introduced by the scholar Carlo Corsato, who places each in its artistic and literary context. Approximately 87 pages of colour illustrations, including two foldouts, cover the full range of Tintoretto’s astonishing output.
lives of leonardo by Vasari, Bandello, Geronimo, Cassiano and others. introduced by Charles Robertson 978 1 84368 173 1
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As one of the greatest exponents of painting of his time, Leonardo was celebrated by his fellow Florentine Vasari (who was nevertheless responsible for covering over the great fresco of the Battle of Anghiari with his own painting). Vasari’s carefully researched life of Leonardo remains one of the main sources of our knowledge , and is printed here together with the three other early biographies, and important letters by Leonardo and others. Personal reminiscences by the novelist Bandello, and humanist Saba di Castiglione, round out the picture of the quintessential Renaissance man.
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italy the life of raphael, by Giorgio Vasari introduced by Jill Burke new edn 2018 978 1 84368 156 4 £8.99
by Giorgio Vasari introduced by David Hemsoll new edn 2018 978 1 84368 157 1 £9.99
the life of michelangelo
dialogues with michelangelo
by Ascanio Condivi introduced by Charles Robertson
by Francisco de Holanda introduced by David Hemsoll
2019
2019
REVISED 978 1 84368 159 5 EDN £9.99 FORTHCOMING
978 1 84368 160 1 £8.99
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the life of beccafumi
lives of veronese
by Giorgio Vasari introduced by Jennifer Sliwka
by Vasari, Borghini and Ridolfi introduced by Xavier F. Salomon
2013
new edn 2014
978 1 84368 028 4 £7.99
978 1 84368 097 0 £9.99
lives of adam elsheimer
the lives of caravaggio
by Mander, Mancini, Sandrart, Baglione and Le Brun introduced by Claire Pace
by Mancini, Baglione and Bellori introduced by Helen Langdon
2007
978 1 84368 138 0 £8.99
978 1 84368 013 0 £7.99
lives of giovanni bellini by Vasari, Ridolfi, Boschini and with the d’Este correspondence introduced by Davide Gasparotto 2018 978 1 84368 149 6 £9.99
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new edn 2016
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england lives of gainsborough by Philip Thicknesse, William Jackson and Sir Joshua Reynolds introduced by Anthony Mould 2019 978 1 84368 166 3 £8.99
NEW One of the best loved painters in English history, Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was also one of the most personally engaging. Bon vivant, wit, amateur and enthusiastic musician, he charmed sitters and friends alike. His ebullient, if not always reliable, personality comes to life in these two memoirs, written by two very different friends. William Jackson, an organist from Exeter, wrote a considered account of the man he knew as much from music as from art. Phillip Thicknesse was one of the most irascible and eccentric figures of the eighteenth century; he claimed to have discovered Gainsborough and certainly knew him intimately for many years, as he is keen to prove. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough’s great rival, gives a rich, thoughtful and touchingly generous account of Gainsborough’s art.
memoirs of sir joshua reynolds
a memoir of george stubbs
by Joseph Farington introduced by Martin Postle
by Ozias Humphry introduced by Anthony Mould
2005
2005
978 1 84368 001 7 £9.99
978 1 84368 002 4 £8.99
a memoir of samuel palmer
millais: a sketch
by A. H. Palmer and F. H. Stephens introduced by Will Vaughan 2019
preceded by the artist’s thoughts on our art of today by M. H. Spielmann introduced by Jason Rosenfeld
REVISED 978 1 84368 024 6 EDN £8.99 FORTHCOMING
2008
julia margaret cameron
life of shakespeare
by herself, Virginia Woolf, and Roger Fry introduction and notes by Tristram Powell
by Nicholas Rowe introduced by Charles Nicholl
2016 978 1 84368 121 2 £9.99
978 1 84368 034 5 £8.99
2009 978 1 84368 056 7 £6.99
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france recollections of henri rousseau by Wilhelm Uhde introduced by Nancy Ireson new edn 2018 978 1 84368 162 5 £8.99
looking at manet by Emile Zola introduced by Robert Lethbridge new edn 2018 978 1 84368 158 8 £9.99
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memoir of vincent van gogh
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memories of degas
by Jo van Gogh-Bonger introduced by Martin Gayford
by George Moore and Walter Sickert. introduced by Anna Gruetzner Robins
new edn 2018
new edn 2019
978 1 84368 155 7 £9.99
978 1 84368 174 8 £8.99
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noa noa
auguste rodin
by Paul Gauguin introduced by Jean Loize
by Rainer Maria Rilke introduced by Alexandra Parigoris
2010
2018
978 1 84368 061 1 £8.99
978 1 84368 124 3 £8.99
lives of rembrandt
the lives of rubens
by Baldinucci, Houbraken and Sandrart introduced by Charles Ford
by Bellori, Sandrart, de Piles introduced by Jeremy Wood
low countries
new edn 2014 978 1 84368 104 5 £8.99
spain lives of velazquez by Francisco Pacheco and Antonio Palomino introduced by Michael Jacobs new edn 2018 978 1 84368 167 0 £9.99
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2005 978 1 84368 022 2 NEW EDN £8.99 FORTCHOMING SUMMER 2019
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‘the most fortunate man of his day’ sir richard wallace: connoisseur, collector, philanthropist by Suzanne Higgott The Wallace Collection 2018 PB 235 x 197 mm 428 pp Over 490 illustrations 978 0 99548 613 3 £45 The Wallace Collection is perhaps the greatest single art collection ever gifted to a nation. That this came about is due to Sir Richard Wallace. Born in 1818, Wallace was an exceptionally generous and empathetic philanthropist during a period renowned for its strong philanthropic ethos. He was already an acknowledged connoisseur when, in 1870, he unexpectedly inherited the celebrated art collection of Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, together with great wealth. This remarkable windfall enabled him to indulge his twin passions: collecting, and enriching public education through art. Although he died in 1890 without having bequeathed his collection at Hertford House in London to the nation, his French widow, Lady Wallace, was undoubtedly fulfilling his wishes in doing so on her death in 1897. This is the first book exclusively dedicated to Sir Richard Wallace. Lavishly illustrated with more than 490 images, many never before reproduced, it includes much new information about Wallace’s mysterious origins and his fascinating life in England, Ireland and France. Suzanne Higgott is Curator of Glass, Limoges Painted Enamels, Earthenware and Early Furniture at the Wallace Collection in London.
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edouard vuillard: the poetry of the everyday by Belinda Thomson and Chris Stephens The Holburne Museum 2019 PB 138 x 138 mm 80 pp 43 full-colour illustrations 978 0 90367 917 6 £14.95
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During the 1890s and early 1900s Édouard Vuillard (1868– 1940) produced a body of work that combines intimate subject matter with abstract form through the simplification of pictorial elements and observation of decorative fabrics and wallpapers. Through these devices Vuillard developed an art that is unashamedly decorative and yet always replete with subtle suggestions of deeper meanings. In balancing form and content, psychological drama and abstraction, his pictures are about as close to poetry as any artist’s, and all the more brilliant for their understatement and the near imperceptibility of their craft. Accompanying an exhibition at the Holburne Museum, this book offers a fresh look at the early career of this much-loved artist. Belinda Thomson is a freelance art historian and Honorary Professor in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in late nineteenth-century French painting, particularly Gauguin and the Nabis, she published a monograph on Vuillard in 1988 (Phaidon). In 1991-2 she curated the Vuillard exhibition for the South Bank Centre which was seen in Glasgow, Sheffield and Amsterdam and in 1994 co-curated Bonnard at le Bosquet, London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 2010-11 she was lead curator of Gauguin: Maker of Myth at the Tate Modern, London, and at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Chris Stephens is Director of the Holburne Museum, Bath.
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artist quarter: modigliani, montmartre & montparnasse by Charles Douglas Pallas Athene 2018 PB 140 x 215 mm 270 pp including 16 illustrations 978 1 84368 153 3 £14.99 Republished for the first time since 1941, Artist Quarter is one of the most vivid accounts of life in Bohemian Paris ever written. Modigliani is its hero, his brief life shooting like a comet through constellations of artistic genius; but the book is always down to earth and often very funny about life amongst the outsize characters – including Picasso and Apollinaire, rival painters Utrillo, Kisling and Derain, the models Aïcha and Kiki, Max Jacob and a host of other poets – in the golden age of Montmartre. From the original blurb: What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their heyday, roughly between 1904, when the youthful Picasso had just arrived on the Hill of Martyrs, and 1920, when Amedeo Modigliani, justly called ‘the prince of Bohemians’, died of consumption and dissipation in Montparnasse? This book, written by an Englishman who lived in Montmartre for 30 years and knew its famous habitués intimately, gives a vivid description. It reveals the truth behind the many legends, is packed with authentic stories about writers and painters whose names are now household words, and contains much hitherto unpublished information about the life and career of Modigliani, obtained from his family and friends. Much of the text was written in Montmartre amid the scenes described, and after personal consultation with survivors of the great days when Frédé presided over the Lapin Agile and Libion, patron of the Café de la Rotonde, was beginning to rival him in Montparnasse. It is the most complete account which has yet been written in English of the birth of Cubism and other contemporary movements in modern painting, and of the lives and loves that started them.
the anatomy of the horse by George Stubbs introduction by Constance Anne Parker essay by Oliver Kase new edn Pallas Athene 2015 PB 210 x 297 mm 64 pp 978 1 84368 0 031 £14.99 One of the most important publications of Enlightenment art and science, The Anatomy remained a textbook for artists and scientists for well over a century, and to this day the strange, spare beauty of these prints continues to fascinate. This edition reproduces all Stubbs’ etchings and is taken from the 1853 printing, the last to use Stubbs’ original plates. Stubbs is, next to Leonardo, the greatest painter-scientist in the history of art Basil Taylor
millais’s collected illustrations by Sir John Everett Millais new edn Pallas Athene 2015 PB 160 x 210 mm 168 pp 978 1 84368 035 2
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‘By the force of his genius and his persistent individuality’, as his first biographer wrote, Millais ‘helped to revolutionise the art and craft of woodcutting’. Under his leadership it became the defining art form of the age; yet today it remains relatively little appreciated. Reprinted for the first time since 1865, this anthology, chosen by Millais himself, brings together 80 of his finest illustrations. Collected from his work for Trollope, Tennyson, Collins, and the weekly periodicals over most of his long working life, these prints range from visionary romance to comedy of manners. Together they represent some of the finest black and white work of the Victorian era.
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every object tells a story, 2017
every object tells a story, 2015
by Oliver Hoare
by Oliver Hoare
Pallas Athene 2017
Pallas Athene 2015
PB 340 x 258 mm
PB 245 x 310 mm 192 pp 250 illustrations
350 pp over 400 illustrations 978 1 84368 145 8 £40 This extraordinary and breathtakingly beautiful book celebrates a lifetime of collecting passion. Oliver Hoare, one of London’s most distinguished dealers, originally learnt his craft in the company of Bruce Chatwin. His love of the rare, the evocative, the seductive shines out from every stunning object in this collection and the stories that he teases out from them. No one could fail to be drawn into this gorgeous labyrinth. Published to coincide with an exhibition held in the magnificent settings of the Lavery Room in Sir John Millais’s studio house in South Kensington, the book includes antiquities from the ancient and classical worlds; objects connected to shamanism, magic and alchemy; engravings by Dürer, Hollar and Rembrandt; unusual paintings and textiles; and many curiosities. Highlights include: the silver libation cup of Möngke Khan, grandson of Genghis and ruler of an empire that stretched from modern Bucharest to Peking, and Karachi to Novgorod; the apple from the Garden of Eden – a silver pomander belonging to the Stuart Kings, with bite marks, opening to reveal a silver skull; a Scythian (6-7th century BC) jade pendant of the endangered Saiga antelope, as finely carved as anything by Fabergé; a bronze Bacchus head from a tripod table belonging to the Emperor Augustus; a limestone bear carved in 3rd millenium BC Bactria. The point of the exhibition, as its title announces, is to celebrate the fascinating, and often peculiar stories attached to works of art. The criterion for what is presented has little to do with the value of objects and therefore it differs from the more conventional ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’. Nor does it reflect the current canon of what is seen as beautiful or culturally significant, although there are significant and beautiful works of art by anyone’s standards. The catalogue is, hopefully, the work of a storyteller’s art. Oliver Hoare
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978 1 84368 107 6 £30 The book includes antiquities from the ancient and classical worlds; superb oriental musical instruments; erotica and fertilica; a section devoted to extinct species, particularly the dodo; objects connected to shamanism, magic and alchemy; engravings by Dürer, Hollar and Rembrandt; unusual paintings and textiles; curiosities including a Man Ray objet trouvé, and the 13th Dalai Lama’s double bass – he was passionate about jazz.
portraits of the masters: bronze sculptures of the tibetan buddhist lineages ed. by Donald Dinwiddie Pallas Athene 2003 HB 272 x 320 mm 396 pp 344 illustrations 978 1 93247 600 2 £85 A catalogue of 108 portrait bronzes of great masters of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions, Portraits of the Masters presents an innovative history of these teaching lineages based on and illustrated by the collection. Ranging in date from the twelfth to eighteenth century, the sculptures span the most productive period in the history of Tibetan Buddhist art, providing unparalleled illustration of Tibetan portraiture’s long and varied history. Prefaced with a groundbreaking and comprehensive history of Tibetan portraiture.
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the nation’s mantelpiece: a history of the national gallery
art in changing times: painting & sculpture in slovakia 1890-1949
by Jonathan Conlin
by Ján Ábelovský and Katarína Bajcurová
Pallas Athene 2008 220 x 160 mm 464 pp 260 illustrations PB 978 1 84368 020 8 £24.99 HB 978 1 84368 018 5 £35.99 The first history of the National Gallery, masterfully researched and extensively illustrated with paintings and historical images. The National Gallery is a unique cultural achievement: a supreme collection of pictures owned and enjoyed by the people. How it happened, the mixture of principle and politics, muddle, scholarship, philanthropy and luck is a peculiarly British story. And it is told, for the first time, lucidly and compellingly, by Jonathan Conlin in this admirable book. This is far more than the history of an institution: it is the story of the struggle to give paintings a central place not just in London, but in the nation’s life Neil MacGregor, former Director of the National Gallery, former Director of the British Museum, A history of the nation’s great art collection is long overdue. The Nation’s Mantelpiece is magnificently researched by Jonathan Conlin and makes a fascinating read for art and history lovers alike. It compellingly relates the struggle to collect and display great works of art that engage the hearts and minds of the British public Charles Saumarez Smith, former Director of the National Gallery
designs by mr. r. bentley for six poems by mr. t. gray by Thomas Gray and Richard Bentley preface by Horace Walpole essay by Loftus Jestin Pallas Athene 2010 PB 278 x 210 mm 120 pp 978 1 84368 058 1 £16.99 Facsimile of the first through-illustrated books ever published in England, and still one of the most beautiful.
Slovart 2018 HB 330 x 230 mm 384 pp 978 8 07145 412 0 £69 This book is the most comprehensive survey ever made of the history of painting and sculpture in Slovakia from 1890 to 1949. In 1890, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was still flourishing, but by 1949 the Communists had gained full control over Czechoslovakia. Art in Slovakia was exposed to many changes between these dates. Its authors – Ján Ábelovský and Katarína Bajcurová – present Slovak modernism as a logical, continuous and complex endeavour of artists from all cultural backgrounds, be they of Slovak, Hungarian, Czech or Jewish origin. For a long time, Slovak modernism has been presented as a search for a national identity through art. Nevertheless, art in Slovakia was much more the result of blending local traditions and uniqueness with foreign influences. Documenting this specific process, the authors of this book prove that the artists living and working on the territory of Slovakia contributed to the exciting development of twentieth-century art.
viktor frešo by Katarína Bajcurová, Vladimír Beskid, Lucia Gavulová and Peter Tajkov Slovart 2018 HB 280 x 210 mm 464 pp 97 8 805563 080 9 £59 This outstanding monograph brings a fresh and non-conformist view of the artwork of contemporary Slovak multimedia artist Viktor Frešo (1974), who is best known for the creation of Pičus, a sculpture of an angry white homunculus that has proved enduringly popular. The text of four acclaimed curators is complemented by rich picture material that documents Frešo’s paintings, photographs, statues, objects and conceptual and textual art. This bilingual, English-Slovak publication is also notable for its original graphic design and luxurious production values.
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jiří anderle: cabinet of curiosities paintings, prints, drawings by Richard Drury Slovart 2017 PB 290 x 250 mm 224pp 978 8 07529 272 8 £29.90 Since he first appeared on the Czech art scene in the mid-1960s, Jiří Anderle (born 1936) has earned a unique place not only in the Czech context but also internationally. He has held over one hundred solo exhibitions throughout the world and his work is represented in some 40 galleries and museums, including the New York Metropolitan Museum and Paris’s Pompidou Centre. He has achieved renown above all for his graphic art, in which he has developed a unique artistic language based on the masterful use and combination of various print-making techniques, including prints, drawings, paintings and sculptures. Despite their diversity, his pieces have however a common denominator – a critical humanistic vision focussed on specific historical events and general topics of mankind.
ivan lendl: alfons mucha by Ivan Lendl Slovart 2016 HB 305 x 290 mm 320 pp colour illustrations throughout 978 8 07391 742 5 £39.95 Alfons Mucha, of Slovak origin, was one of the most inventive and accomplished figures of Art Nouveau. Working mainly in Paris, he was above all a creator of unforgettable posters, for the theatre, cabarets, and advertising. The Ivan Lendl Collection is currently the most complete collection of Mucha’s posters in the world. It also includes many other examples of his art. This monograph comprises newly-produced high-quality colour prints of all the items in the Lendl collection, as well as more than 100 preliminary drawings, sketches and prints which give the reader a glimpse into Mucha’s studio. Twentyfive photographs documenting Mucha’s Parisian period will also be of particular interest. Its wide range and considerable documentary value make this a truly unique publication offering deeper knowledge of all important periods of Mucha’s work.
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aesthetics of popular culture ed. by Jozef Kovalcik, Max Ryynänen Slovart 2017 PB 255 x 150 mm 254 pp 978 8 08925 986 1 £12.95 Discussing popular culture is one of the keys to understanding the arts and culture more broadly. This is something which seems to be shared by the scholars who have contributed to this book. Their essays on popular culture and on its aesthetics serve as a platform for discussing cultural, ethical and political issues. Popular culture and philosophical reflection upon it also help to unlock themes in law, children’s literature, everyday aesthetics, high-cultural heritage, the internet and material culture. In the interviews section, the editors discuss some of the roots of these issues with two thinkers who represent the cream of the discussion. We delve into Richard Shusterman’s theory of popular culture and somaesthetics, and then with Gianni Vattimo, the popular goes hand in hand with a discussion that more broadly touches on culture and the arts.
františek horniak: world of stamps by Antónia Paulinová Slovart 2017 HB 300 x 240 mm 344 pp 978 8 09715 091 4 £59 An exceptional monograph presents the engraving and stamp-making artwork of one of the first Slovak steel engravers, František Horniak, who was awarded the most important international award in stamp-making, Europhilex (London, 2015). His multicolour steel-plate engravings of the artworks of contemporary artists as transcriptions of our cultural heritage have become testimonies of our age. Horniak has created many designs of postal stamps for the Slovak postal service and exhibited his work both at home and abroad. The publication includes an author’s biography; list of exhibitions, awards and honours; catalogue of engravings; list of artworks and bibliography.
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hogarth on high life
hieroglyphic tales
The Marriage à la Mode series from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s Commentaries trans. and ed. by Arthur C. Wensinger with W. B. Coley
by Horace Walpole with an extra story preserved only in manuscript introduced by Kenneth Gross
Pallas Athene 2012 PB 285 x 210 mm 150 pp with hundreds of illustrations 978 1 84368 027 7 £14.99 One of the most illuminating – and witty – critiques of Hogarth, by the German Enlightenment philosopher Lichtenberg.
aubrey beardsley: a biography by Robert Ross introduction by Matthew Sturgis revised iconography by Aymer Vallance Pallas Athene 2011 PB 182 by 124 mm 136 pp 16 full page illustrations 978 1 84368 072 7 £9.99 The pioneering biography of Beardsley by his original discoverer, Oscar Wilde’s friend Robert Ross. This republication is a close copy of the first stand-alone edition of 1909. It comes complete with all its original illustrations (and the advertisements for Beardsley’s publications) and the catalogue of Beardsley’s works by Aymer Vallance, which is still the cornerstone of Beardsley studies
art galleries of the world by Helen Langdon new edn Pallas Athene 2004
Pallas Athene 2000 PB 195 x 130 mm 80 pp 978 1 84368 059 8 £9.99 The first surrealist stories in English, originally published in an edition of five, all kept under lock and key by Horace Walpole.
aubrey beardsley: a biography by Matthew Sturgis Pallas Athene 2011 PB 210 x 148 mm 404 pp illustrated 978 1 84368 074 1 £17.99 Thoroughly researched, balanced ... evenly paced ... Sturgis writes with a poise and knowledge that inspire the reader with confidence Richard Dorment, TLS Immensely well-researched and sensitively written ... His is now the full biography of Beardsley that the general reader needs and will most enjoy Tom Rosenthal, THES An excellent piece of work, written with a light, slightly arch tone that exactly suits the subject. Martin Gayford, Sunday Telegraph
a description of the villa of mr horace walpole at strawberry hill
PB 116 x 197 mm 528 pp 212 full-colour illustrations Second fully revised edition
by Horace Walpole, introduced by Michael Snodin
PB 978 1 873429 46 4 £16.99
PB 262 x 210 mm 120 pp
HB 9780952998662 £24.99 A comprehensive guide for anyone interested in the history of painting, with practical details for visitors, a biographical index of over 600 artists, and an extensive glossary.
new edn Pallas Athene 2015 978 1 84368 113 7 £20.00 A facsimile of Horace Walpole’s own guidebook to his beloved Strawberry. Extensively illustrated.
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memories of a preraphaelite youth
burne-jones talking
by Ford Madox Ford
by Thomas Rooke ed. by Mary Lago
Pallas Athene 2013
Pallas Athene 2013
PB 120 x 190 mm 88 pp 978 1 84368 085 7 £7.99 Selected from Ford’s many volumes of memoirs (all now out of print) this is a superb and very funny introduction to one of the great periods of English art and poetry by a great writer at the very heart of all that was old and all that was new. Ford was the grandson of Ford Madox Brown (seen trying to paint him on the cover) and knew all the major and many of the minor figures of the period. There are rich anecdotes about the Rossettis, Brown, Morris, Burne-Jones, Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Leighton, Swinburne and many of the minor but no less vivid characters that made up the bohemian life of London in the second half of the nineteenth century
the beginning of the world by Edward Burne-Jones
His conversations 1895-1898 preserved by his studio assistant Thomas Rooke
PB 134 x 210 mm 212 pp 8 pp illustrations and many line drawings 978 1 84368 089 5 £12.99
‘To know his work without his talk is “not to know him” ... only when they are side by side is the common origin and aim seen and the complete man displayed.’ In this collection of conversations recorded by Thomas Rooke, Burne-Jones’s studio assistant, the painter emerges as a loveable and charming man, far more practical and downto-earth, not to mention wittier and more ironic, than might have been expected. This unparalleled glimpse into the mental life of one of the great Victorian artists is edited by Mary Lago of the University of Missouri.
light: with monet at giverny by Eva Figes
Pallas Athene 2012
Pallas Athene 2016
PB 210x297mm 24 pp 25 illustrations
PB 115 x 150 mm 122 pp
978 1 84368 088 8 £12.99 Burne-Jones’s greatest artistic partnership – arguably one of the most fruitful in the history of art – was with his friend William Morris. Together they created paintings, furniture, stained glass and tapestries; above all, at the end of Morris’s life, they worked together on books for Morris’s Kelmscott Press. Morris had immersed himself from his youth in the art of the book and the manuscript, and the productions he oversaw at Kelmscott remain to this day a benchmark. Intended to have been part of a Kelmscott Bible, these illustrations to the first chapters of Genesis show Burne-Jones’s peerless sense of design at its purest, and the intensely careful balance of illustration and text makes this an epitome of the Kelmscott style.
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Burne-Jones Talking
978 1 84368 000 0
£8.99
A glimpse of one day in the life of Claude Monet, this mesmerising novel captures the nuances of thought and feeling shared by the artist’s friends and family, amid the changing light of Giverny. A luminous prose poem Joyce Carol Oates A small masterpiece Susan Hill I have never read a text which goes even half as far as this one in expressing the particular poignancy which lay at the heart of the impressionist movement. I say this as an art critic. As a novelist I would simply like to pay my tribute to the mastery of language, portraiture and storytelling which Figes has now at her command John Berger
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mr whistler’s ten o’clock
100 best paintings in london
By James Mcneil Whistler
by Geoffrey Smith
PB 190 x 148mm 42 pp 40 colour and b&w illustrations
Interlink 2005 PB 228 x 126 mm 252 pp
978 1 84368 075 8 £9.99 Bruised and bankrupted by his disastrous 1877 encounter with John Ruskin (who had called his painting ‘a pot of paint flung in the face of the British public’) Whistler spent the following years tirelessly working, exhibiting and, inevitably, promoting himself. The culmination of this was the public lecture he delivered in 1885, under the auspices of the Gilbert and Sullivan impresario, Richard D’Oyly Carte, and which he later published as Mr. Whistler’s Ten O’Clock. Yet the “Ten O’Clock” was very far from being mere boulevard entertainment. Whistler took enormous pains over the lecture, and used it to set out his artistic beliefs (and take aim at some favourite targets) with all the waspish acuity and butterfly wit at his command. Oscar Wilde called the Ten O’Clock ‘a masterpiece. Not only for its clever satire and amusing jests will it be remembered, but for the pure and perfect beauty of many of its passages.’
sylvia edwards by Mel Gooding Pallas Athene 2004 HB 310 x 240 mm 200 pp 100 colour illustrations 978 0 952998 69 3 £39.99 Sylvia Edwards, when describing her technique for beginning a new abstract watercolour, begins with the application of colour which seems to start the whole mystical process of what will eventually become a satisfactory image. ‘I carefully place on a fresh palette as many colours as can possibly fit, rather than selecting a limited palette. The full range of colours is more of a challenge, especially with watercolours. Colours are like a celestial banquet. The more vivid and varied they are, the happier I am.’ This beautifully illustrated monograph is the first time a comprehensive account of her work has been made available. Each copy comes with a signed limited edition full colour lithograph, making this beautiful book a true collector’s item.
978 1 90521 406 8 £14.99 100 Best Paintings in London is an essential guide to the cream of the great public collection of art in the capital. Each of the 100 chosen paintings is reproduced in full-color with a vivid description that provides both appreciation and analysis and includes fascinating details of why, how and where the picture was painted. A biographical chronology of the artist’s life accompanies each entry together with a listing of works by contemporary painters. Geoffrey Smith’s illuminating text makes you want to look afresh at favorite paintings and invites you to discover some that are not so familiar. From Duccio and van Eyck to Mark Rothko and Anselm Kiefer, 100 Best Paintings in London covers the complete spectrum of the treasures to be found in the city’s unsurpassed galleries.
100 best paintings in new york by Deanna MacDonald and Geoffrey Smith Interlink 2008 PB 228 x 126 mm 249 pp 978 1 90521v435v8 £14.99 100 Best Paintings in London is an essential guide to the cream of the great public collection of art in the capital. Each of the 100 chosen paintings is reproduced in full-color with a vivid description that provides both appreciation and analysis and includes fascinating details of why, how and where the picture was painted. A biographical chronology of the artist’s life accompanies each entry together with a listing of works by contemporary painters. Geoffrey Smith’s illuminating text makes you want to look afresh at favorite paintings and invites you to discover some that are not so familiar. From Duccio and van Eyck to Mark Rothko and Anselm Kiefer, 100 Best Paintings in London covers the complete spectrum of the treasures to be found in the city’s unsurpassed galleries.
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the real rock follies: the great girl band rip-off of 1976 by Annabel Leventon NW1 Books 2017 PB 198 x 129 mm 407 pp 19 photographs 978 1 99970 540 4 £9.99 October 21, 1982. Three singers stand on the steps of the High Court with large cheques and broken dreams. The women are Annie (Annabel Leventon, the book’s author), GB (Gaye Brown), and Di-Di (Diane Langton). Their dream was of a British three-woman rock band, unique and different from anything that had gone before. They called themselves Rock Bottom. They were raunchy, rude and hilarious – the contemporary media described them as ‘a cross between the female Rolling Stones and the female Marx Brothers’ – and they nearly made it. Until Thames Television stole everything and made a major award-winning series called Rock Follies, about them, based on them, but without them. It made stars of the three lookalikes playing them. And they lost everything. A common enough tale of showbiz betrayal. Except that they fought back. At the onset of the Court trial, the Head of Drama at Thames TV sarcastically quipped, ‘Three little actresses against the might of EMI?’
Flying high
Forget it, the three ladies were told. Move on. They didn’t. They took the case to the High Court and won. Breach of Confidence is now on the statute books and it has become one of the defining cases in Intellectual Property. The Real Rock Follies is a real-life story of youthful trust betrayed, dreams of stardom dashed and cruel lessons learnt. The three girls, then in their late twenties, learned too late that in the harsh showbiz world you can hardly trust anyone, not even your friends. However, despite everything, they got the last laugh. Their promising career couldn’t be returned to them but they enjoyed the huge satisfaction (both emotional and financial) that the ruling confirmed that the creative concept behind Rock Follies was fully theirs.
conversations with rossini
they’d none of ’em be missed
by Ferdinand Hiller translated, annotated and introduced by Robert Osborne
Pallas Athene 2008
Pallas Athene 2018 HB 125 x 216 mm 96 pp 978 1 84368 169 4 £16.99
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The conversations the 63-yearold Rossini had with Ferdinand Hiller in Trouville in Normandy in September 1855, and the newly drafted impression of Rossini himself with which Hiller prefaces the conversations, will be of exceptional interest to all music lovers. No other single source offers so vivid a sense of Rossini the man and the musician, not to mention the many composers, performers, and people of influence he knew and met.
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As Rock Bottom
by Richard Suart PB 173 x 127 mm 192 pp 978 184368 036 9 £14.99 Over the last twenty years, Richard Suart’s topical version of the ‘Little List’ song has become a focus of audience expectation and hilarity. In this book, he looks back over the Lists that have raised such laughter at the Coliseum and at the history of this immensely malleable song, taking in previous performers such as George Grossmith, Martyn Green, Groucho Marx, Frankie Howerd and Eric Idle – not to mention poets as varied as John Hollander and Tim Rice. Illustrated with 56 colour and 45 b&w illustrations of rare Gilbert and Sullivan material, many never previously reproduced, this is a delightful biography of one of the most entertaining songs in the English language.
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rest in my shade by Nora Lester Murad and Dana Masad Interlink 2019 HB 206 x 208 mm 48 pp 17 colour illustrations 978 1 62371 969 2 £15.99
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A moving poem that echoes the love Palestinians have for their olive trees and their deep connection to their land. Features seventeen major Palestinian artists. Rest in My Shade is a poetic story about displacement, identity and loss recited by an ancient olive tree. It is illustrated with olive trees created in various media by Palestinian artists living around the world. Millions of people are being uprooted, separated from their families, and risk losing their culture as a result of war, poverty, repression, and climate injustice. Rest in My Shade is a tool for building understanding, compassion, and dialog. Together, we can build a truly just world – one in which we can all live where we want, move freely and without fear, value and share the traditions that make us who we are, and feel dignity and acceptance wherever we are. Nora Lester Murad, originally from California, raised her three Palestinian-American daughters in Jerusalem. She now lives in New York. She was inspired to write this story by her father-in-law whose love for his olive trees echoes the deep connection between Palestinians and their land throughout the generations and across the continents. Danna Masad, originally from Zeita village, was born and raised in Ramallah, Palestine. She is an environmentalist,activist, and architect with a deep love for her land andpeople. Her inspiration for this story comes from witnessing the deep connection that developed over a lifetime between her grandmother and the olive trees she tended. An exquisite love song to Palestine and all its wonderful long-suffering people, to patience, the joy of fruitful simple living, and the power of holy, resilient trees. May the energy of tending and protecting our ancestral nourishment long endure Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners The book is a brilliant collaboration between its authors and a group of world class Palestinian painters. The lyric words of the text give clear meanings to the vibrant beauty of the visual art. In its few pages the tragedy and the transcendence of the Palestinian narrative are both memorably vivified. You will never regret having this book in your possession Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University Rest in My Shade is a universal story. As elegant as the rolling hills of the countryside that is its backdrop, as startling as the violent upheaval that is the refugee experience, it is truly a story of all of us Saul Takahashi, Former Deputy Head of Office, occupied Palestinian territory office, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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‘in jerusalem’ and other poems by Tamim Al-Barghouti Interlink 2017 PB 229 x 153 mm 80 pp
trans. by Lena Jayyusi, Sharif Elmusa et al
978 1 56656 023 8 £12.99
Interlink 1998
Born in 1977, Tamim Al-Barghouti is one of the most widely read Palestinian poets of his generation. His poetry readings are attended by thousands, sometimes packing stadiums and amphitheatres. The reception of his poetry among an audience from various backgrounds and age groups is a testimony to the vitality of the centuries-old tradition of classical Arabic poetry. The poems in this collection were written in Cairo, Ramallah, Amman, Washington DC and Berlin between 1997 and 2017. In 2007, Al-Barghouti’s long poem In Jerusalem, which describes an aborted journey to the Holy City, became something of a street poem. Palestinian newspapers dubbed Al-Barghouti ‘The Poet of Jerusalem’. Sections of the poem have even become ringtones blaring out from mobile phones across the Arab world, and children compete in memorising and reciting it.
the poetry of arab women: a contemporary anthology
PB 229 x 153 mm 192 pp 978 1 56656 193 8 £13.99 In a political age, in which the struggle against oppression has become central in Arabic poetry, Nizar Qabbani has succeeded in re-establishing the vitality and perennial force of the erotic in human life. Picking up a tradition of Arabic love poetry sixteen centuries old, he has enriched it with the experience of a modern man deeply aware of the changing status of women, and given the most eloquent poetic expression to the imperative of woman’s freedom and her right to assume control over her body and emotions. An accomplished master of the erotic, Qabbani has asserted life and joy in the face of chaos and tragedy, paying fervent homage, sustained over five decades, to woman’s grace and loveliness. A man of his times and of all times, he is by far the most popular poet in the Arab world.
elegies of love
ed. by Nathalie Handal
by Ovid illus. by Auguste Rodin trans. by Christopher Marlowe
Interlink 2016
new edn Pallas Athene 2018
PB 229 x 153 mm 378 pp
PB 250 x 133 mm 62 pp 32 illustrations
978 1 56656 374 1 £17.99 Arab women poets work within one of the oldest literary traditions in the world, yet they are virtually unknown in the West. In assembling this collection, Nathalie Handal has compiled an outstanding, important treasury that introduces the poetry of 82 Arab women living all over the world, writing in Arabic, French, English and other languages, and includes some of the twentieth century’s most accomplished poets as well as today’s most exciting new voices.
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on entering the sea: the erotic and other poetry of nizar qabbani
978 1 84368 163 2 £8.99 NEW EDN Never reprinted since their first, posthumous appearance in 1935, these woodcuts were the only printed versions of Rodin’s work to receive his full approval. Mostly self-educated, Auguste Rodin was a passionate re-reader of his favourite books, and Ovid’s Love Elegies occupied a special place in his imagination. These woodcut illustrations were taken from the astonishingly free and improvisatory life drawings he made in his later years. For many people these are the most entrancing manifestation of his genius. Privately published in 1939 in a strictly limited edition, these 31 beautiful images are very rarely seen.
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roman baroque by Anthony Blunt PB 207 x 150 mm 126pp Pallas Athene 2017 98 engraved views and diagrams 978 1 84368 119 9 £14.99
a guide to baroque rome: the churches by Anthony Blunt Pallas Athene 2013 PB 200 x 145 mm 363 pp 978 1 87342 918 1 £29.95
Each entry discusses in detail the The Baroque, for many the history of the building, its demost thrilling architectural style sign and construction as well as ever created, was born in Rome its significant features and decoration (including paintings). and reached its apogee in the work of three geniuses born Enormous amounts of new information have been in the 1590s – Bernini, Borromini and Pietro da Cortona. amassed since Blunt’s original edition appeared, and particuPerhaps the greatest student of the style was Anthony Blunt, lar care has been taken to make this material as accessible as who spent a lifetime studying and teaching the workRoman of these Baroque 02 arch_2017:Roman Baroque 02 arch rev 27/09/2017 13:30 Page 31 possible. Full references and bibliographies are provided in a architects and its importance to us now. This elegant and clearer format than hitherto. concise introduction to the style and its flowering in Rome was first published in an anthology of essays in 1978. It is republished here separately, copiously illustrated with contemporary engraved views and measured drawings.
a guide to baroque rome: the palaces by Anthony Langdon Pallas Athene 2015 PB 200 x 145 mm 256 pp 978 1 84368 114 4 £29.95 Over the last thirty years all aspects of the design, construction, decoration and functions of the great houses of Rome have been examined and our understanding of the period has been transformed. In this volume, Anthony Langdon distils this scholarship with elegance, acumen and wit. The illustrations include over 140 contemporary prints, as well as plans, elevations, and specially taken photographs; and there are extensive notes and indexes.
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slovak architecture yearbook 2016/2017 by Henrieta Moravčíková
friedrich weinwurm: architect by Henrieta Moravčíková
Slovart 2018
Slovart 2016
PB 300 x 230 mm 168 pp
HB 280 x 250 mm 376 pp colour illustrations throughout
978 8 05563 257 5 £39.95 The Slovak Architecture Yearbook is a long-term project that presents a regular insight into Slovak contemporary architecture. The architectural projects in this second edition are considered to be the best of the 2016/2017 Slovak architectural scene. Two introductory studies reflect upon current Slovak architecture from both a domestic and a foreign perspective. Included in the publication are lists of architectural prizes, competitions and exhibitions, along with a reading list of new books on architecture.
at the end of the road: the bratislava crematorium by Matúš Dulla photography by Olja Triaška Stefanovič Slovart 2018 HB 225 x 285 mm 128 pp 978 8 05562 985 8 £29.95 This publication intoduces the reader to the outstanding architectural masterpiece that is the crematorium of Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Built in 1968, it is the greatest work by Ferdinand Milucký, who was a member of the first Slovak postwar architectural generation. This book not only describes the building and its immediate genesis, but also situates it as the climax of an eightyyear-long campaign to establish cremation in Slovakia and in Europe. The texts of Matúš Dulla, in English and Slovak, are accompanied by the art photographs of Olja Triaška Stefanovič, who gently captures the changes of the crematorium and its surroundings. The book is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first Slovak crematorium.
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978 8 05561 158 7 £69 One of the ten winners of the Deutsche Architektur Museum Architectural Book Prize 2015 This is the first monograph to be devoted to the life and work of the Slovak architect Friedrich Weinwurm (18851942), contemporary of Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. Weinwurm was one of the leading exponents of the interwar Central European architectural avant-garde. His surviving work includes several dozen designed and completed office buildings, single-family houses, villas and housing complexes, an œuvre that is increasingly studied and admired today. His progressive social programme and clear principles for architectural design influenced the Slovak architectural scene of the 1920s and 1930s more than the work of any other architect. This publication examines Weinwurm’s work in detail and discusses its place in the broader context of Slovak and European architecture.
bratislava – atlas of mass housing: welcome to prefab story by Henrieta Moravčíková Slovart 2016 PB 260 x 175 mm 344 pp 978 8 05560 478 7 £24.95 The present publication offers a history and analysis of the social, economic, urban and architectural contexts of the construction of housing estates in the second half of the twentieth century in the city of Bratislava. It analyses each prefabricated housing estate individually in terms of its urban structure, construction and architectural aspects and the balance of built-up and free areas, and notes other specific features of the creation and building of these estates. Included in the publication is a rich array of illustrations with unique maps of each estate, drawings of prefabricated apartments, buildings and standardised public facilities, and several historic photographs of Bratislava’s housing estates.
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dictionary of art bronze founders, france 1890-1950 bilingual edition in 2 vols. (text in French and English with over 300 b&w illustrations)
les fauves: bronzes by antoine-louis barye in the marjon collection ed. by Alexander Kader
by Elisabeth Lebon
HB 287 x 299 mm 170 pp 215 illustrations
Sladmore 2015
Sladmore 2015
Slip case with two hardbacks
978 1 90140 362 6 £40
250 x 195 mm (292 pp; 176 pp) 978 1 90140 303 9 £180 Elisabeth Lebon has compiled the ultimate reference book for serious collectors of bronze sculpture and professionals working in the field. Her Dictionnaire features an extensive list of all the foundries operating in France at the beginning of the twentieth century, along with illustrations of each of their individual foundry marks. These are the founders renowned for casting artists including Rodin, Giacometti, Degas, Maillol, and Bugatti.
british new school by Julian Jans Bowman Sculpture 2016 PB 270 x 209 mm 116 pp 116 colour photographs 978 0 95612 049 6 £12.95 New Sculpture, or the New School movement, encompassed a number of formal and conceptual changes that amounted to a parallel with the birth of French Romantic sculpture, some three or four decades earlier. Produced to accompany the exhibition at Robert Bowman Gallery, late 2013, British New School presents a variety of the domestic scale statuettes of many of the most important pieces of New School sculpture. The earliest work presented dates from 1852, and the latest from 1923, a period of time that represents one of the most important and creative periods in British sculptural history. Arranged by sculptor, a total of 27 statuettes are extensively and sensitively photographed, each one accompanied by an enlightening commentary. This is a delightful publication that will charm and entertain anyone with an appreciation for late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sculpture.
Barye was the most famous artist of the group of sculptors we know as Les Animaliers. His art went beyond the mere representation of animals, however, and he became a key figure of the Romantic Movement. His achievements can be understood from the comments of the contemporary critics the Goncourt brothers, who proclaimed his 1850 composition, ‘Jaguar Devouring a Hare’, as ‘the beginning of Modern Art’. Rodin later argued that Barye ‘had discovered the great mystery of rendering movement’. This study highlights the aspects of Barye’s sculpture represented by seventy bronze casts of his wild and exotic subjects: Les Fauves. In these models, we can follow Barye’s artistic development and the transition from fine detail to a simplified modelling within his oeuvre.
sir alfred gilbert and the new sculpture: british sculpture 1850-1930 by Robert Bowman introduced by Peyton Skipworth Bowman Sculpture 2016 HB 276 x 218 mm 128 pp over 100 colour photos 978 0 99356 233 4 £17.95 During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, with the spread of prosperity, a new class of collectors gradually emerged who, whilst admiring grand works, began to appreciate that there was a place in the home for sculpture of a more modest scale. New Sculpture is the name given to the movement that responded to this shift in demand, and that encompassed a number of formal and conceptual changes. Robert Bowman presents this catalogue in partnership with the Fine Art Society, a gallery synonymous with the New Sculpture movement. Over 100 rich colour photographs show the figures up close and from varying angles, each accompanied by commentary and a select bibliography.
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rodin’s burghers of calais: under the spotlight, new edition by Edward Horswell Sladmore 2017 HB 210 x 210 mm 60 pp 45 illustrations 978 1 90140 317 6 £20 2017 saw the hundredth anniversary of the death of Auguste Rodin, still justifiably recognised today as not only one of the greatest sculptors of all time, but also the father of modern sculpture. His monument to the ‘Burghers of Calais’ is one of the best-known public sculptures in the world. So much so that Edward Horswell decided to curate an exhibition dedicated to the monument in 2015. Having spent over ten years building one complete set, the Sladmore was fortunate to secure a second, which, coupled with the gallery’s current stock holding of ‘Burghers of Calais’ and related works, created a most informative exhibition: several examples of the same sculpture could be viewed together, affording rich comparisons. In this beautifully illustrated publication, Horswell explains how the monument came to fruition. He looks at the casting history of the 50 separate works Rodin made on this subject and focusses on the reductions made between 1895 and 1903. The book also includes an essay by Patrick Elliott, Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, which looks at the monument and its influence on sculpture and sculptors from its first unveiling in 1895 until today.
rodin by Robert Bowman Bowman Sculpture 2016 PB 210 x 148 mm 49 pp 29 colour photographs 978 0 99356 232 7 £4.95 Produced to accompany an exhibition of selected works by Rodin at the Robert Bowman Gallery, this publication includes 29 colour photographs of Rodin bronzes. Text commentaries provide detailed information on the sculptures, including histories of casting, owners and exhibitions, and are completed by select bibliographies.
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rodin: in private hands introduced by Robert Bowman foreword by David Ekserdjian Bowman Sculpture 2016 PB 270 x 210 mm 272 pp 227 colour photographs 978 0 95612 041 0 £19.95 Remarkably few sculptors are household names, but Rodin is unquestionably one of the happy few. He is also by far the most celebrated and best loved sculptor of the nineteenth century. His works have become icons of modern art. The Kiss and The Thinker rank among the most famous images in the world, and are universally recognised even by those who have never set foot in a museum. What was so startling about Rodin’s sculptures was their ability to convey raw emotion and individual character in a way that had never been seen before. Working in the same era as the Impressionists, whose canvases were often criticised for looking like unfinished sketches, Rodin’s work pushed further still. Unafraid to unsettle the viewer, Rodin’s figures, often partly encased in stone, looked alarmingly avant-garde. For all the same reasons, Rodin has rightly been considered the father of modern sculpture ever since. Moreover, inspired by Michelangelo’s unfinished works, specifically sculptural fragments of torso and limbs, Rodin’s figures single him out as a precursor of abstraction. His sculptures celebrated sensuality and sexuality and seemed to herald a new age. It was these qualities that threatened the French art establishment for so many years, yet which now assure his continued popularity. His sculptures feel as fresh and accessible today as they did a century ago. Rodin: In Private Hands is a selection of works by Rodin curated by the Robert Bowman Gallery. These pieces range from single figures, couples and groups, to isolated torsos, heads and hands – very few have been seen in public before.
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rembrandt bugatti: life in sculpture by Edward Horswell Sladmore 2016 HB 310 x 250 mm 280 pp 978 1 90140 397 8 £45 The first truly comprehensive monograph in English on this important twentieth-century artist, this book examines Rembrandt Bugatti’s fraught personal life and his position in art history. It discusses the sculptor’s empathy for the life of his subjects, revealing a fascinating figure, independent from, yet not unrelated to, the artists of his time. This updated, lavishly illustrated publication will be a revelation to those discovering the artist for the first time. For those already aware of his brilliant vision and unsurpassed sculptural skills, it offers a spectacular photographic archive of his works, and much fresh thinking on his career. Edward Horswell, director of the Sladmore Gallery, has lived alongside Bugatti’s work for some thirty years. He has seen interest in the sculptor’s work increase tremendously. The gallery has collaborated with and loaned exhibits to all the recent museum shows devoted to Bugatti, as well as mounting its own series of exhibitions of his work in London.
lynn chadwick: out of the shadows
conjunction: lynn chadwick and geoffrey clarke introduced by Polly Bielecka and with an essay by Judith LeGrove Pangolin 2016 PB 260 x 260 mm 96 pp 100 colour and b&w illustrations 978 0 99265 824 3 £12.95 Charisma, resourcefulness, dedication and pioneering spirit are all attributes that can easily be applied to both Lynn Chadwick and Geoffrey Clarke, and from their prolific outputs it is clear that both had an indefatigable passion for sculpture, to which they brought exacting standards. This book places Clarke’s and Chadwick’s forms side by side, showing the convergences and divergences of their sculptural instincts. An essay by Judith LeGrove and an introduction by Polly Bielecka describe these parallel careers and characters, and their meeting points. This is an inspired publication that anyone interested in twentieth-century sculpture will find stimulating and enriching.
sculpture in the sixties introduced by Polly Bielecka
by Edward Lucie-Smith
Pangolin 2017
Pangolin 2015
PB 220 x 210 mm 78 pp Full colour illustrations
HB 301 x 255 mm 120 pp 163 colour illustrations 978 0 95604 913 1 £25 The constructivist and abstract works Lynn Chadwick produced between 1963 and 1966 have largely escaped critical notice or exposition but are an essential element in any analysis of Chadwick’s unique approach to making sculpture. These sculptures demonstrate that far from sticking to one form of expression during the cultural upheaval of pop, op, and minimalist art, Chadwick was as in touch with the zeitgeist as many of his younger contemporaries. Out of the Shadows is the most complete survey of Chadwick’s abstract works ever realised and finally recognises how inventive and experimental Chadwick really was. Renowned art critic and historian Edward Lucie-Smith situates Chadwick’s style within its historical and biographical milieu.
978 0 99562 132 9 £12.95 Reacting against and building upon the leaps and bounds British sculpture made in the ’50s with the so-called ‘Geometry of Fear’ artists, the ’60s saw sculpture released from the confines of the plinth, where it explored new materials, bright colours and minimalism. With Anthony Caro leading the way, a new, colourful abstract language began to be forged globally. Britain in particular played a potent role, with artists such as Phillip King and William Tucker being held in high esteem as key figures in whatis now known as the ‘New Generation’ of sculptors. Experimentation with new materials saw more artists move away from the figurative and into abstraction. This, tied with bold and vibrant colour, became a trademark of this new wave of sculpture. Huge abstract forms suspended in mid-air, defying the weight of their materials, were not only radical and exciting but sparked a change in the way people related to sculpture.
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blumenfeld by Robert Bowman with texts and commentary by the artist introduced by Karen Wright and Alan Caine
BLUMENFELD
by Robert Bowman with essays by Richard Cork and Nicola Upson
Bowman Sculpture 2016
Bowman Sculpture 2016
HB 301 x 252 mm 214 pp over 200 colour photographs by Julian Jans
HB 272 x 212 mm 64 pp 47 colour photographs
978 0 95612 040 3 £24.95 Commanding presences meet us in the work of Helaine Blumenfeld. The body, nature and emotional forces strike us immediately. The bloom of white marble and the more visceral forces revealed by bronze images need to be explored and even deciphered. We wonder how these tantalising and ambiguous sculptures came into being. The human body is apparent but often we cannot quite ‘find’ it. Pleasure, pain, struggle and release are here as well, and we can find poise, balance and beauty. Much of the most powerful work returns to the basic female dilemma of being divided, somehow conflicted – in spirit, attitude and indeed many times in form.
david bailey: sculpture + by David Bailey Pangolin 2015 HB 330 x 265 mm 64 pp 36 colour photographs 978 0 95604 916 2 £28 I’m not saying I’m a sculptor, I just make images. I don’t take photographs, I make them. And now I’m making something else David Bailey Renowned as one of the world’s most illustrious photographers, Bailey shocked viewers as he presented a dark and rugged collection of cast silver and bronze sculptures alongside a body of new photographs, underlining the stark contrast between the two media and emphasising his versatility as an artist. This book, designed by Bailey, showcases these new works. It explores the idea that image-makers should not be confined to one discipline, a freedom that Bailey fully justifies with these powerful works.
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helaine blumenfeld at salisbury cathedral
978 0 95612 043 4 £9.95 Fundamental to Helaine Blumenfeld’s sculpture is a belief that art exists to give form to the soul, to unravel the mysteries of who we are as human beings – and in Salisbury Cathedral, one of the glories of medieval Christendom and an inspiration to artists for 750 years, she has found the setting that her work has been waiting for. There is a perfect synchronicity at work in Messenger of the Spirit: like the walls of the Cathedral, the marble forms exude the passion and intensity with which they were created, combining the weight of history in the material with a soaring lightness of spirit; elsewhere, polished bronzes illuminate the darkness, absorbing and reflecting their surroundings until each is transformed by the other.
the spirit of the wood by Juraj Čutek Slovart 2018 HB 260 x 300 mm 400 pp 978 8 05563 075 5 £59 Juraj Čutek is one of the most remarkable Slovak artists. He is mainly known for his sculptures of figures made of wood combined with readymade metal elements. Čutek’s works oscillate between the imaginary and real worlds, drawing inspiration from history, music, mythology and circus art. His sculptures feature a highly distinctive style and dynamic rendering. Although they are static and firmly attached to their base, each of them gives its own unique theatrical performance in playful and lively posture.
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emily young by Robert Bowman Bowman Sculpture 2018 HB 276 x 214mm 65pp 978 0 99356 235 8 £20 NEW EDN In 2017, Britain’s greatest contemporary stone sculptor Emily Young presented a solo exhibition of new works. Along with the exhibition, Bowman Sculpture produced a catalogue to present the artist’s work, including a series of heads, discs and torsos directly carved from stone, and five new sculptures in bronze. The artist has used a variety of stones, ranging from Indian Forest Green marble and white onyx to Rouge de Vitrolles, quartzite and dolomitic limestone. The rich variety of attributes of each type of stone are generally characterised by their fineness of grain and brightness of colour, often in fossil form, containing traces of animals, plants and other organisms from the distant past. The artist’s approach is to ‘work with the stone’, allowing the material to reveal its inherent beauty. Young arrives at the finished form through a process of carving that guides her, reacting to the unique character and traits of the material. Emily Young was born in London into a family of writers, artists and politicians. Her grandmother was the sculptor Kathleen Scott, a colleague of Auguste Rodin and widow of the explorer Captain Scott of the Antarctic. While she first started her career as a painter, Emily Young abandoned painting in the early 1980s and started carving exclusively, sourcing stone from all around the world.
peter randall-page by Philip Ball Pangolin 2016 PB 218 x 260 mm 56 pp 50 colour photographs 978 0 99265 827 4 £9.95 It’s difficult to decide whether the impetus for Peter RandallPage’s complex but curiously geometric forms came from biology or from elsewhere, from cracks and crystals and splashes. Peter Randall-Page presented a new body of work which push traditional boundaries of making in Upside Down & Inside Out at Pangolin London from 5 September to 4 October 2014. This accompanying catalogue includes stunning photography of Randall-Page’s sculpture, prints and drawings along with an illuminating essay by Philip Ball.
steve dilworth: off the rock by Georgina Coburn Pangolin 2017 PB 240 x 250 mm 48 pp 978 0 99562 133 6 £9.95 Steve Dilworth was born in Yorkshire, studied at Maidstone College of Art and since 1983 has lived and worked on the remote Isle of Harris, Scotland. The landscape of eastern Harris is both rugged and beautiful in the extreme, with rock thousand million year old left exposed by scouring glaciers from the last ice age. The energy and presence of such surroundings are powerfully conveyed in Dilworth’s work and he is renowned for using a vast range of natural materials, mostly found on the island. Dilworth often encases natural objects he has found within his sculptures. The solid remains of animals and birds, beautiful in their own right, impart an energy and life to his sculpture. Even when completely enclosed, like the heart in a living body or the engine in a static vehicle, they empower the sculpture in both conceptual and symbolic ways.
hanneke beaumont by Robert Bowman Bowman Sculpture 2016 HB 277 x 213 mm 48 pp 50 vibrant colour photographs by Julian Jans 978 0 95612 048 9 £12.95 Hanneke Beaumont’s command of the human figure, and her impressive fluency with materials, enable her to animate her sculptures with curiosity, thoughtfulness, or play – all of them with an effortless and irresistable humanity that achieves certain universal appeal. Hanneke Beaumont is a vivid photographic presentation of these works around the world – figures that sit, stand, glance or balance in museums, gardens and even airports. Fifty beautiful colour photographs by Julian Jans show Beaumont’s people in all their sensitivity and playfulness, joined by several reproductions of the sculptor’s sketches.
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from the neck up: sculpture by nicole farhi FROM THE NECK UP Sculpture by NICOLE FARHI
introduced by Reg Gadney Bowman Sculpture 2016 HB 275 x 217 mm 48 pp 50 colour photographs 978 0 99356 230 3 £9.95
Nicole Farhi was born to Turkish parents in 1946 and brought up in Nice on the Côte d’Azur where her father sold rugs and lighting. She first gained public recognition during the 1980s as a designer of clothing, creating her eponymous label in 1982. For three successive years (1995-97) she won the British Fashion Award for Best Contemporary Designer. However, in privacy, if not secrecy, she was sculpting portraits. She now devotes herself to sculpture, and this book showcases some of her finest work
zachary eastwoodbloom: divine principles by Mark Miodownik
by Robert Bowman Bowman Sculpture 2016 HB 216 x 276 mm 48 pp 50 colour photographs 978 0 99356 231 0 £12.95 It’s the spiritual energy of a piece of art which counts, and nothing else Johannes von Stumm Johannes von Stumm’s unique combination of three different materials has attracted public and critical acclaim in a decade of successful exhibitions, both in the UK and abroad. His startlingly original sculpture, which engages continually with risk and a defiance of accepted laws, joins iron, granite and glass to create abstract or reduced figurative works in which apparently conflicting materials exist in complex harmony. Produced to accompany the exhibition at the Robert Bowman Gallery, this book presents Von Stumm’s arresting mixed media sculptures in their brilliant diversity, along with scenes of the artist working.
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merete rasmussen bronze & ceramic
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foreword by Polly Bielecka
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Zachary Eastwood-Bloom graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010, where he studied Ceramics and Glass. His work explores diverse materials including ceramics, glass, bronze, jesmonite, sound and video. His interest lies in the intersection between the physical and the immaterial and the historical and the cutting-edge. He references classical imagery, adopts digital aesthetics and uses leading technologies. For one body of work, Eastwood-Bloom used 3D software to scan busts from the British Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts, which he digitally manipulated before 3D printing and casting into clay: the process transitioned from the physical through the digital resulting in the physical.
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PB 189 x 239 mm 64 pp 40 full-colour photographs 978 0 99265 826 7 £9.95 Part alchemist, part mathematician, part poet – this artist is one to watch Financial Times, ‘How to Spend It’, on the exhibition Merete Rasmussen: Bronze and Ceramic accompanied the exhibition in winter 2015 at Pangolin Gallery. Bursts of colour and intricate forms characterised Rasmussen’s energetic, enlivening sculpture. Forty vibrant photographs by Steve Russell show off the colours of Ramussen’s sculpture, while a foreword by Polly Bielecka gives context to the exhibition and work.
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sterling stuff ii: seventy sculptures in silver introduced by Laura Cumming Pangolin 2016 PB 262 x 225 mm 160 pp 90 colour photographs 978 0 95604 911 7 £17.95 Silver can take a high degree of detail as well as polish, and its pure, clear beauty can make steel look blue and iron dingy in comparison. Yet there is scarcely a trace of it in the entire history of Western European sculpture. Pangolin Foundry commissioned fifty sculptors to conceive new works in silver, and Sterling Stuff II accompanies the resulting exhibition. Over fifty artists produced a show dazzling in its diverse response to the material, from David Bailey, Daniel Chadwick, Damien Hirst and Marcus Harvey to Michael Joo, David Mach, David Nash, and many more. 160 colour photographs convey the brilliance of the sculptures in great clarity, whilst texts by Laura Cumming, Claude Koenig and Rungwe Kingdon explain the conception of the project and the novelty of the material.
sculpture in the garden introduced by Polly Bielecka Pangolin 2016 PB 240 x 220 mm 60 pp 40 colour photographs 978 0 99265 829 8 £9.99 Sculpture and gardens have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship for millennia. Sculpture has a remarkable capacity to imbue a sense of place, add focus or create intimacy. It is irresistibly tactile and constantly changes in light and season, bringing an exciting dimension to any garden. Sculpture in the Garden accompanies the second in a series of exhibitions at Pangolin London that take a fresh approach to the way we view sculpture in a gallery environment. It aims to bring the ‘outside in’ and inspire the viewer to consider sculpture a valuable addition to the smallest urban roof terrace or the largest country estate. This book shows the sculptures exhibited in the contexts of their usual garden settings. It features forty colour photographs, a foreword by Polly Bielecka, and a ‘Guide to Placing Sculpture Outdoors’, making it a delight to the gardensculpture connoisseur and newcomer alike.
sculptors’ jewellery by Pangolin London essay by Emma Crichton-Miller Pangolin 2016 PB 260 x 208 mm 175 pp 115 colour photographs 978 0 99265 825 0 £15 Many sculptors known primarily for their large-scale work have also, from time to time, been drawn to the largely unknown genre of jewellery, working to express their ideas in often unfamiliar precious and non-precious materials. As Sculptors’ Jewellery makes clear, the resulting pieces remain deeply characteristic of the artists who made them. The book accompanied the exhibition at Pangolin London, in the winter of 2014-15, and celebrates works on a miniature scale from artists that are more used to working in the monumental. It includes over ninety pieces of jewellery from both well-known twentieth-century artists – from Picasso and Alexander Calder to Lynn Chadwick and Geoffrey Clarke – and leading contemporary figures such as David Bailey and Damien Hirst. The history of this somewhat unknown genre is lucidly illustrated with superb colour photography, an illuminating essay by Emma Crichton-Miller and commentaries throughout.
jeff lowe: object lessons introduced by James Faure Walker Pangolin 2016 PB 274 x 240 mm 114 pp over 70 colour illustrations and photographs, including fold-out 978 0 99265 828 1 £12.95 Internationally acclaimed sculptor Jeff Lowe was a student of ‘The New Generation’ of British sculptors that emerged in the 1960s. He first exhibited in 1974, when the status of sculpture was fiercely debated. Did it even need to be physical? Was ‘modernist’ sculpture still feasible? Amidst the fierce debates of that time, Lowe’s work was insistently physical. The constant scrutiny gave him the resilience to work independently; it has propelled him from phase to phase ever since. Object Lessons aims to explore Lowe’s prolific output over the past four decades. An introduction by James Faure Walker describes the details of Lowe’s sculptural career and its relationship within the debates around ’70s sculpture.
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the worlds of john ruskin, 2nd edn
1870-1880: THE PROFESSOR Opposite: ‘Study of kingfisher with dominant reference to colour’, 1870 or 1871. This was a drawing prepared in connection with Ruskin’s lectures, and later placed in the Rudimentary Series of the reference collection in the School of Drawing, in a cabinet labelled ‘Exercises in Colour with Shade on Patterns of Plumage and Scale.’ Ruskin also prepared a monochrome version to show shading. Contrary to his normal preference, he was not working from life but from a stuffed bird
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On 20 October, in Oxford, he delivered the first of ten lectures on Tuscan art, to be published in November 1874 as Val D’Arno. He returned to Herne Hill for the end of the year. Meanwhile, Rose La Touche’s mental condition had continued to deteriorate, and early in 1874, her parents settled her in a hospital in Norwood, only a short distance away from Herne Hill. Joan Severn paid the invalid girl a number of compassionate visits. Ruskin’s own mental health was significantly more robust, though by no means untroubled; in a letter to Norton, he outlined his growing obsession with St George and the Dragon.
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It was perhaps with a private hunch that a mens sana might be arrived at by contriving to be in corpore sano that he launched the most famous, and most frequently derided of all his practical schemes. Noting that the young gentlemen of Oxford mainly exercised their bodies by playing team sports – most of which Ruskin thought childish, pointless or worse – he proposed that they should instead engage in ‘Useful Muscular Work’. To be exact, that March he set a group of his undergraduate disciples, including Arnold Toynbee and his future editor Alexander Wedderburn, to work mending a road at Hinksey, near Oxford. Despite the evident social value of this work – the road was in a poor area, and often flooded with dangerously insanitary water – it was mocked from almost all
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Undergraduates working on the Hinksey Road, 1874. The tallest of the diggers is the statesman and imperialist Alfred Milner. The figure on the bank may be one of the ‘scoffers’ remembered by Wedderburn; and the figure on the far left perhaps Ruskin’s old gardener David Downs, whom he appointed ‘Professor of Digging’. Photograph reproduced in the Library Edition of Ruskin’s works
978 1 84368 148 9 £17.99 NEW EDN Ruskin is one of the most influential and exhilarating writers in English. Art critic, architectural visionary, social reformer, climate warner and incomparable teacher; Ruskin’s words not only transformed Victorian England but speak to us with increasing urgency today. This, the first general introduction to Ruskin for many years, places him in the social, economic and aesthetic world of Victorian Britain that he transformed – and shows how this transformation has much to teach us today. The extensive illustrations range from private notes and lecture diagrams to presentation drawings, including some of the most beautiful images of the nineteenth century and many never before published.
In Oxford, that March, he delivered a series of lectures on ornithology – the foundation of Love’s Meinie (1873-1881), which was to be the first in an eventual trilogy of idiosyncratic and strangely erudite books on natural history which also included Proserpina, on flowers, and Deucalion, on geology. His days passed peacefully enough, though his nights were often troubled by nightmares about snakes, or by sexual dreams about Rose. Of one of these, he said that Rose ‘gave herself to me – as sweetly in body as Cressid to Troilus.’ In July he wrote to Norton that ‘the deadly longing for the companionship of beautiful womanhood only increases in me – the want of it seems to poison everything.’
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1870-1880: THE PROFESSOR In Lucca, he returned to the study of Ilaria di Caretto’s tomb; then he went on to Florence. Throughout September and October he was deluged by letters from Rose – some of them frighteningly distraught. ENTER WILDE On 17 October 1874, Oscar Wilde – formerly of Trinity College, Dublin – matriculated at Oxford. He was later to call his time there ‘the most flower-like’ of his life. His two great intellectual masters at the University would be Pater (he did not meet the author of Studies in the History of the Renaissance until his third year, but began to read him with rapture in his first term) and Ruskin – both prophets of art, but each with a very different gospel to expound. As Wilde’s best biographer, Richard Ellmann, puts it: ‘Ruskin was sublime, full of solemn reproof, and fanatical; Pater insidious, all vibration, but cautious.’ (There was a gap of twenty years between them: Ruskin was 55 this year; Pater, his former disciple and now competitor, 35.) Wilde ultimately cast off both influences, but his early adulthood was dominated by their contradictory teachings. Wilde made a point of attending Ruskin’s lectures on Florentine art in the University Museum during the Michaelmas term, and, like other ardent young men of his generation, was altogether enthralled. The undergraduates would do for Ruskin what they did for almost no other lecturer: they applauded him. Sometimes they were so entranced that they even forgot to applaud – a higher compliment still.
A Vineyard Walk, Lucca: lower stone-work of 12th-century tower, 1874 This is the campanile of the Romanesque church in Pozzuolo, just south west of Lucca: ‘up to country church and drew well...’ (Diary, 24 September 1874)
sides. Common sense considered it ludicrous for well-born youths to apply themselves to manual labour. But the young men themselves seem to have enjoyed the experience, if only for the opportunity it provided to meet the Professor on close terms. At the end of the month, he set off on another Italian trip; this one would last seven months. He wrote regularly to Carlyle throughout this trip; since the death of John James, Carlyle had become more and more of a father figure. His first main stay was in Assisi, where he planned to study Giotto’s frescoes, and where he lived for a while in the pleasing austerity of a sacristan’s cell. His Christian faith, which had been enfeebled or, at times, all but extinguished for some sixteen years now, grew steadier and brighter again in these pious surroundings. To his surprise, he began to grow more fervent in his admiration for Cimabue’s work than for that of Giotto. The older Ruskin would be a very different type of Christian from the young Ruskin; in some respects much closer to Catholicism than Protestantism, though he never crossed fully over to Rome.
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Ruskin at work in Assisi: above, a letter to Joan describes the lower church, which ‘has quantities of beautiful work in it; very little spoiled. But you can only see it between the hours of 1/2 past three and five, in entirely cloudless afternoons, lying on your back, and through an opera glass. The window at A. is the source of Light. The frescoes on the roof at BC, CD. The thing like a Punches show is Di Pa’s working place – got up to by two ladders, – there being not one in Assisi long enough – I suffer [?] – to get up at once is di Pa at his easel in this position – with his own shadow (which you can’t see as it’s in profile) falling exactly on the paper.’ Below, a letter to Carlyle shows him with his books working at the sacristy table
During one of these lectures, Ruskin reminded his young men about his proposal that they should join his scheme of ‘Useful Muscular Toil’. Though Wilde hated early rising, he overcame his sluggish habits for Ruskin’s sake, and joined the exertions from November to the end of term. In later years, he liked to tell mildly comical tales of his road-making experiences, and used to brag that he had enjoyed the privilege of being allowed to fill ‘Mr Ruskin’s especial wheel-barrow’, and being given lessons by the Master himself in how to roll it from place to place. Ruskin grew fond of young Wilde, and asked him to call. After he graduated, Wilde wrote to Ruskin that ‘The dearest memories of my Oxford days are my walks and talks with you... from you I learned nothing but what is good. How else could it be? There is in you something of prophet, of priest, and of poet, and to you the gods gave eloquence such as they have given to none other, so that your message might come to us with the fire of passion, and the marvel of music, making the deaf to hear, and the blind to see.’ Wilde also learned something of Ruskin’s private misery, so that his admiration was mixed with sympathy. His journal entry for 25 April 1875 records a meeting with his friend William Hardinge, who explained to him that Ruskin had recently confided in him about Effie. ‘True sorrow does a man good,’ Ruskin had told him, ‘false sorrow does one harm. I only loved but one woman and I still feel chivalrous towards her and the man who robbed her from me.’
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A fine tribute, generously illustrated Sunday Telegraph Brilliantly introduces Ruskin to the general reader and offers insights into his continuing relevance Heather Birchall, Art Quarterly
The best watercolourist of the second half of the 19th century Kenneth Clark
Jackson’s pacy text is a masterly compression of an extraordinary life, offering at every juncture some apt historical context... among the 165 full-colour images are many outstanding and little- known masterpieces of the kind that only Ruskin’s keen eye could produce Stephen Wildman, Art Newspaper
the gardens at brantwood: evolution of ruskin’s lakeland paradise by David Ingram Pallas Athene 2014 PB 240 x 210 mm 120 pp full colour paperback 978 1 84368 099 4 £14.95 In 1872, the most famous cultural critic in Britain moved into a dilapidated cottage in the heart of England’s Lake District and swapped his pen for a billhook. John Ruskin’s arrival in a landscape already steeped in agricultural history began an evolution that led to the extraordinary gardens that grace Brantwood today.
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Ruskin’s own gardens reflected his astonishing empathy with plants and the natural world, as well as his interests in Dante’s poetry and Renaissance painting. Ruskin’s cousin and carer, Joan Severn, created some of the earliest gardens in the naturalistic style of William Robinson, with whom she was in friendly correspondence. These fascinating and beautiful gardens were neglected for decades after Joan Severn’s death, but have now been brought back to life by Sally Beamish, who has herself created more gardens at Brantwood in the spirit of Ruskin. The combined history of restoration and modern creativity makes Brantwood’s gardens unique. In this beautifully illustrated and comprehensive guide, eminent plant scientist, botanist and horticulturist David Ingram traces the history of the gardens and explores the contribution of successive garden visionaries who have blessed Brantwood from Ruskin to the present day.
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ruskin and his contemporaries by Robert Hewison Pallas Athene 2018 217 x 145 mm 770 pp 12 pages in colour PB 978 1 84368 168 7 £29.99 HB 978 1 84368 176 2 £59.99
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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of Victorian Britain’s greatest thinkers, the art critic and social reformer John Ruskin, the distinguished Ruskinian Robert Hewison introduces Ruskin’s ideas and values through revelatory studies of the people and issues that shaped his thought, and the ideas and values that in turn were shaped by his writings and personality. Beginning with an exploration of the rich tradition of European art that stimulated his imagination, and to which he responded in his own skilful drawings, Ruskin and his Contemporaries follows the uniquely visual dimension of his thinking from the æsthetic, religious and political foundations laid by his parents to his difficult personal and critical relationship with Turner, and his encounters with the art and architecture of Venice. Victor Hugo makes a surprising appearance as Ruskin develops his ideas on the relationship between art and society. Ruskin’s role as a contemporary art critic is explored in two chapters on Holman Hunt, one focussing on the Pre-Raphaelite’s The Awakening Conscience, one examining his later Triumph of the Innocents. The development of Ruskin’s role as a social critic is traced through his teaching at the London Working Men’s College and his foundation of the Guild of St George, a reforming society that continues to this day. Oscar Wilde came under his personal influence, as did Octavia Hill, a founder of the National Trust. The evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin are shown to have been deeply unsettling to Ruskin’s worldview. The book concludes with a demonstration of the profound influence of the Paradise Myth on all of Ruskin’s writings, followed by an exploration of the concept of cultural value that shows why Ruskin’s ruling principle: ‘There is no wealth but Life’ is as relevant to the twenty-first century as it was to the nineteenth. Robert Hewison is a British cultural historian who has combined life-long study of John Ruskin with an active engagement with contemporary culture. He published his first book on Ruskin, John Ruskin: The Argument of The Eye, in 1976, and went on to curate Ruskin in Venice at the J. B. Speed Art Museum in Louiseville in 1978. He has edited two collections on Ruskin, New Approaches to Ruskin (1981) and Ruskin’s Artists: Studies in the Victorian Visual Economy (2000). In 2000 he co-curated Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britiain and in 2009 published Ruskin on Venice: The Paradise of Cities. He has held chairs at Lancaster University and City University London, and was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford in 2000. Robert Hewison is one of the world’s leading scholars of Ruskin. Here, in this dazzling collection, the reader finds illumination, surprise, and clarification on every page. Out of this book springs a living man and a living age. Francis O’Gorman, Saintsbury Professor of English Literature, University of Edinburgh A brilliant feat of advocacy, written by a scholar in total command of his subject. 2019 sees the 200th anniversary of Ruskin’s birth. We shall be lucky if it produces anything as stimulating as this book John Carey in The Sunday Times
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ruskinland by Andrew Hill Pallas Athene 2019 HB 222 x 149 mm 304 pp 978 1 84368 175 5 £19.99
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A glimpse into a vast and marvellous country The Spectator Who was John Ruskin? What did he achieve – and how? Where is he today? One possible answer: almost everywhere. Ruskin was the Victorian age’s best-known and most controversial intellectual and polymath – an artist, scientist, critic, polemicist, social crusader, philanthropist and early environmentalist. Two hundred years since his birth in 1819, his ideas have a fierce modern relevance. In Ruskinland, Andrew Hill, the award-winning Financial Times columnist, builds on Ruskin’s pin-sharp appreciation of art and architecture, his extraordinary draughtsmanship, and his insistence that to see and draw the world is the best way to understand it better. The book lays out how Ruskin envisaged radical solutions to social inequality, excessive executive pay, flawed economic orthodoxy, advancing automation, environmental disaster and meaningless work. It explains the importance of his prescient view of our fragile, interconnected world, and shows how Ruskin’s radical ideas can still help us run our governments,
our museums, our galleries, our companies, and our lives. Part travelogue, part quest, part unconventional biography, Ruskinland retraces Ruskin’s steps, telling his exceptional and tragic life story, unearthing his influence, talking to people and visiting places – from Venice to Florida’s Gulf coast – where Ruskin’s foresighted ideas are, sometimes unexpectedly, alive today.
Andrew Hill is an award-winning journalist, writer and public speaker. A management columnist with the Financial Times, Andrew has served as a trustee of The Ruskin Foundation, responsible for Britain’s largest archive of material relating to John Ruskin and as chair of The Blueprint Trust, the charity behind Blueprint for Better Business, challenging business to be a force for good. He has worked as a journalist in London, Brussels, Milan and New York and currently lives in St Albans with his wife and children. He is the author of Leadership in the Headlines (FT Publishing, 2016). One of the most remarkable men, not only of England and our time but of all countries at all times, he was of those rare men who think with their hearts Leo Tolstoy There is in you something of prophet, of priest, and of poet, and to you the gods gave eloquence such as they have given to none other, so that your message might come to us with the fire of passion, and the marel of music, making the deaf to hear, and the blind to see Oscar Wilde How much I admire him, listen to him, seek to understand him and to obey him Marcel Proust The author of the most splendid pages in our language Henry James I was determined to change my life in accordance with the ideas of this book Gandhi, on Unto this Last
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marriage of inconvenience by Robert Brownell Pallas Athene 2011 155 x 235 mm 600 pp 56 pages in colour PB 978 1 84368 096 3 £17.99 HB 978 1 84368 076 5 £24.99 With its heady mixture of wealth, celebrity, sex and art, the story of John Ruskin’s brief marriage to Euphemia Gray and its annulment shocked Victorian society to the core, and was soon twisted into a lurid popular myth based on ignorance, smear and innuendo. Yet the truth of what actually happened to these two young people did survive, unnoticed and unrecognised in widely dispersed collections of personal papers and in obscure legal archives. This fascinating book has revolutionised Ruskin studies, but also offers a touching portrait of a Victorian marriage. An enjoyably obsessive re-examination of the marriage of Effie and John Ruskin and the pubic hair question Observer Books of the Year A page-turner, even for those familiar with the subject.The surprising truth is no less human, and no less revealing than the myths. It gives a compelling insight into what relationships, family and money really mean Country Life Brownell has the storyteller’s gift as well as a love for his evidence: this may be a scholarly tour-de-force but for sheer readability he has produced a cross between a John Grisham novel and an episode of New Tricks Howard Hull, Director of the Ruskin Foundation
the reviews of john ruskin’s ‘the seven lamps of architecture’ by Robert Brownell Pallas Athene 2019 217 x 145 mm 850 pp PB 978 1 84368 079 6 £34.99 HB 978 1 84368 141 0 £89.99 FORTHCOMING When The Seven Lamps of Architecture was published in 1849, it created an immediate sensation. The book was to be the foundation of John Ruskin’s reputation as Britain’s foremost architectural critic. But there was some perplexity about what he had meant by what he had written – as well as rumours of hidden meanings. Some critics likened his writing style to the effects of incense or even narcotics, warning the weak-minded to beware lest they were swept away by his passages of purple prose. Others recognised the authentic voice of a prophet of the age, and responded to the radical ideas that Ruskin had veiled in enigmatic language. All of them realised that architecture might never be the same again. These forty-five major English-language reviews have been gathered for the first time into one volume by Robert Brownell, the author of the groundbreaking Marriage of Inconvenience and A Torch at Midnight. They document the initial critical reaction to The Seven Lamps of Architecture, and in doing so provide a fascinating insight into contemporary thought, not only with regard to architecture, but also religion, politics and social issues.
Well illustrated and much footnoted. The evidence Brownell adduces is impressive and his thesis convincing TLS
a torch at midnight: a study of john ruskin’s ‘seven lamps of architecture’ by Robert Brownell A Torch at Midnight Rob Brownell
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The popular myth of Ruskin as the archetypal Victorian patriarch has persistently clouded interpretation of his ideas, introducing spurious psychosocial motives based on a misunderstood scandal. The Ruskin that emerges from A Torch at Midnight is quite different: heretical in religion, radical in politics, subversive in economics and relentless in the pursuit of truth and meaning. Faced with establishment suspicion of heresy in any sphere, he disguised his controversial ideas by drawing on a literary tradition going back through Goethe, Spenser and Dante to ancient Greece.
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rambling reminiscences: a ruskinian’s recollections by Jim Dearden Pallas Athene 2014 PB 210 x 150 mm 342 pp 978 1 84368 105 2 £19.99 Jim Dearden has spent a lifetime working with the great legacy of John Ruskin, from his schooldays under the leading Ruskin collector, John Howard Whitehouse, to his recent, magisterial study, The Library of John Ruskin. He returned to his alma mater and became curator of the Ruskin Galleries there; he has been a dedicated Companion, Director and Master of Ruskin’s Guild of St George; and he has written numerous articles on Ruskin and related topics. In Howard Hull’s words, Jim has ‘single-handedly done more for the revival of interest in Ruskin than anyone else alive’. All Ruskinians will be fascinated to read the details of Jim’s thoughts and often trenchant reflections on this life well lived.
‘a new and noble school’: ruskin and the pre-raphaelites ed. by Stephen Wildman, introduced by Robert Hewison
by Jim Dearden Pallas Athene 2018 HB 217 x 145 mm 260 pp 978 1 84368 152 6 £19.99 Jim Dearden’s latest book, A John Ruskin Collection, brings together a lifetime’s worth of articles on the lives of John Ruskin and those around him. In each, Dearden’s vast knowledge of Ruskin and exceptional capacity for recollection deftly and sensitively illuminate his subjects, moving through their emotional, intellectual and artistic lives and their everyday domestic routines. We are guided through Ruskin’s portraits of Rose La Touche, asked to consider why he sold Turner’s The Slave Ship, invited to investigate how his father, John James Ruskin, travelled to his office, or provided with a window, onto the lives of the Severn family while at Brantwood, using their drawings and sketches. As Tim Hilton describes in his Preface, ‘the result is like reading an incredibly elaborate family history’.
effie in venice by Mary Lutyens Pallas Athene 2001
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Already established as one of the leading writers on art, John Ruskin took a personal risk in defending the Pre-Raphaelite cause in 1851, but saw a parallel in the hostile reaction to the paintings of his artistic idol J. M. W. Turner. In Millais especially, Ruskin hoped to nurture a worthy successor in landscape painting, arguing that the Pre-Raphaelites’ attention to truth and detail offered the opportunity to establish a ‘new and noble school’ of British art. This is the first compilation of all of Ruskin’s published writings relating to the Pre-Raphaelites, spanning his career from Modern Painters in 1843 (claimed by Hunt to have been an inspiration) to his last Slade Lectures forty years later.
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The witty and fascinating letters writen from Austrianoccupied Venice by John Ruskin’s young wife, Effie. A classic of travel literature and of Ruskin studies. Superbly edited and indexed by the pioneering Ruskin scholar, Mary Lutyens. Absorbing and brilliant The Times A treasure trove Daily Telegraph
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the storm cloud of the nineteenth century by John Ruskin introduced by Peter Brimblecombe, preface by Clive Wilmer Pallas Athene 2012 PB 195 x 130 mm 88 pp five original illustrations 978 1 84368 078 9 £8.99 An eerily prescient denunciation of capitalism’s assault on the atmosphere – and the profound danger that this represents not only for the health of the earth, but for the spiritual wellbeing of humanity.
the stones of venice by John Ruskin ed. by J. G. Links new edn Pallas Athene 2019 PB 215 x 140 mm 272 pp illustrated with diagrams and sketches 978 1 87342 945 7 £12.99 NEW EDN The single most influential text-book on architecture, its essence, its elements, its social history and its future ideal. As Ruskin wrote, ‘To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion – all in one,’
the king of the golden river by John Ruskin
unto this last by John Ruskin introduced by Andrew Hill preface by Clive Wilmer new edn Pallas Athene 2017 PB 195 x 130 mm 126 pp with a frontispiece facsimile of the original MS 978 1 84368 060 4 £9.99 Perhaps the most influential political essay ever written, Unto This Last was one of the defining texts of British socialism, and was a decisive experience in the lives of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, amongst many others. A new generation of economists are welcoming Ruskin’s work, and this edition is introduced by Andrew Hill, Associate Editor of the Financial Times.
the nature of gothic by John Ruskin preface by William Morris, afterwords by Robert Hewison, Tony Pinkney and Robert Brownell new edn Pallas Athene 2015 PB 210 x 148 mm 160 pp original illustrations 978 1 84368 101 4 £14.99 The first ever facsimile of the Kelmscott edition of the book that showed William Morris the path to his life’s work. One of the cultural high-points of the nineteenth century, and a monument of book design.
new edn Pallas Athene 2019 PB 175 x 135 mm 74 pp 25 original illustrations 978 1 84368 030 7 £9.99 Ruskin’s only children’s book: originally written as a gift for the 15-year-old Effie, it is the first literary fairy tale in English, and also prefigures Ruskin’s ecological and economic ideas. Reprinted with the superb original illustrations by Richard Doyle.
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havana de cuba by Marzena Pogorzaly Pallas Athene 2018 HB 148 x 210mm 64 pp Over 60 colour photographs 978 1 84368 151 9 £12.99 Marzena Pogorzaly made two trips to Havana. There, she walked the streets of Havana Vieja and El Centro, the old districts, trying to capture the melancholy beauty and decay of the city and its inhabitants. Pogorzaly’s calmly gorgeous images are not directly concerned with politics, but as someone who grew up in pre-Solidarity Poland, she combines mature scepticism about communist regimes with due respect for some of its achievements. As she explains in her introduction: ‘Some of it was familiar. I was born, and grew up, behind the Iron Curtain. I immediately felt at home with the way the System worked, or rather the way it did not. But where the palette of my homeland was dull, drab and irredeemably monochrome, here I found a vivid treasure chest of visual epiphanies’.
prague at the turn of the century by Pavel Scheufler Slovart 2018 HB 245 x 210 mm 160 pp 978 807529 593 4 £24.95 Towards the end of the AustroHungarian Empire, Prague still possessed its venerable majesty, but it was already on its way to becoming a modern European metropolis. The old Jewish Quarter had been replaced with broad boulevards, modern bridges spanned the river, and the first steam trains from Vienna were arriving at the station. While only recently the Emperor and his guard had promenaded here, soon independence would be declared and a new country, Czechoslovakia, would be founded. The remarkable photographs in this book capture key moments and everyday life in Prague. Pavel Scheufler has selected over 140 photographs from his family’s archive and written a commentary on each one. This book is not only a valuable account of a city in transition but also a guide to reading photographs in a way that lets us hear the fascinating stories they tell.
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south of eden
Georgia 2008 Traces of bullets in the windows of a café in the center of the town of Gori during the war with Russia.
by Andrej Bán Slovart 2017 PB 240 x 210 mm 208 pp 978 8 05562 448 8 £34.95 Born in 1964, Andrej Bán is one of the most committed and distinguished photo-reporters in Eastern Europe. He is a mainstay of the influential photo-reportage magazine .týždeň and works for Handelsblatt, Newsweek and other international titles. A founder of the NGO People in Peril, he was awarded the Crystal Wings in recognition of his humanitarian work after the Indian Ocean tsunami. South of Eden is the third book of his work to be published by Slovart. In it, Bán has selected 82 of his most telling images from the 25 countries that he has visited regularly in the last quarter century, including Bosnia, Georgia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Although Bán’s gaze is unflinching as he records mass migrations, ethnic and religious conflicts, and natural disasters, he also explores hope and the ability of ordinary people to survive and cope with their destiny. The result is an exceptionally acute and moving book.
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Tunisia 1997 Boys playing during traditional Jewish pilgrimage to the island of Djerba.
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kosovo
the other slovakia
by Andrej Bán
by Andrej Bán
Slovart 2017
HB 300 x 235 mm 136 pp
HB 280 x 280 mm 128 pp
Slovart 2017
978 8 08085 678 6 £39.95
978 8 08085 054 8 £29.95
In his book Kosovo, photographer and award-winning journalist Andrej Bán offers an overview of a people and a land with a hugely troubled recent history. Since 1999, Kosovo (The Republic of Kosovo) has been administered by the UN, with security provided by NATO and police and the court system underwritten by the EU. A brilliant piece of photo-reportage in the widest sense, Bán’s Kosovo captures historic events and their social ramifications with equal eloquence.
Andrej Bán’s prize-winning The Other Slovakia shows the real face of Slovakia, far from the clichés of the tourist brochures ‘undiscovered jewel of Eastern Europe’. Instead of a travel book, Bán shows us events and significant moments: the sovereignty bonfires celebrating Slovakia’s rebirth as an independent state, the consecration of a church, pilgrimages, religious services, folklore festivals, summer camps, games, public meetings. A fascinating picture emerges of a country that once formed the border between two worlds, full of the beautiful relics of a rich history, but also a country neglected and abandoned.
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saudek by Daniela Mrazkova Slovart 2016 HB 339 x 288 mm 448 pp Over 400 b&w and colour photographs 978 8 07391 982 5 £49.95 The Czech Republic has long been a land of mystery and magic, home to alchemists, artists and the original bohemians, all of them weavers of spells, creators of fantastic worlds of the imagination. The internationally famous Czech photographer Jan Saudek is no exception, and is equally uncompromising in pursuit of his own unique vision. For nearly four decades Saudek has created a parallel photographic universe, a two-dimensional home full of longing, peopled with the most extraordinary characters and coloured by desire. The timeless strength of his hand-tinted photographs lies in their poetic compositions and their forceful – at times ribald – pictorial language, with its overtones of medieval genre pictures and Baroque mythology. Rejecting traditional beauty in his famous nude photographs, Saudek shows the distinctively different: old women, fat women, children; real people in tableaux vivants that remind us of everything from surreal early movies to fin-de-siècle carnival nights. They exist outside time, a uniquely coloured and almost mythical theatre of dreams. Covering his debut in the 1950s through his lesser-known work to recent images, this dazzling collection offers us the true ‘velvet revolution’, fertile and unsettling images from the dreams we might still have.
jan saudek photography posterbook by Jan Saudek Slovart 2017 HB 420 x 300 mm 13 posters 978 8 07529 037 3 £12.95 This poster book is a collection of thirteen amazing pictures by Jan Saudek from 1958 to 1989. It gives a view of the evolution of Jan Saudek’s work, but also an insight into his world, full of characters, in colour as well as black and white; the space between dreams and reality, with desire and erotism revealed at the center of the compositions.
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anton podstrasky
matejka
by Aurel Hrabušický and Filip Vanco
by Aurel Hrabušický and Filip Vanco
Slovart 2018
Slovart 2017
HB 285 x 250 mm 160 pp
HB 285 x 250 mm 144 pp
978 8 05560 829 7 £29.95
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Anton Podstraský liked to capture the ups and downs of life, and his recordings of gloominess, helplessness and personal and social resignation became very important for the history of documentary photography. He was one of very few photographers who presented typical expressions of stagnation – the true picture of socialism in the final phase of its existence. He published most of his work during the 1960s, and in 1971, the first and so far only article on his work was published in a professional journal. At that time, Ľudovít Hlaváč, a photographic historian and curator, also noticed his work and published a brief profile of Podstraský in his extensive History of Slovak Photography, which was published in 1989.
malík
978 8 05562 896 7 £29.95 The photographic work of Ivan Matejka is connected with several paradoxes. Blessed with distinctive talent, he created his first noteworthy shots at the age of 16. It seemed that he took off as a photographer at full speed; his photographs were quickly exhibited, published and, from time to time, even received awards. However, he remains a little-known photographer. In fact, almost no one has seen his work from the past two decades. Ivan Matejka perceives the world as ‘chaotic and messy’. However, when it comes to photography, he thinks that ‘this mess must be removed. In a photographic picture, there must be order like the gears in a watch’. And so, for Matejka, roses bloom even in a junkyard. One simply has to be close enough, and supremely alert, in order to observe the world opening up for us in countless new views.
by Aurel Hrabušický
jÁn galanda
Slovart 2016
by Aurel Hrabušický
HB 285 x 250 mm 160 pp
Slovart 2014
978 8 05560 832 7 £29.95
HB 285 x 250 mm 136 pp
Viliam Malík was one of the most important exponents of modern photography in Slovakia in the 1930s and 1940s. Like most amateur photographers, he began with an interest in a wide range of subjects. Open-minded and engaged, Malík had a deep understanding of human situations, and excelled at showing the complex interactions of social existence. This beautifully printed book graphically documents Malík’s transition from static photography to modern dynamic reportage. His photographs have a particular appeal today thanks to Malík’s avoidance of the ephemeral effects favoured at the time, but they were not properly appreciated until the end of his long life.
978 8 05561 370 3 £29.95 Ján Galanda was an amateur; in his civil life he worked as a bank clerk. He didn’t begin to work systematically with photography until the first half of the 1930s, and, like the majority of amateur photographers, he mainly documented his leisure interests, such as travel, hiking and sports. But unlike others amateurs, Galanda created his photographs with precision and they feature a demanding and at times refined sense of composition. Although his subjects reflected modern lifestyles, his photographs remained timeless, splendid, unbiased and ‘captivated by beauty’. He depicted simple life events and natural human interests with visual fervour, and gave them new meaning. At the same time he also created a body of work on his many foreign trips, that portrayed a lifestyle seldom seen in his impoverished homeland.
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memories by Robert Vano Slovart 2017 HB 295 x 300 mm 296 pp 978 8 07529 265 0 £49.95 This book contains Robert Vano’s photographic recollections, 190 images from his own archive, arranged not chronologically but by personal association, making it truly a book of memories. In it, Vano celebrates not only the glamour of his life as a fashion photographer in New York, Paris and Milan, but also more personal photographs, including many of his peerless images of the male nude. Vano’s Memories is an exceptional book, dedicated to all his fans, and to lovers of classic and fashion photography.
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solid ground under one’s head by Martin Štrba Slovart 2017 HB 270 x 240 mm 144 pp 978 8 05562 596 6 £24.95 This selection of photographs by cameraman Martin Štrba (1961), an important representative of the Slovak New Wave, reflects the personal story of this artist and his unique bold and arresting compositions which are full of meaning. The publication is the first monograph to be presented to the wider public and critics. Martin Štrba doesn’t intend to shock the viewer; he just wants to talk. He doesn’t want to comprehend the whole world, only what he finds to be important. Love, faith, closeness, friendship. The men and women in his photographs are symbols at the same time as they are concrete people. He admits that he is inspired by surrealism, which is clearly visible in the absurd scenes of his work. The influence of film culture is also clear.
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karol plicka by Marián Pauer 2017 HB 280 x 240 mm 368 pp 978 8 05561 289 8 £69.00 Karol Plicka (1894-1987) was a Renaissance man who became a legend in the world of film, photography, ethnography, folklore, music and literature, and whose name is connected with the establishment of schools of film and photography in Bratislava and Prague. This monograph maps in detail the life and work of this incredible, but at the same time, almost forgotten, personality.
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when all the lands were sea photographs by Tor Eigeland foreword by Anthony Sattin Interlink 2015
HB 229 x 229 mm 112 pp 978 1 56656 982 8 £19.99 This remarkable collection of photographs, captured by internationally acclaimed photojournalist Tor Eigeland in 1967, offers unprecedented insight into the daily lives of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. These photographs illustrate the beauty of this unique environment – the marshlands between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers – and show a culture that existed practically unchanged for over 2,000 years. Some have even speculated that this place was the site of the original Garden of Eden. Under Saddam Hussein’s rule, vast areas of the marshlands were dammed and drained, causing catastrophic environmental damage and brutally forcing the marshes’ inhabitants to abandon their way of life. Now Eigeland’s photographic journey stands as a monument, a rare record of a lost world and an ancient civilisation. These precious photographs celebrate the people and culture of the marshlands and bring us back to a time and place where people lived in harmony with their environment.
faces of egypt: images and observations by Deborah Shea Doyle Crocodile Books 2014 PB 229 x 229 mm 114 pp
love wins: palestinian perseverance behind walls photography by Afzal Huda foreword by Phyllis Bennis Crocodile Books 2014 PB 292 x 209 mm 224 pp 978 1 56656 954 5 £16.99 During the summer of 2011, armed with a camera and a map, award-winning Canadian filmmaker and photographer Afzal Huda set out to chronicle the Separation Wall in Palestine. His aim was to magnify the ugly face of the Wall and depict the contradictions and hardships endured by human beings living under a military occupation. He was intent on showing the world what it was like to live in an open-air prison and how Palestinians have developed ways to cope with the Wall’s existence. Afzal spent three weeks doing just that: visiting all the Palestinian areas along the Wall and interviewing people young and old from all walks of life. But instead of the overwhelming reality of misery and suffering he had witnessed with his own eyes, his camera caught images of a contrasting nature: photos of people and faces of compassion, perseverance and hope rarely seen in mainstream media’s usual portrayal of Palestinians. The resulting book – conceived and beautifully designed by Waleed Abu-Ghazaleh – is a powerful photo journal that depicts the humanity of a resilient people. It is divided into four parts, each starting with a short introduction in English, Spanish, German, French, and Chinese followed by brief statistics taken from United Nation sources.
978 1 56656 961 3 £14.99 For ten years, photographer Deborah Shea Doyle travelled throughout Egypt – from bustling Cairo to remote parts of the Sinai region – to explore the landscape and learn about the lives of ordinary Egyptians, especially the Bedouins. She visited large cities and small villages and traversed through the country’s inaccessible areas, which presented her with a goldmine of opportunities to capture and record faces. Her splendid collection of photographs of ordinary Egyptian men, women and children invites readers to discover Egypt and its people as they have not been seen before. The humanity captured through her expert lens is matched by an engaging text and observations that give readers insight into the local customs and habits.
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magic places of the earth by Tomáš Míček Slovart 2017 HB 360 x 290 mm 384 pp 978 8 07529 328 2 £59 There are energetically charged buildings that are the handiwork of humanity: cathedrals, temples and other examples of artistic and cultural creativity. The photographer Tomáš Míček focusses on another type of magical place in this engaging collection of pictures: places brought forth by that great artist ‘Mother Nature’, places whose fantastic formations can most certainly compete with our sacred buildings and spaces. This is not the first time this master photographer has turned to the wonders of the Earth. He has already published the collections ‘Trees of the World’ and ‘Magic Stones’. This collection lies in the centre of a pentalogy. The planned fourth volume will be entitled Unique Plants of the World, and the final part is to once again pay homage to Planet Earth.
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racing ’n’ roll
by Filip Kulisev
by Martin Straka
Slovart 2017
Slovart 2017
HB 295 x 320 mm 408 pp
PB 300 x 300 mm 368 pp
978 8 09710 763 5 £59
978 8 07529 288 9 £49.95
Traveller and photographer Filip Kulisev has reworked his photographs of nature scenes over the past decade to make them among the world’s best. Through his photographs, Kulisev seeks to present the diversity and charm of earth’s four basic climatic zones at different times of the year. These zones also symbolise the four basic elements shaping the nature of our planet since its very beginning. More than 400 photographs taken by Kulisev during his travels highlight the geographical realities of the places he has visited. If you view them with open eyes and an open mind, you will see the symphony of the four elements of our planet, whether standing in front of the blood-red fire of Uluru in Australia, before the glacial walls of Svalbard, on the last bit of solid ground before the North Pole, or taking in the rich palette of colours of an Indian summer in Maine.
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Racing ’n’ Roll is as much a celebration of racing as of photography. Martin Straka knows racing from the inside out. As well as being a prize-winning photographer (he was awarded the Golden Eye in 2007), he is a leading Czech radio and TV commentator on motor-racing and rallies, well known for his coverage of the 24 Heures du Mans, WEC, Indycar, Blancpain GT, Paris-Dakar, among others. His photographs record not only the racing itself but also the atmosphere amongst fans and racers, on the track and at the pit-stop alike. Created with all the passion and knowledge of the true insider, the 400 images in this book capture motor-racing in all its excitement and emotion.
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ascher: the mad silkman by Konstantina Hlaváčková Slovart 2019 HB 220 x 280 mm 304 pp 978 8 07529 748 8 £59 FORTHCOMING SUMMER 2019 A beautifully designed publication about one of the most influential forces in post-war fashion – ASCHER Studio. Known for its fabrics chosen by couturiers for their drape, luminous colours and original patterns. Ascher – although the name and the brand are entirely unknown in the Czech Republic, in Western Europe they have been synonymous with fine textile design for more than seventy years. This book traces the story of Zika Ascher and his wife Lida, whose personal and professional lives played out against the dramatic history of the 20th century. After leaving Czechoslovakia in 1939, they built a highly successful enterprise in London that specialised in fashion fabrics. French, Italian and British designers and fashion houses chose Ascher textiles for their collections, including Dior, Balenciaga, Lanvin, Pierre Cardin, Yves Saint Laurent, Ronald Paterson, David Sassoon and Alberto Fabiani. Lida and Zika were especially celebrated for their Squares, a collection of luxurious printed scarves designed by famous artists such as Henry Moore, Henri Matisse and André Derain. The book weaves together all the different strands of their eventful lives to produce a comprehensive account that goes beyond the individual artistic, technical and business aspects. It devotes considerable attention to the years before Zika and Lida left Czechoslovakia in 1939 to go into exile in the United Kingdom, and it subsequently continues to map developments in their former homeland, which they never renounced. The book’s author is Konstantina Hlaváčková, the curator of the textiles and fashion collection at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. Lida and Zika’s son Peter Ascher has added some of his childhood memories.
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history of international fashion by Didier Grumbach Interlink 2014 HB 172 x 241 mm 480 pp 232 full colour, 158 b&w photos 978 1 56656 976 7 £29.99 You can’t ask for a more knowledgeable and entertaining guide to the art and business of fashion than Grumbach, who has long been at the epicenter of the industry. … [This book] is richly layered with up-close profiles, energetic and expert analysis, and insider tales enlightening and scandalous. Grumbach covers the evolution of haute couture and the knotty regulations that have controlled every aspect of its operations while tracing the careers of such indelible designers as Gabrielle Chanel, Christian Dior, Hubert de Givenchy, and Nina Ricci and onward to Issey Miyake, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, and Sonia Rykiel. He reveals shocking financial struggles and organizational battles and betrayals as outlandish and dramatic as over-the-top fashion shows. Grumbach’s dissection of the ready-to-wear world is even more compelling with its cast of intense personalities, cutthroat competition, and audacious practices, including the explosion in branding and licensing. … Just like the best designer clothes, this exposé is both dazzling and enduring Booklist, starred review
lost (m)ode: clothing culture in slovakia from 1945 to 1989 by Zuzana Šidlíková trans. by Elena and Paul McCullough Slovart 2017 HB 280 x 210 mm 248 pp 978 8 05562 732 8 £24.95 Lost (m)ODE captures over 40 years of clothing culture in Czechoslovakia during the socialist era. Post-war clothing design felt the intense pressure of the new ideology, demonstrated here with excerpts from newspapers and fashion magazines along with fashion photography. The book presents dress in the period from the cooperative manufacturers – focussed on the individualised, almost custom, fashion – through the segment of readyto-wear clothing and to the studio work of designers fighting to speak from the early 1980s. This publication also presents individuals who were lost within the anonymous atmosphere of Slovak clothing manufacturers, and interesting stories of designers, editors, models, tailors, photographers and others from the fashion industry. It will lead the reader through the forgotten world of mobile shops, the subculture of shops and fairs, and light up the catwalk with a parade of working yet fashionable ‘modern’ women.
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graphic design in slovakia after 1918: modernity of tradition by Ľubomír Longauer Slovart 2016 HB 280 x 230 mm 352 pp 978 8 05560 331 5 £59 The first part of Ľubomír Longauer planned cycle, Graphic Design in Slovakia after 1918, bears the name Modernity of Tradition. The author deals with the beginnings of Slovak graphic design. After a slow start there was an unprecedented expansion of Slovak cultural life. In the late twenties came Martin Benka, Andrej Kováčik, Jaroslav Vodrážka, Karol Ondreička, Jozef Cincík, and Štefan Bednár, and at the end of the 1930s also Rudolf Fabry. Each of them has their own portrait in the publication, presenting the artists’ work throughout their career. In addition, there are chapters that deal with the overall situation of Slovak graphic design between 1918 and 1938. The book is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of historical works, most of them previously unpublished. It is the first publication to survey the topic with this scope and depth.
graphic design in slovakia after 1918: taking off traditional clothes by Ľubomír Longaue Slovart 2016r HB 280 x 230 mm 352 pp 978 8 05561 067 2 £69 In Taking off Traditional Clothes, Longauer deals with the establishment of modern typography and graphic design in Slovakia. The book describes the avant-garde’s influence on Slovak visual art, which spread into Slovakia through the Czech Republic, as well as directly from the German Bauhaus and Communist Russia. Like the first volume, the publication examines all contexts, including the political issues and pressures faced by graphic artists. Like the previous volume, this book is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of historical works, most of them previously unpublished, and is the first publication to survey the topic with this scope and depth.
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typografikum: alphabet of contemporary visual communication & culture by Vladislav Rostoka and Dušan Junek Slovart 2017 HB 325 x 230 mm 288 pp 978 8 09715 091 4 £79.95 Over the past one hundred years, humanity has undergone a major transformation: from a civilization of words we have changed to one of images. The main elements of interpersonal communication have become signs, images, and symbols. Typografikum presents 26 large-profile graphic designers from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Europe, Asia and America – artists whose works significantly influenced the quality of visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries. This book is an extraordinary masterpiece of primary importance, addressed to both professional and lay readers and especially to today’s young creators. Yes, design can make you happy Stefan Sagmeister
typography and type design in slovakia: it all began with cyril and methodius by Ľubomír Longauer Slovart 2017 HB 295 x 245 mm 396 pp 978 8 08925 975 5 £64.95 Typography and Type Design in Slovakia documents the development of graphic design and the outcomes of graphic designers’ work in the area of typography and type design in Slovakia. The publication lists almost 90 designers, so the reader can observe the historical changes of typographical style and appreciate individual designers’ creative contributions to the development of this field of visual communication. The book includes a biographies of each designers, along with photographs and illustrations, including book covers, fonts and designs. Ľubomír Longauer was born in 1948 in Banská Bystrica. From 1963 to 1967 he studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Bratislava and from 1969 to 1975 at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Longauer taught at the Art Department of the People’s Art School in Topolcany and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava until 2003. He has worked for publishing houses, cultural institutions, galleries and theatres and designed hundreds of book covers, posters, brands and bulletins. He also produces non-commissioned design work. He has had 12 solo exhibitions and has been involved in many national and international exhibitions.
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20th century graphic designer: abram games by Naomi Games, Catherine Moriarty and June Rose Pallas Athene 2019 PB 220 x 257 mm 208 pp 180 colour illustrations 978 1 84368 177 9 £24.99
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Abram Games (1914–96) was one of the twentieth century’s most innovative and important graphic designers. In his 60year career, he designed some of the most enduring images in Britain. Games produced hundreds of posters as well as stamps, book jackets and emblems, including those for the Festival of Britain (1951) and BBC Television (1953). Other clients included British Airways, the Financial Times, Guinness and Shell. During the Second World War he was appointed Official War Poster Designer. His personal philosophy of ‘maximum meaning, minimum means’ gave all his works a distinctive conceptual and visual quality. This is a revised edition of the primary monograph on Games and features 180 colour illustrations of his best-known work as well as examples of unpublished designs and sketches from his own extensive archive. Naomi Games is Abram’s daughter. She works as a graphic designer, as well as organising a touring exhibition of her father’s work, lecturing and running his archive. Professor Catherine Moriarty is Curatorial Director of the University of Brighton Design Archives and Professor of Art and Design History at the University of Brighton. June Rose was a writer and journalist who wrote about art, society and women’s issues. A wonderful publication which brings to life both the man and his work The Jewish Chronicle This is a must for anyone interested in the history of modern poster design and the work of an irrepressible creative mind Creative Review
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the workes of william shakespeare: a flickbook by abram games PB 105 x 148 mm 104 pp Pallas Athene 2018 978 1 84368 137 3 £8.99 In 1975 Abram Games, one of Britain’s greatest graphic designers, was commissioned to make a fund-raising poster for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His brilliant solution was to become iconic: the face of Shakespeare built up from the titles of all the plays as they appear in the First Folio. The poster has been seen all over the world; but Abram Games intended much more. After his death, his daughter Naomi discovered a mockup he had made of a flickbook. As the reader flicked the pages, Games planned to make Shakespeare’s face gradually emerge. Pallas Athene is excited to be producing this little monument in the history of design, and will also be producing, as Games originally intended, other products using his image.
abram games’ shakespeare design tea towel Made in Northern Ireland from the finest linen. 48 x 74 cm
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travels with jan, pen and 2b by Anthony Cleminson Pallas Athene 2009 PB 240 x 168 mm 112 pp 978 1 84368 037 6 £19.99 With a rare combination of great economy of means and unfailing panache, Antony Cleminson’s drawings of buildings and urban settings are endlessly delightful and fascinating. Collected from over sixty years of travelling with his wife Jan, they take in England, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Croatia, Russia, Jordan, Syria and Yemen. They bring not only extreme sensitivity to place, but also an engineer’s understanding of structure, and an historian’s understanding of style. Pencil, chalk, charcoal, red and black ink, and india ink are some of the media used, and the book is printed on genuine Ingres paper to reproduce as closely as possible the look and feel of the original sketchbooks. No one interested in buildings or draughtsmanship could fail to respond to these works.
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monkey business: the lives and legends of the marx brothers by Simon Louvish Interlink 2019 PB 228 x 158 mm 480 pp 39 b&w photos 978 1 56656 033 7 £15.99 FORTHCOMING SUMMER 2019 This is the first full and properly researched biography of all five Marx Brothers – Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo and Zeppo. First and foremost, it is the saga of a family whose theatrical roots stretch back to mid-19th century Germany. From Groucho Marx’s first warblings with the singing Leroy Trio, this book brings to life the vanished world of America’s wild and boisterous variety circuits, leading to the Marx Brothers’ Broadway successes and their alliance with New York’s theatrical lions, George S. Kaufman and the ‘Algonquin Round Table’. Never-before-published scripts, well-minted Marxian dialogue and much madness and mayhem feature in this tale of the Brothers’ battles with Hollywood, their films, their loves and marriages, and the story of the forgotten brother Gummo. Simon Louvish is a biographer of comedians and author of satirical and outrageous fiction. He is a film screenwriter and teaches film at the London Film School. His film biographies include: Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Story of W. C. Fields, Chaplin: The Tramp’s Odyssey, Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy, Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennet, Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art, and Mae West: It Ain’t No Sin. [The Marx Brothers are] well captured in Simon Louvish’s zippy group portrait, Monkey Business, which ferrets out the facts behind the brothers’ often murky accounts of their lives with a care that never interferes with the fun Elle Told with tremendous style and sparkle, Louvish’s composite portrait of the Marx Brothers offers an indispensable overview of the actors’ saga. Decked out with photographs and sprinkled with excerpts from reviews, interviews, memoirs, film dialogue and hitherto unpublished skits and scripts, this biography captures the sheer exuberance of the foursome as they conquered vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood. Louvish gives equal billing to all the brothers... His fresh research clears up all manner of myths, embellishments and omissions in previous biographies and in the brothers’ autobiographies. In this invigorating reappraisal, the Marx Brothers, more than ‘Minnie and Sam’s boys who never grew up,’ are timeless satirists of pretension, folly, privilege and snobbery, in the tradition of Cervantes, Rabelais and Mark Twain. The ‘Four Horsemen of the Apoplexy,’ they embody an authentic acceptance of life’s absurdity as well as a desperate need to leave one’s mark Publishers Weekly
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chaplin: the tramp’s odyssey by Simon Louvish Interlink 2018 PB 228 x 158 mm 432 pp b&w photography 978 1 56656 011 5 £15.99
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An Everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled in the America that made him Hollywood’s richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes. Simon Louvish’s book, following his five major biographies of comedy’s classic stars, from W. C. Fields to Laurel and Hardy to Mae West, looks afresh at the ‘mask behind the man’. This book is an epic journey, summing up the roots of comedy and its appeal to audiences everywhere, who revelled in the clown’s raw energy, his ceaseless struggle against adversity, and his capacity to represent our own fears, foibles, dreams, inner demons and hopes. A handsome and absorbing book… Louvish’s tone is that of the dissecting surgeon overlaid with affection The Times
mae west: it ain’t no sin, 3rd edn Interlink 2018 PB 228 x 158 mm 528 pp b&w photography NEW
Sex goddess, Hollywood star, transgressive playwright, author, blues singer, and vaudeville brat – Mae West remains the 20th century’s greatest comedienne. She made an everlasting mark in trailblazing Broadway plays such as Sex and the Constant Sinner and in films such as She Done Him Wrong, Klondike Annie, and I’m No Angel. Mae West: It Ain’t No Sin is the first biography to make use of West’s recently uncovered personal papers, offering an unprecedented view into the endless creative drive and daring wit of this legendary star. Meticulously researched and finely crafted. Theatrical and cinematic history are skillfully related to the wider social and political background The Independent
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by Jack G. Shaheen new edn Interlink 2015 PB 152 x 229 mm 617 pp 978 1 56656 752 7 £24.99 Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver screen, painstakingly makes his case that ‘Arab’ has remained Hollywood’s shameless shorthand for ‘bad guy’, long after the movie industry has shifted its portrayal of other minority groups. In this comprehensive study of over one thousand films, arranged alphabetically in such chapters as ‘Villains’, ‘Sheikhs’, ‘Cameos’, and ‘Cliffhangers’, Shaheen documents the tendency to portray Muslim Arabs as Public Enemy #1: a brutal, heartless, uncivilized other bent on terrorizing civilized Westerners. Shaheen examines how and why such a stereotype has grown and spread in the film industry and what may be done to change Hollywood’s defamation of Arabs. A first-class book about harmful stereotypes... significant, comprehensive and engaging Tony Shalhoub, actor
by Simon Louvish
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reel bad arabs: how hollywood vilifies a people, 3rd edn
Jack Shaheen continues to be a piercing laser of fairness and sanity in pointing out Hollywood’s ongoing egregious smearing of Arabs. Rippling with smart insights, his book should be read by everyone who agrees that knowledge is society’s greatest tool in battling all kinds of stereotypes Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times TV Critic A meticulous, passionate, and very articulate description of the persistent and prolonged vilification of Arab peoples in mainstream Western movies Library Journal
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battleship yamato: of war, beauty and irony by Jan Morris Pallas Athene 2018 HB 135 x 195 mm 112 pp 50 illustrations 978 1 84368 147 2
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The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax of the Japanese warrior traditions of the samurai – the ideals of honour, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had immemorially ennobled the Japanese national consciousness. Stoically poised for battle in the spring of 1945 – when even Japan’s last desperate technique of arms, the kamikaze, was running short – Yamato was the last magnificent arrow in the imperial quiver of Emperor Hirohito. Here, Jan Morris not only tells the dramatic story of the magnificent ship itself – from secret wartime launch to futile sacrifice at Okinawa – but, more fundamentally, interprets the ship as an allegorical figure of war itself, in its splendour and its squalor, its heroism and its waste. Drawing on rich naval history and rhapsodic metaphors from international music and art, Battleship Yamato is a work of grand ironic elegy. Entertaining, ironical, witty, high-spirited and appreciative... melancholy and gay and wordly Geoffrey Grigson battleship yamato For yes, it is not only we, a century on, who know the fate of Ten-ichi-go. The sailors might cheer their captain, but all too many of them, we may be sure, understand what that message means. Yamato herself is to commit suicide, as the noblest of kamikaze weapons. At best she is to beach herself on an Okinawan coral and in her death-throes use all her guns, all her ammunition, all her heroes, in support of the Japanese army. At worst, she is simply to blast away at her enemies until she herself is sunk. Either way, she will act as a terrific decoy, to divert American attention from the frenzied last assaults of the kamikaze pilots. The Americans, we know now, have fallen upon Okinawa with 1,500 ships and 250,000 men, and they have thousands of attack aircraft on call.There is not a hope in hell for Yamato, her nine consorts and her patriots of the Second Fleet, except the wan and glorious hope of sacrifice. Among those who realize all this is Admiral Ariga himself, the
Opposite: Flight deck on USS Yorktown, winter 1943.The planes include Hellcats and Avengers.The ship later took part in the sinking of Yamato
ciao, carpaccio! an infatuation by Jan Morris new edn Pallas Athene 2019 135 x 195 mm 192 pp full colour illustration throughout HB 978 1 84368 1 328 £16.99 PB 978 1 84368 1 335 £12.99 NEW EDN FORTHCOMING
For Jan Morris, the Venetian Renaissance artist Caravaggio is far more than a charming painter, he is a close friend. This book is a meditiation on a 60-year-long infatuation – illustrated with nearly 200 details and full paintings. Morris tackles [the subject] with charm and gusto, infusing this amuse-bouche with vivid examples of the artist’s often overlooked eye for detail … We are reminded, quite elegantly, that there is more to Carpaccio than just thin slices of raw beef, some arugula and a drizzle of sauce William D. Cohan, New York Times Book Review One last time to Venice Michael Prodger interview in New Statesman
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british royal tombs by Aidan Dodson Pallas Athene 2018 PB 197 x 115 mm 320 pp Over 160 photographs and diagrams 978 1 84368 118 2 £14.99
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This fully revised edition of a book that became an immediate classic of its kind will be equally interesting to the visitor and the student. The fascinating text, crammed with unexpected detail, is now complemented by rich illustration, ranging from early photographs of Edward II’s spectacular tomb in Gloucester to cruel caricatures of the grave-visiting George IV spooked as Charles I lifts his head in greeting... British Royal Tombs covers all the burials of the kings, queens (and lords protector) of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom, from the occupant of the great Sutton Hoo ship burial, to George VI, last Emperor of India, including of course the long-lost Richard III. The career of each ruler is briefly described, followed by what is known about his or her burial arrangements and the subsequent history of the tomb and its contents. Each tomb is illustrated as far as possible by at least one photograph or drawing, and there are many further illustrations. The posthumous fate of royal spouses is also included, together with information on each of the cathedrals, churches, chapels and other structures that house or once housed royal tombs; there are detailed diagrams for the major sites. A list of monarchs, family trees and an extensive bibliography complete the book. Aidan Dodson is Hon Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology at the University of Bristol. Elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003, he was Simpson Professor at the American University in Cairo for the spring of 2013, and is the author of some twenty books and over 300 articles and reviews. introduction
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neighbours and rivals: paris and london by Louis-Sébastien Mercier trans. by Laurent Turcot and Jonathan Conlin Pallas Athene 2019 HB 195 mm x 135 mm192 pp over 90 colour illustrations £19.99/€19.99
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English ISBN 978 1 84368 136 6 French ISBN 978 1 84368 165 6
Written in the eighteenth century by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, this seminal work of travel writing was too anglophile for French readers of the time. It was to remain unpublished for over 200 years. Mercier first travelled to London, and began recording his impressions, in 1780. A leading exemplar of a new form of literature, less rigid and more reflexive, he presented emotive representations of the city as collections of experiences, habits and personalities. And in contrast to Dickens’s London or Baudelaire’s Paris, with their vivid contrasts of opulence and misery, Mercier’s descriptions transport us to a less familiar urban environment – one more optimistic, and perhaps even utopian. For this first publication in English, Laurent Turcot and Jonathan Conlin’s translation preserves all of the life and humour of Mercier’s text. It is profusely illustrated with contemporary images, with a particular emphasis on Thomas Rowlandson and Gabriel de Saint Aubin, a Parisian flâneur artiste. louis-sbastien mercier
voisines et rivales longtemps on ne le craint plus : au contraire ; la conduite de plusieurs rois leur a acquis beaucoup de cœurs, et avec d’autant plus de force qu’ils ont eu de peine à les gagner et de besoins à les acquérir. 2
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* les capons d’italiens, qui sont dans ce pays, dénigrent les Français pour se faire valoir et savourer leur propre ignominie ; il n’y a pas jusqu’aux espagnols, qui, oubliant leur propre inquisition et leur gouvernement despotique, font la cour aux anglais aux dépens des Français. le bon allié ! mais le vrai Hollandais, sur sa tonne d’or les surpasse tous : il est vrai qu’il ne pardonne pas la frayeur que leur fit louis XiV.
louis-sbastien mercier homme qui se sauverait. Car, en se sauvant, il dit à chacun : je suis coquin. le caractère de la nation anglaise paraît plus posé, moins étourdi que la française. le climat peut y contribuer : degré de consistance où elle est parvenue, au bout de tant de guerres civiles ; la part qu’elle a au gouvernement, le droit qu’elle a gagné de s’en mêler, le soin de conserver ce droit précieux, tout aide à lui imprimer de la réflexion ; fruit de son attention. la crainte qu’ils ont du joug de la France leur a fait éviter ses mœurs et ses coutumes ; attachés aux usages des peuples du nord dont ils tirent leur origine, la mer qui sépare Paris d’avec londres, est devenue pour eux une barrière secourable, qui les a garanti et les a rendu étrangers au port de Calais, comme à tous les autres plus éloignés. Tous les vaisseaux de toutes les parties du monde
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ous Henry Viii, on disait la messe à londres comme à Paris ; et l’anglais était bon papiste, et très soumis à la volonté de son roi très méchant. Ce roi anglican n’était pas déjà si éloigné d’être
ami avec François i er ; il était, disait ce dernier, ami jusqu’à l’autel. Voici qu’Henry Viii veut répudier sa femme et épouser une certaine Anne de Boleyn. le pape l’aurait bien voulu ; au bout du compte, qu’est-ce que cela lui faisait? pour ne pas se brouiller, les papes
Ci-contre : James Gillray, Politesse (1779). Attablé devant sa bière porter, son rôti de bœuf et son pouding aux fruits bien garni, Jack l’Anglais rudoie son compagnon français maniéré, revêtu de ses atouts, qui se contente de ses grenouilles et de sa soupe maigre.
abordent aux îles britanniques. beaucoup de nations donnent la préférence à londres sur Paris, parce qu’elle a ce commerce maritime, cette richesse ; et qu’on est soucieux sur sa liberté, à Paris *. donc, tous les hommes de toutes les religions ont préféré la sûreté de leurs biens dans un pays, où eux-mêmes pouvaient être élu membre du parlement, faire partie de la royauté. le protestantisme n’a point coûté à prendre à ceux qui n’en étaient pas, parce que cette religion n’a pas les charges et les particulières gênes de la catholique. donc beaucoup d’hommes ont, malgré les avantages qu’offrait la France, préféré se fixer en angleterre. londres s’est agrandi, enrichi, et a trouvé de toutes parts, par ses liaisons particulières avec tous les pays du monde, des trésors pour faire des guerres presque toujours terminées à son avantage. Tous ces différents peuples ont propagé des races d’hommes à londres, dont le caractère est
Louis-Marin Bonnet, le bon logis (1772). Un jeune home est invité à inspecter la propreté du logis comme il l’est indiqué sur la façade
Thomas Rowlandson, Un citoyen de londres et sa femme se promenant (17**).
the ancient egypt guide
the ancient ireland guide
by Prof. William J. Murnane
by Mel Gooding
Pallas Athene 2004
Interlink 2013
HB 203 x 150 mm 417 pp colour plates and b&w illustrations
PB 229 x 127 mm 228 pp
978 1 56656 858 6 £19.99 Originally published as the Penguin Guide to Ancient Egypt, William Murnane’s highly-acclaimed book has been fully revised and updated by Professor Aidan Dodson. This new edition will bring Murnane’s engaging yet rigorous learning to a new audience, complete with up-to-date guidebook information as well as a compact yet wide-ranging cultural history.
978 1 56656 914 9 £12.99 A splendid guidebook to Ireland’s spectacular antiquities- its passage tombs, ring forts, castles, Neolithic settlements, and monastic sites. With its witty and erudite explorations of Irish mythology, history, literature, archaeology, and architecture, this travel book makes for an excellent companion on a journey to Ireland that is also a journey back in time.
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magick city: travellers to rome from the middle ages to 1900 by Ronald T. Ridley Pallas Athene 2019 Vol. 1: 978 1 84368 067 3 300 pp 90 illustrations Vol. 2: 978 1 84368 139 7 260 pp 80 illustrations Vol. 3: 978 1 84368 140 3 330 pp 60 illustrations
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PB 214 x 141mm Each volume: £19.99 The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the Eternal City ever compiled – witty, profound and utterly entertaining. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, German, English and American sources, many hitherto neglected, Ronald Ridley has compiled an endlessly vivid and thought-provoking collage-portrait of Rome through the centuries. Familiar writers range from Abbot Suger to Mark Twain, Rabelais to Goethe, and they are joined by a host of less well known voices, each contributing lively and sometimes startling pictures of life in Rome. Illustrated with over 200 images, Magick City is published in three elegant volumes: The Middles Ages to the Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; and The Nineteenth Century, each complete in itself but enthralling together. Ronald T. Ridley first taught at the University of Sydney, then at the University of Melbourne, retiring in 2005 from a personal chair. His research interests concentrate on Egyptian and Roman history, historiography and archaeology. He is the author of some fifteen books, including a history of Rome; a translation of Zosimus; biographies of Bernardino Drovetti and Carlo Fea; and The Eagle and the Spade (the archaeology of Rome 1808-1814). He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, the Pontifical Academy of Roman Archaeology, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2019 he was awarded the highly prestigious Premio Daria Borghese
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Among several alleys which kept their green in all seasons, I admired the one to be seen at the entrance, both because of its length, and because of the palisades of laurels on both sides, refreshed by streams which ran all along it. I looked with pleasure on the espaliered oranges and lemons along the walls. I observed the various statues arranged everywhere, the animals, baths and urns, round and square. It is wonderful to see the fountains gushing on all sides, which sometimes, from the direction you least expect, thoroughly soak you… In a word, whatever precaution you take, you come out absolutely wet.
Guido Reni, Bacchus and Ariadne, c. 1620
Sommelsdyck, indeed, thought the villa Montalto surpassed the Borghese for its fountains, alleys, shade and freshness.68 On the Cælian, rich in classical remains, Ciriaco Mattei (1545-1615) employed Giacomo del Duca to transform a vineyard into the villa mattei (see ill. overleaf ), but it was Domenico Fontana who erected the Capitoline obelisk there in 1587. It is described by Johann Pflaumer in the 1620s as by far the most pleasing villa in Rome with its antiquities and shady cypresses. The antiquities included a complete Hercules, Cleopatra, three reclining girls with their limbs most elegantly entwined, a large head of Alexander, a shepherd and nymph, and satyrs. Two aviaries contained ‘a mass of singing and nesting birds’, there were statues of animals which seemed alive and breathing, and a multitude of elegant fountains. This was the one major sight of the city that Evelyn omitted, although he knew its upkeep cost 6,000 scudi per year, and the owner was bound to expend that sum on pain of forfeiture. The same mistake was not made by Mortoft. In the first room were two statues of Ceres, and Trajan on horseback; in another, Venus with her robe slipping low, Amicitia, a head of Virgil, another Ceres, and four great marble columns; in another, three sleeping Cupids, a drunken Silenus, Nero’s head, Cicero’s bust, a painting of
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wildly. One of the most inventive suggestions was Jupiter Panarius, who was connected with the Gallic siege where the Romans threw down bread (panis) from the Capitol; others thought it the Rhine, part of a Domitianic triumphal statue.83 The ‘trophies of marius’, in reality monuments of the late firstearly second century, had been moved by Sixtus V in 1590 from the nymphæum of Severus Alexander (modern piazza Vittorio) on the Esquiline to the balustrades of the Capitol. Here they were noted by Neumayer and Evelyn.84 A standard view of the forum (see ill. overleaf ) can be found in Jouvain in the 1670s. He described the fine alley of trees in two rows, the temple of Concord (Saturn) half buried, Jupiter Tonans (Vespasian), Jupiter Stator (Castor), Saturn (S Adriano) and Castor (SS Cosma and Damiano). The Arch of Severus was half-buried. The Mamertine prison was much visited. The so called temple of Concord still bears an inscription that it had been damaged by fire: Neumayer predictably identified this as Nero’s fire. Seeing the temple of Faustina, Lassells could not resist making an egregious error: poor Antoninus ‘could not make an honest woman of her in her lifetime, and yet he Nicholas Beatrizet, Marforio (before 1560)
Etienne du Pérac, Trophies of Marius, 1560s, on the Esquiline, before their removal to the Capitol
esteemed by all Persons such a rare piece that the like was never made by any man, the horse indeed is made so lively, that it wants nothing but life to make it a perfect horse, which made the famous Carver Isaak [sic] Angelo goe every day to view it. It is esteemed such a Rare piece that the Venetians offered the waight in gold for it.
Whatever possessed Jouvain, however, to describe it as a bronze statue of the emperor on a marble horse? And Montfaucon, who called it ‘an outstanding work’, thought it was beaten not cast82 – or so the learned (periti) thought. The reclining statue called ‘marforio’ (moved from the Forum to the Capitol in 1588) excited Neumayer’s attention. Its identity varied
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to the highlights: ‘the Germanicus, the Pescennius Niger, the Scipio, the Goddess Nænia, the Adonis and the Gladiator, are reckon’d the principal Antiquities’. This area had been transformed by Sixtus’ aqueducts. Liverdis described the gardens in 1660:
NATURE AND GARDENS
the life of the robin
on modern gardening
by David Lack introducted by David Lindo postscripts by David Harper and Peter Lack
by Horace Walpole
Pallas Athene 2016
PB 115 x 150 mm 64 pp with 2 engravings
PB 130 x 190 mm 320 pp 21 line illustrations by Robert Gillmor 978 1 84368 130 4 £12.99 The robin has now been voted Britain’s favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Yet its life was hardly understood when David Lack started his observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington Hall. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; that males will fight to the death but will also feed injured opponents; that couples will court and mate but then ignore each other; that most robins will die in any given year. The book he wrote is a landmark in natural history, not just for discoveries that changed ornithology, but because of the approachable style, sharpened with an acute wit. It reads as freshly and as fascinatingly today as when it was first written. This classic work, by the man voted the most influential ornithologist of the 20th century, is introduced by one of today’s best-known ornithologists, David Lindo, the Urban Birder and organiser of the 2015 vote. It includes postscripts by the author’s son, Peter Lack, and by today’s doyen of robin studies, David Harper. If you have never read this title you really must; it set the standard for accessible accounts of familiar species and has rarely been bettered BBC Wildlife Magazine
Pallas Athene 2004 introduced by Colin Amery
978 1 87342 983 9 £6.99 By a mile the most brilliant and most influential essay ever written on English garden history Tom Turner, Professor of Garden History, University of Greenwich Walpole single-handedly determined (or distorted) the writing of landscape architecture history to this day John Dixon Hunt For two centuries, Walpole’s essay mapped the whole landscape of the subject of gardening in England. However, the author was partial in the highest degree. Horace Walpole believed in progress, in modernization, and the superiority of everything English to almost everything that had gone before. He had a special dislike of Baroque gardens, as exemplified by Versailles, which for him symbolized absolutism, tyranny, and the oppression of nature.
upon the gardens of epicurus by Sir William Temple introduced by Colin Amery Pallas Athene 2004 PB 115 x 150 mm 64 pp 978 1 87342 984 6 £4.99 It started a line of thought and visual conceptions which were to dominate first England and then the world for two centuries. It is the first suggestion ever of a possible beauty fundamentally different from the formal, a beauty of irregularity and fancy Sir Nikolaus Pevsner Sir William Temple, diplomat, statesman and writer, retired to his garden in the 1680’s and wrote what has become one of the key texts, not only of gardening, but also of the English æsthetic.
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the english eccentrics by Dame Edith Sitwell introduced by Richard Ingrams Pallas Athene 2006 PB 140 x 215 mm 372 pp including 16 portraits 978 1 873429 73 0 £12.99 Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, says Dame Edith, because of ‘that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and the birthright of the British nation’. Hermits, sportsmen, quacks, mariners, the indefatigable British travellers, men of learning, men of living – here is a glorious gallery of the extremes of human nature portrayed with wit, sympathy, knowledge and love.
carnal by Kevin Jackson Pallas Athene 2015 PB 137 x 210 mm 320 pp 978 1 84368 111 3 £16.99 A collection of essays by one of Britian’s leading cultural observers. A veritable multiverse of odd scribblings, encompassing forgotten British filmmakers, cartoons and comic strips, rigorous French theorists, the occult..., presented in playful essays that are at once compulsively readable and formally sophisticated. Hanging out with Kevin Jackson, especially as he enters an appropriately undignified old age, is as close to holding court with Samuel Johnson as is still possible Kevin Flanagan I have heard it plausibly suggested that were the last 1,000 years of Western literary culture, and all of its cinematographic culture, to disappear from the earth, one of the things you’d need to be able to recreate it would be the contents of Kevin Jackson’s brain. Quite true; and it would moreover be a very interesting kind of Western culture: maybe a bit more vampire-heavy, more geared towards the esoteric than the canon has traditionally admitted; for although clearly a child of the Enlightenment, he has none of the disdain of the superstitious and (to use a word that he borrowed off the late John Peel, when the DJ imagined how George W Bush might mangle the word ‘spooky’) enspookulating that often comes with the territory Nicholas Lezard
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passionate attitudes by Matthew Sturgis Pallas Athene 2011 PB 210 x 148 mm 320 pp illustrated 978 1 84368 073 4 £16.99 ‘It is’, said Oscar Wilde, ‘personalities not principles that move the Age’. This was never more true than of the artistic world of the 1890s, over which Wilde himself presided. The decadent twilight of the Victorian age remains one of the most vivid periods of English culture. It was an age of artistic self-consciousness, during which writers and painters believed that they had to create not only their works but also their personae. In Passionate Attitudes, Matthew Sturgis examines the ways in which ambitious poets, penurious painters, canny publishers and a controversialist press all conspired in this double task, forging both the myth and fact of the decadent fin-de-siècle. When it first appeared, in 1995, Passionate Attitudes was hailed as a brilliant, useful and richly amusing introduction to the 1890s; it has since proved indispensable for anyone interested in the period. Out of print for several years, this is its first appearance in paperback.
recollections of oscar wilde by Charles Ricketts afterword by Matthew Sturgis Pallas Athene 2011 PB 258 x 162 mm 64 pp 978 1 84368 071 0 £19.99 Reprinted here for the first time since the limited edition of 1932, this is one of the most evocative and charming texts ever written about Oscar Wilde and the circles he moved in. Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), painter, illustrator, theatrical designer and publisher, was one of Wilde’s closest friends and collaborators. He later set up his own hugely influential presses. Shortly before he died, he finally wrote this account of his friendship with Wilde, partly as an imagined conversation with a fictitious French writer, Jean Paul Raymond.
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the american quarter by Jabbour Douaihy trans. by Paula Haydar
by Anan Ameri Interlink 2017
Interlink 2018 HB 203 x 133 mm 170 pp 978 1 56656 030 6 £11.99
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Jabbour Douaihy’s The American Quarter is set in the Mediterranean port city of Tripoli, on the northern coast of Lebanon. Unfolding at the height of the US-led invasion of Iraq, it revolves around the radicalisation of an ordinary youth named Ismail and his struggle to decide whether to carry out an assigned deadly mission. But the evolution of Ismail’s decision is part of a larger story involving his father, Bilal, a massacre survivor; his young disabled brother, whom Ismail looks after; his spirited mother Intisar, a maid like her mother before her in the wealthy, powerful Azzam household; and Abdelkarim, the Azzam family’s only son, addicted to poetry and opera, and pining for his lost Serbian ballerina – all candidly depicted by Douaihy with touching irony, warmth and humour.
always coca-cola by Alexandra Chreiteh trans. by Michelle Hartman
PB 229 x 153 mm 224 pp 978 1 56656 001 6 £15.99 Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri’s refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in the Arab world. A collection of twentythree vignettes, Ameri’s search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of her early life. While these stories – creative non-fictions – reverberate with the impact of enormous political upheavals and conflicts, The Scent of Jasmine demonstrates how the intricate bonds of family, community and place can nourish in us the creative capacity to reimagine and repair our world together.
the weight of paradise by Iman Humaydan Interlink 2017
Interlink 2013
PB 216 x 134 mm 244 pp
PB 204 x 134 mm 121 pp
978 1 56656 055 9 £12.99
978 1 56656 843 2 £9.99 Savage and heady debut… Always Coca-Cola... embeds, in a deceptively simple story, a razorsharp commentary on how young women in Beirut today are buffeted by the alternately conflicting and conspiring forces of hegemony, capitalism, and patriarchy – without, vitally, ever using such dry terms...we see the serious intention behind the gentle satire…Remarkably, given its short length – a little over a hundred pages – and its uncomplicated, at times even frothy, style, Always Coca-Cola comes off as a work of searing intensity that powerfully conjures the atmosphere of contemporary Beirut; it’s a testament to translator Michelle Hartman’s skill that a novel written mostly, but not entirely, in Modern Standard Arabic, the ‘literary language’ used in the Arab world, reads so naturally and humorously in English… Words without Borders
While making a documentary film about the reconstruction of downtown Beirut, Maya Amer stumbles upon a battered leather suitcase that will change her life forever. Inside it she finds letters, photographs, a diary and an envelope labelled ‘Letters from Istanbul’. The Weight of Paradise is both the story of Maya and her discovery and the story of the owner of these papers, Noura Abu Sawwan. A journalist, Noura fled Syria just before the Lebanese civil war to find greater freedom of expression. But as we learn from her diaries, her flight was also precipitated by her family’s denial of her sister’s suicide after she fell pregnant by a mukhabarat officer. The diaries lead us through the turmoil of Noura’s life, first in Syria and then in Beirut: her family’s resistance to political repression in her childhood and adolescence; the passionate love story she lived with Kemal Firat, her Turkish soulmate; the writing of the ‘Letters from Istanbul’; and her commitment to writing against injustice, including publishing her sister’s tragic story.
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the ninety-ninth floor by Jana Fawaz Elhassan
by Adania Shibli trans. by Paula Haydar
Interlink 2017
Interlink 2014
PB 204 x 134 mm 264 pp
PB 197 x 140 mm 72 pp
978 1 56656 054 2 £12.99 At times as cold and hard-edged as the skyscrapers in its backdrop, The Ninety-Ninth Floor follows the struggles and triumphs of Majed as he manages to make it in Manhattan at the turn of the century, after surviving the devastating 1982 massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. A Palestinian born and raised in Lebanon, Majed has never seen Palestine but is told by his father that his mother and her never-born baby, both slaughtered in the massacre, are waiting for him there. Injured and scarred by the war, he makes a new life for himself in the glittery world of New York City’s computer games industry. He never feels more satisfied with himself than when he is staring out of the window of his sleek, modern office on the ninety-ninth floor. But despite all his success, Majed’s past continues to haunt him. His relationship with Hilda, a Lebanese woman from a right-wing Christian family, exposes his innermost fears, worries and dark secrets. Hilda’s love for Majed is meant to overcome their differences. She tries to reconcile these even as he fantasises that her family members may have murdered his mother. The Ninety-Ninth Floor follows the stories of Majed and Hilda through the present and past in their own voices and those of the people who surround them.
ali and his russian mother by Alexandra Chreiteh trans. by Michelle Hartman Interlink 2017 PB 204 x 134 mm 144 pp 978 1 56656 092 4 £11.99
Like Chreiteh’s acclaimed first
novel, Always Coca-Cola, this story employs deceptively simple language and style to push the boundaries of what can be talked about in Arabic fiction. Again focused on the preoccupations of young people and their hopes for the future, Ali and His Russian Mother represents a fresh, daring voice in Arabic literature today.
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978 1 56656 807 4 £9.99 Touch centers on a girl, the youngest of nine sisters in a Palestinian family. In the singular world of this novella, this young woman’s everyday experiences – watching a funeral procession, fighting with her siblings, learning to read, perhaps falling in love – resonate until they have become as weighty as any national tragedy. The smallest sensations compel, the events of history only lurk at the edges – the question of Palestine, the massacre at Sabra and Shatila. In a language that feels at once natural and alienated, Shibli breaks with the traditions of modern Arabic fiction, creating a work that has been and will continue to be hailed across literatures. Here every ordinary word, ordinary action is a small stone dropped into water: of inevitable consequence. We find ourselves mesmerised one quiet ripple at a time.
all that’s left to you by Ghassan Kanafani Interlink 2017 PB 204 x 134mm 152pp 978 1 56656 548 6 £10.99 All That’s Left to You presents the vivid story of twenty-four hours in both the real and remembered lives of a brother and sister living in Gaza and separated from their family. The desert and time emerge as characters as Kanafani speaks through the desert, the brother and the sister to build the powerful rhythm of the narrative. The Palestinian attachment to land and family, and the sorrow over their loss, are symbolised by the young man’s unremitting anger and shame over his sister’s sexual disgrace. This collection of stories provides evidence to the Englishreading public of Kanafani’s position within modern Arabic literature. Not only was he committed to portraying the miseries and aspirations of his people, the Palestinians, for whose cause he died, but he was also an innovator in the extensive world of Arabic fiction.
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the bleeding of the stone by Ibrahim Al-Koni trans. by M. Jayyusi and C. Tingley Interlink 2013
PB 204 x 134 mm 160 pp 978 1 56656 417 5 £9.99 The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone Bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he and the moufflon together come under threat from hunters who have already slaughtered the once numerous desert gazelles. The novel combines pertinent ecological issues with a moving portrayal of traditional desert life and of the power of the human spirit to resist. A winning combination of ecological fable, political statement, and lyrical lament for the past Kirkus Reviews
we are all equally far from love by Adania Shibli trans. by Paul Starkey
flying carpets by Hedy Habra Interlink 2013 PB 204 x 134 mm 208 pp 978 1 56656 957 6 £9.99 Flying Carpets is a story collection in the grand tradition of Arab storytelling. In it, Habra masterfully waves her writing wand and takes us on a journey as we read about people and places far away and encounter temples and mountain villages, gliding boats and fragrant kitchens, flaming fish and rich tapestries. Hedy Habra’s Flying Carpets is a collection of enchantments and wonders charmingly recounted, deeply imagined, and composed with lyrical exactitude. It belongs to that rare tradition of books whose spells grow increasingly seductive with each new story Stuart Dybek, author of Coast of Chicago and Sailing With Magellan
the end of spring by Sahar Khalifeh trans. by Paula Haydar Interlink 2017
Interlink 2013
PB 204 x 134 mm 281 pp
PB 197 x 140 mm 148 pp
978 1 56656 681 0 £12.99
978 1 56656 863 0 £9.99 A young woman, asked at work to write a letter to an older man, does as she is told. So begins an enigmatic but passionate love affair conducted entirely in letters. A love affair? Maybe. Until his letters stop coming. Or... maybe the letters do not reach their intended recipient? Only the teenage Afaf, who works at the local post office, would know. Her favorite duty is to open the mail and inform her collaborator father of the contents – until she finds a mysterious set of love letters, apparently returned to their sender. In the hands of Adania Shibli, the discovery of these letters makes for a wrenching meditation on lives lived ensnared within the dictates of others. Adania Shibli’s second book We Are All Equally Far From Love confirms her as a rare, challenging talent Electronic Intifada
In The End of Spring, Sahar Khalifeh chronicles the struggle of the Palestinian people with a humane depiction of Palestinian resistance fighters during the 2002 siege of Yasir Arafat’s official headquarters. Khalifeh’s moving portrayal of her protagonists delves into the consciences of the men, women and children who were involved in the actual resistance – or were simply caught in the middle. These characters come alive through Khalifeh’s use of Palestinian colloquial diction, as does the setting, through her measured attention to the details of the natural surroundings in which the characters live, fight, and die. Khalifeh offers a Jerusalem beyond that which is delivered to foreign audiences through television and newspapers. She gives us humans with their own emotions and reasons, characters we want to help, people for whom we want to stop the tanks, bulldozers, and bombs Foreword Magazine
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sherazade
in the house un-american
by Leila Sebbar
by Benjamin Hollander
Interlink 2015
Interlink 2013
PB 204 x 134 mm 285 pp
PB 197 x 140 mm 150 pp
978 1 56656 988 0 £9.99
978 1 56656 927 9 £9.99
Sherazade is about a young woman haunted by her Algerian past. It is a powerful account of a person who searches for her true identity but is caught between worlds – Africa and Europe, her parents’ and her own, colony and capital. Ultimately it is an account of possession, identity and the realities of urban life today and what can happen when society fails to acknowledge its younger generations.
In the 1950s, a Puerto Rican Jew with roots in Leipzig and the Middle East lands in New York Harbor. So begins In the House Un-American, where Carlos ben Carlos Rossman, wannabe heir to the American poet William Carlos Williams and distant cousin of Kafka’s boy immigrant sensation Karl Rossman, is forever an absurdist stumble away from falling into a satirical wormhole.
oh, salaam!
snake catcher
by Najwa Barakat trans. by Luke Leafgren
by Naiyer Masud trans. by Muhammad Umar Memom
Interlink 2015
Interlink 2014
PB 204 x 134 mm 208 pp
HB 204 x 134 mm 320 pp
978 1 56656 992 7 £9.99
978 1 56656 629 2 £14.99
Oh, Salaam! tells the story of three friends whose lives are transformed by their participation in the inhuman civil war of some unnamed Arab country – and by their relationship with the novel’s anti-heroine, Salaam. The fast-reading plot is shocking throughout, yet it generates a compelling fascination to observe the ultimate consequences of violence and sexual exploitation. The depictions are challenging to read, but unfortunately they remain very relevant.
other lives by Iman Humaydan trans. by Michelle Hartman
Snake Catcher is the second collection of the acclaimed master story teller Naiyer Masud’s work to appear in English. Readers may find something of Kafka’s influence in these stories – or Borges, or Garcia Marquez, or Murakami. But it’s surely best to speak of these fictions as pure Masud, as no one else has rendered a fictional world like this one. Whatever else remains indeterminate, it is certain that at the center of each stands a solitary ‘I’, one among family and neighbours, one from whose consciousness the story emerges.
book of the sultan’s seal: the strange incidents from history in the city of mars
Interlink 2014
by Youssef Rakha trans. by Paul Starkey
PB 204 x 134 mm 153 pp
Interlink 2015
978 1 56656 962 0 £9.99
PB 204 x 134 mm 474 pp
‘Did I live many lives or only one life enough for many women?’ asks Miriyam in Other Lives. This third novel by Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan starkly and poignantly demonstrates how war, violence and dislocation have an impact not only on the lives of people who live through them but what life itself means, particularly for women.
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978 1 56656 991 0 £14.99 A chronicle of the decay of the city and a call to arms… the inter-textual references in this thoroughly hybrid text are astonishing… an outstanding first novel by an author who has a special ability to deal with modern and classical material, both Arab and western, with equal ease Al-Ahram Weekly
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ben barka lane by Mahmoud Saeed trans. by Kay Heikkinen
everything good will come by Sefi Atta
Interlink 2013
Interlink 2005
PB 204 x 134 mm 276 pp
PB 204 x 134 mm 366 pp
978 1 56656 926 2 £9.99 In Ben Barka Lane we see the Morocco of the late 1960s through the eyes of a young political exile from Iraqits beauty and misery, its unforgettable people. In this contemporary classic, Mahmoud Saeed offers us a unique portrait of a time and place, and a tale of the passion, politics, vengeance, and betrayal that take place there. ‘A landmark of the modern Arab novel,’ in the words of one critic, Ben Barka Lane is now, at last, in English translation, as compelling today as when first published.
the qadi and the fortune teller by Nabil Saleh Interlink 2008 PB 204 x 134 mm 147 pp 978 1 56656 714 5 £9.99 A leather-bound manuscript is found hidden in a wall of a house in the rubble of Beirut in the late 1970s. It is the diary of a Muslim judge in Ottoman Beirut in 1843 – a critical time for the Ottoman Empire and the European powers.
zigzag through the bitter-orange trees by Ersi Sotiropoulos trans. by Peter Green InterAlink 2013 PB 204 x 134 mm 234 pp 978 1 56656 937 8 £9.99 Weavng the stories of four disparate young people, Zigzag through the Bitter-Orange Trees was acclaimed in Greece as ‘the best novel of the decade’ and became the first novel to win both the Greek State Prize for Literature and the prestigious Book Critics’ Award. With disarming power, Sotiropoulos portrays the conflicted world of the youngpassionate and cynical, beautiful and grotesque
978 1 84437 056 6 £14.99 With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule- though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan’s brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door, the brash and beautiful Sheri Bakare?
gertrude by Hassam Najmi trans. by Roger Allen Interlink 2014 PB 204 x 134 mm 282 pp 978 1 56656 971 2 £9.99 As Hassan Najmi’s acclaimed novel begins, our unnamed narrator befriends an elderly man, Muhammad, who, as a young man, worked as a tour guide in the city of Tangier. Muhammad tells the narrator about his most famous clients, the renowned Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, who – on the recommendation of Henri Matisse – hired Muhammad as their guide when they visited Morocco. Now close to death, Muhammad begs the narrator to take his papers and write his life story. We learn that Muhammad accepted Stein’s invitation to visit her in Paris. He participated in Stein’s famous salon, meeting the many luminaries in Stein’s circle. As the narrator is drawn into Muhammad’s story, he finds himself also drawn to a beautiful African-American woman who becomes as interested in the story of Stein’s visit to Morocco as she is in the young Moroccan who is researching it. Together they continue their quest into the past to rediscover Stein, in a novel that bursts with different varieties of passion at the hands of a master storyteller and poet.
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sugar comes from arabic: a beginner’s guide to arabic letters and words, 2nd edn by Barbara Whitesides Interlink 2018
Clear, concise illustrations show how to draw and remember each letter. Colour photographs and explorations of individual words reveal important and often unrecognised connections between the West and the Arab world, such as the delicious gift of sugar. Sugar Comes from Arabic! is an exciting entry into the language of more than 20 countries and more than 300 million people.
This book makes the Arabic alphabet much more approachPB 280 x 228 mm 136 pp full-colour illustrations throughout, able for the complete beginner, and can generate enthusiasm for expanded study of the language Paul Beran, Director, spiral bound The Outreach Center, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 978 1 56656 012 2 Harvard University £15.99 No other Arabic alphabet book demystifies the letters in such a comfortable way, introducing them in English alphabetical order and using the spelling of English names and words as a way to learn the Arabic. Look up matching letters, follow the directions, and soon you’ll be writing your own name in Arabic!
SPIRITUALITY
divine names by Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi Interlink 2015 PB 204 x 204 mm 288 pp
by Kevin Jackson with a foreword by Richard Coles
978 1 56656 987 3 £15.99
PB 178 x 110 mm 128 pp 16 pages in colour
Divine Names is a unique contribution to understanding life and oneself on a deeper level, by learning to open to the Divine. It draws on original Arabic literature and the author’s many years of personal practice, teaching and guiding others on their spiritual paths to healing. Whether we admit it or not, human beings are searchers. Our quest may take many forms, yet ultimately it ends in nothing but pure praising of the Divine, even if this comes after our last breath. The outside always furthers the inside because the task and the meaning of life is always about reuniting – about connecting everything on the outside to its inner truth. It is the knowledge of the heart which is always capable of uniting. Such is the path of the Sufis. The Sufi tradition centers on the opening of the heart and nothing touches the heart as much as beauty. In this book, the author’s unique style of writing is coupled with distinctive and ornamental Arabic calligraphy of the 99 Divine Names to make it a stunning tribute to this tradition. It will be enjoyed regardless of a person’s religious beliefs.
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coles to jerusalem: a pilgrimage to the holy land with rev. richard coles
978 1 84368 143 4 £9.99 In Easter 2014, Britain’s best-loved vicar, the Rev. Richard Coles, led a pilgrimage to all the major historic sites of the Holy Land. All of the pilgrims in his care were practising Christians, except one: the writer Kevin Jackson, a diffident and sympathetic atheist intrigued by the chance to take part in this modern-day version of an ancient act of piety, and to learn some more about his old friend, the media clergyman. Coles to Jerusalem is Kevin Jackson’s light-hearted diary of that pilgrimage, and a close-up portrait of Richard Coles both as priest and as man. As the journey proceeds, Coles reminisces at length about his past life as a rock star and radical gay agitator, his new life as a spiritual leader and a popular broadcaster on BBC radio and television, and the strange, unpredictable path that led him from self-destructive debauchery to faith and vocation.
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my nakba: a palestinian’s odyssey of love and hope by Samir Toubassy Interlink 2019 PB 228 x 152 mm 192 pp 978 1 62371 917 3 £15.99 FORTHCOMING SUMMER 2019 The exodus of Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 war – the Nakba, or catastrophe – is the starting point for this memoir by Samir Toubassy. But it is his trek to excel, while wrestling with his roots and identity as a Palestinian in the shadow of his family’s expulsion that is at the heart of his story. Global business leader, philanthropist, and educator, Samir Toubassy left Jaffa with his family when he was nine, seeking refuge from the fighting that had engulfed their city. Amid never-ending turbulence, we accompany him from Jaffa to Tripoli, to Beirut where he becomes a student of business and politics, to Riyadh, London and finally to the US, as he seeks to raise a family and build an international business career, most prominently with the noted Olayan Group and its rags-to-riches founder Sulaiman Olayan. After a long career in international business, Samir embarks on a new path, as a Harvard Advanced Leadership Senior Fellow, seeking to apply his experience to global education in the developing world. Toubassy shatters glass ceilings that hold Palestinians back over lifetimes and generations. But his race to achieve and to succeed is always inseparably tied to, and tempered by, the fate of his homeland. Searching to regain what is lost, his memoir My Nakba offers unique perspective, encouragement, and cherished lessons learned from the aspirations of a refugee. Samir Toubassy is a global business leader, philanthropist and educator. After a long career in international business, Samir embarks on a new path, as a Harvard Advanced Leadership Senior Fellow, seeking to apply his experience to global education in the developing world. Samir Toubassy lived a life rich in valour and achievements. His memoir – a beautiful narrative full of emotions, events and valuable historical information – will leave an indelible mark on its readers Prof. Fawaz Tuqan, American Unversity of Beirut
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reclaiming judaism from zionism: stories of personal ed by Carolyn L. Karcher Interlink 2019 PB 228 x 152 mm 320 pp 978 1 62371 917 3 £15.99 FORTHCOMING SUMMER 2019 Today Jews face a choice. We can be loyal to the ethical imperatives at the heart of Judaism—love the stranger, pursue justice, and repair the world. Or we can give our unconditional support to the state of Israel. It is a choice between Judaism as a religion and the nationalist ideology of Zionism, which is usurping that religion. In this powerful collection of personal narratives, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range of stories about the roads they have travelled from a Zionist world view to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build an inclusive society founded on justice, equality, and peaceful coexistence. Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism will be controversial. Its contributors welcome the long overdue public debate. They want to demolish stereotypes of dissenting Jews as “selfhating,” traitorous, and anti-Semitic. They want to introduce readers to the large and growing community of Jewish activists who have created organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and Open Hillel. They want to strengthen alliances with progressives of all faiths. Above all, they want to nurture models of Jewish identity that replace ethnic exclusiveness with solidarity, Zionism with a Judaism once again nourished by a transcendent ethical vision. Contributors include: Joel Beinin • Sami Shalom Chetrit • Ilise Benshushan Cohen • Marjorie Cohn • Rabbi Michael Davis • Hasia R. Diner • Marjorie N. Feld • Chris Godshall • Ariel Gold • Noah Habeeb • Claris Harbon • Linda Hess • Rabbi Linda Holtzman • Yael Horowitz • Carolyn L. Karcher • Mira Klein • Sydney Levy • Ben Lorber • Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber • Carly Manes • Moriah Ella Mason • Seth Morrison • Eliza Rose Moss-Horwitz • Hilton Obenzinger • Henri Picciotto • Ned Rosch • Rabbi Brant Rosen • Alice Rothchild • Tali Ruskin • Cathy Lisa Schneider • Natalia Dubno Shevin • Ella Shohat • Emily Siegel • Rebecca Subar • Cecilie Surasky • Rebecca Vilkomerson • Jordan Wilson-Dalzell • Rachel Winsberg • Rabbi Alissa Wise • Charlie Wood These powerful stories send a message about the resilience and passion of a courageous group of Jews who have come to the realization that the state of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians does not live up to the ethical standards Jewish tradition demands.... Their commitment to live a Jewish life without Zionism bodes well for the future of Judaism Rebecca T. Alpert, Professor of Religion, Temple University Required reading for Jews, and engaging reading for everyone Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University
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israel: democracy or apartheid state? Interlink 2019
a vision for my father: the life and work of palestinian-american artist and designer rajie cook
PB 201 x 132 mm 120 pp
by Rajie Cook
978 1 56656 029 0 £10.99
Interlink 2019
by Josh Ruebner
NEW
2017 marked a year of significant milestones in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One hundred years earlier, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, calling for the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. Then, in 1947, the UN recommended the partition of Palestine into two states – a Jewish state and an Arab state. The decision paved the way for the establishment of the State of Israel a year later on 78 percent of historic Palestine, amid widespread ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinian inhabitants. 1967 then saw the beginning of Israel’s military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip – an occupation which endures to this day. In light of these milestones, Josh Ruebner draws on personal anecdotes and reflections, historical documents, and legal analyses to answer one of the most pressing issues in international affairs today: is Israel a democracy or does its separate and unequal treatment of the Palestinian people render it an apartheid state?
seeking palestine: new palestinian writing on exile and home ed. by Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh Interlink 2013 PB 229 x 152 mm 202 pp 978 1 56656 906 4 £9.99
HB 274 x 229 mm 344 pp Full colour illustrations 978 1 56656 032 0 £26.99
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Rajie Cook is the son of Palestinian immigrants Najeeb and Jaleela Cook who came to the US in search of peace and opportunity for themselves and their family. This memoir is a tribute to them but evolves into a narrative of how their son made his mark on the international stage of graphic design. Now, using his art as his voice, Rajie has lifted the veil of what people see or think they see with regard to the Palestinian people. Some of his photographs are disturbing, and his experiences are equally unsettling, because Rajie narrates the truth as he sees it. The pain of the Palestinian people cries out though Rajie’s art and activism – the horror of the Occupation, the brutality of life that Palestinian children experience every day. Rajie wants the world to see what he has seen, and, like his father before him, yearns for peace to come to this troubled and tortured region. A powerful and poignant expression of the Palestinian narrative of exile weaving together the aesthetic and the personal story of longing for home. Rajie Cook’s personal account is an intimate revelation of the special bond between father and son in the context of the Palestinian national identity and experience. This revelation emanates from an emotional identification with an attachment to the father as a visual and artistic celebration of creative expression. The narrative is therefore multifaceted; yet it unravels in the context of an exile in the West that is essentially discriminatory and dismissive of the humanity of the Palestinian people individually and collectively Dr. Hanan Ashrawi
Fifteen innovative and outstanding Palestinian writers – essayists, poets, novelists, critics, artists and memoirists – respond with their reflections, experiences, memories and polemics. What is it like, in the words of Lila Abu-Lughod, to be ‘drafted into being Palestinian?’ What happens when you take your American children – as Sharif Elmusa does – to the refugee camp where you were raised? And how can you convince, as Suad Amiry attempts to do, a weary airport official to continue searching for a code for a country that isn’t recognised?
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drones and targeted killing: legal, moral and geopolitical issues, 2nd edn ed. by Marjorie Cohn foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
jerusalem interrupted: modernity and colonial transformation 1917–present ed. by Lena Jayyusi
new edn Interlink 2018
Interlink 2015
PB 229 x 152 mm 296 pp
PB 235 x 190 mm 552 pp colour photography throughout
978 1 56656 003 0 £19.99 The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected terrorists; the Obama administration assassinated them; and the Trump administration will likely do both. Assassination or targeted killing off the battlefield is illegal. In this interdisciplinary collection, human rights and political activists, policy analysts, lawyers, a philosopher, a journalist and a sociologist examine different aspects of the US policy of targeted killing. The legality, morality and geopolitical implications are explored as well as the impact on relations between the US and the affected countries. Contributors include: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Phyllis Bennis, Medea Benjamin, Marjorie Cohn, Richard Falk, Tom Hayden, Pardiss Kebriaei, Jane Mayer, Ishai Menuchin, Jeanne Mirer, John Quigley, Dr. Tom Reifer, Alice Ross, Jay Stanley, and Harry Van der Linden.
extraordinary rendition by Ru Freeman Interlink 2017 PB 229 x 153 mm 452 pp 978 1 56656 060 3 £24.99 This collection brings together the work of 65 prominent writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and beyond. The anthology as a whole counters the dehumanising narrative about Palestine that has taken hold in the United States, often supported by mainstream news organisations, and makes a significant contribution toward an understanding of the ways people of conscience in general, and writers in particular, can take on one of the most pressing political questions of our time.
978 1 56656 787 9 £39.99 Most histories of twentieth-century Jerusalem published in English focus on the city’s Jewish life and neighbourhoods. This book offers a crucial balance to that history. On the eve of the British Mandate in 1917, Jerusalemite Arab society was rooted, diverse and connected to other cities, towns and rural areas in Palestine. A cosmopolitan city, Jerusalem saw a continuous and dynamic infusion of immigrants and travellers, many of whom stayed and made the city theirs. Over the course of the three decades of the Mandate, Arab society in Jerusalem continued to develop a vibrant, networked and increasingly sophisticated milieu. No one then could have imagined the radical rupture that would come in 1948, with the end of the Mandate and the establishment of the State of Israel. This groundbreaking collection of essays brings together distinguished scholars and writers and follows the history of Jerusalem from the culturally diverse Mandate period through its transformation into a predominantly Jewish city. Essays detail often unexplored dimensions of the social and political fabric of a city that was rendered increasingly taut and fragile, even as areas of mutual interaction and shared institutions and neighbourhoods between Arabs and Jews continued to develop. Focusing on the city which many consider to lie at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, this book presents a panorama of real life in Arab Jerusalem, particularly during the British Mandate years – and how it abruptly changed in 1948 Jordan Times
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understanding the palestinianisraeli conflict: a primer, 5th edn by Phyllis Bennis new edn Interlink 2018 PB 178 x 108 mm 240 pp 978 1 62371 987 6 £9.99 Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies) utilizes a question and answer format in order to provide a wellinformed and, considering its brevity, surprisingly detailed primer on Israeli-Palestinian history and politics for an American audience seeking to understand US policy in the region. Bennis assumes almost no prior knowledge of the region and even answers such introductory questions as ‘Why are the Palestinians in Israel at all?’ She also provides significant detail on UN resolutions concerning the conflict, the role of other states and the United Nations’ in the conflict, the diplomatic intricacies of the so-called peace process, Israeli violations of international law, and the impact of important events such as the occupation of Iraq and the Israeli war in Southern Lebanon. All but the most expert will likely learn something and the neophyte will greatly benefit in understanding by reading this book Book News
understanding the us-iran crisis by Phyllis Bennis Interlink 2008 PB 178 x 108 mm 134 pp 978 1 56656 731 2 £6.99 The Bush administration spent years claiming the worst about Iran – its nuclear ambitions, its support for terrorism, its ambitions in the Middle East – and war has often seemed only a step away. How did relations between the US and Iran come to be in this state? Is Iran in fact a serious threat? Which of these dire claims are even true? This primer provides an essential history and analysis of US-Iranian relations and their current state of crisis. Bennis’s clarity and expertise provide a counterweight to America’s aggression toward Iran as she explores how the two nations can move forward without war. This book is an invaluable response to years of fear-mongering, giving voice to diplomats, activists and all those concerned with stopping the cycle of violence across the region.
the birth of the arab citizen and the changing middle east ed. by Stuart Schaar Interlink 2016 PB 229 x 153 mm 326 pp 978 1 56656 973 6 £18.99 The widespread revolt which began with the Tunisian revolution of December 2010 and inspired uprisings in several Arab countries is arguably one of the most important events to take place in the Middle East this century. Never has there been a more massive outpouring into the streets of people young and old calling for democracy and civil rights, demanding a say in how and by whom they are governed. But despite the wide popularity of the uprisings, despite the successes and overthrow of major dictatorships, and despite the revolt’s enormous costs in human life and economic hardship, the Arab world remains a tense region, the so-called Arab Spring an unfinished and uncertain cause. This collection of original essays by 21 internationally respected scholars and experts explores the underlying tensions and conditions that gave rise to the revolts of the Arab Spring in 2010-11 – social, political, economic and ideological – and explains how Arab citizens are defining new destinies for their societies. It begins with country-bycountry studies of what transpired in many of the revolts and contains analysis of those societies which avoided mass upheavals. It also deals with social and cultural transformations in the realms of the symbolism of immolation, cinema, art, music, social and mass media, and economy that helped define new beginnings that confronted old entrenched forces. This unique, insightful and timely compendium, which combines the scholarship of both young and seasoned specialists, is an essential resource for understanding the popular uprisings and the future of the Middle East and North Africa.
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palestinian costume by Shelagh Weir Interlink 2008 PB 273 x 216 mm 288 pp full-colour photography 978 1 84437 079 5 £24.99 The traditional costumes of the Palestinian villagers and Bedouin are of exceptional beauty and diversity, especially the festive costumes of the women with their lavish silk embroidery and patchwork, and their dramatic headdresses encrusted with coins. This book surveys male and female fashions from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth and describes the main regional styles of costume, their materials and ornamentation, against the background of Palestinian life and culture. The emphasis throughout the book is on the social and symbolic significance of costume, and the final chapters analyse in detail the language of costume in the context of the wedding. The book is based on extensive field research the author has conducted at intervals since 1967 among Palestinians in Israel, the Occupied Territories and Jordan. The illustrations include studio photographs of magnificent garments in museum collections, archive photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and recent photographs of costumes still made and worn.
islam in retrospect: recovering the message by Maher S. Mahmassani Interlink 2014 PB 152 x 228 mm 793 pp 978 1 56656 922 4 £19.99 Islam, in many of its current guises, no longer resembles its original message. In a world of intractable conflicts plagued by political Islam and Islamophobia – and where other forms of fundamentalism within the major religious creeds are on the rise as well – this book serves as a reminder. It aims to recover and reaffirm Islam’s underlying and guiding principles. Setting out to distinguish the divine from the human in order to elucidate the pristine nature of the divine message, Mahmassani reasserts Islam’s universal, secular and progressive character.
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a comprehensive dictionary of the middle east by Dilip Hiro Interlink 2013 PB 229 x 152 mm 756 pp 978 1 56656 904 0 £19.99 In this painstakingly researched dictionary, author Dilip Hiro brings one of the most tumultuous regions of the world to our fingertips. Easy to read, simple to use, authoritative, and comprehensive, it offers a wide range of alphabetically arranged information on subjects ranging from current affairs, history and politics to religions, literature and tourist destinations. Topics covered include: Arab Spring, Arab-Israeli Wars, Biographies, Christianity and Christian Sects, Civil Wars, Country Profiles, Ethnic Groups, Government, Gulf Wars, Historical Places, History, Hostages, International Agreements and Treaties, Islam and Islamic Sects, Judaism and Jewish Sects, Languages, Literary Personalities, Military and Military Leaders, Nonconventional and Nuclear Weapons, Oil and Gas, Peace Process, Politics, Regional Conflicts, Religion, Terrorism, Tourist Destinations, United Nations, and much more. Hiro is a well-respected expert on Middle Eastern, Islamic and central Asian affairs, and this latest work illustrates his deep and broad knowledge of this region. … He gives equal time to both sides of a conflict or disagreement without passing judgment or editorializing, making this an excellent reference source for readers and students interested in solid, fair explanations of the history of, and frequently contentious issues at play in, the Middle East. For this reason, as well as for its very reasonable price tag, A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Middle East is highly recommended for secondary school and college students and for the both the specialist and the general reader interested in the region Library Journal Thoroughly researched... a must-have reference... Easy to use, comprehensive and clearly written Banipal, magazine of Modern Arab Literature (London)
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the storyteller of jerusalem: the life and times of wasif jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 ed. by Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar
renaissance emir: a druze warlord at the court of the medici by T. J. Gorton Interlink 2014
Interlink 2013
PB 229 x 152 mm 226 pp b&w photography
PB 229 x 152 mm 304 pp b&w photography
978 1 56656 963 7 £14.99
978 1 56656 925 5 £16.99 Spanning over four decades, the memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh cover a period of enormous and turbulent change in Jerusalem’s history, but change lived and recalled from the daily vantage point of the street storyteller. Oud player, music lover, ethnographer, poet, collector, partygoer, satirist, civil servant, local historian, devoted son, husband, father and person of faith, Wasif viewed the life of his city through multiple roles and lenses. The result is a vibrant, unpredictable, sprawling collection of anecdotes, observations and yearnings as varied as the city itself. Reflecting the times of Ottoman rule, the British mandate, and the run-up to the founding of the state of Israel, The Storyteller of Jerusalem offers intimate glimpses of people and events, and of forces promoting confined, divisive ethnic and sectarian identities. Yet, through his passionate immersion in the life of the city, Wasif reveals the communitarian ethos that runs so powerfully through Jerusalem’s past – one that offers perhaps the best hope for its future.
iraq: an illustrated history by Gilles Munier Interlink 2004 PB 204 x 127 mm 240 pp full-colour photography 978 1 84437 018 4 £12.99 Gilles Munier travelled extensively in this war-torn country and brings a refreshingly compassionate vision of the land that was once the cradle of humanity. Embark upon a voyage to where writing was first invented, to the city that was the center of the Arab Golden Age, to where much that we still are once began.
Fakhr ad-Din Ma’n, one of the most flamboyant figures of the seventeenth century, bestrode two worlds. Ted Gorton’s vivid and well-researched account of Fakhr ad-Din’s ultimately tragic career guides us into the labyrinths of politics in both the Ottoman Empire and Medici Tuscany Robert Irwin, author of The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature Fakhr ad-Din’s story is unique… an interesting character condemned to live in interesting times, a period Renaissance Emir does an excellent job of evoking… Now, thanks to original research by T. G. Gorton, and his extensive use of contemporary Arabic and European sources, Fakhr ad-Din’s story can be more fully appreciated… Renaissance Emir is an original and informative book which will go a long way to redressing its subject’s undeserved obscurity Times Literary Supplement
A groundbreaking biography of the mysterious Levantine prince Fakr ad-Din. The year is 1613: the Ottoman Empire is at its height, sprawling from Hungary to Iraq, Morocco to Yemen. One man dares to challenge it: the Prince of the mysterious Druze sect in Mount Lebanon, Fakhr ad-Din. Yielding before a mighty army sent to conquer him, he – astonishingly – takes refuge with the Medici in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. Fakhr ad-Din took along with him a diverse party of Moslem, Christian and Jewish Levantines on their first visit to the ‘Lands of the Christians’. During his five-year stay in Italy, he fights to persuade Popes, Grand-Dukes and Viceroys to support a grand plan: a new Crusade to wrest the Holy Land from the Ottomans, giving Jerusalem back to Christendom and himself a crown. This groundbreaking biography of Fakhr ad-Din, Prince of the Druze, is based on the author’s vivid new translations of contemporary sources in Arabic and other languages. It brings to life one remarkable man’s beliefs and ambitions, uniquely illuminating the elusive interface between Eastern and Western culture.
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indivisible: global leaders on shared security ed. by Ru Freeman and Kerry Kennedy Interlink 2019 PB 220 x 150 mm 320 pp 978 1 62371 972 2 £19.99
NEW SPRING 2019
A world-renowned cast of writers – from esteemed peace maker Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the twenty-eight year old UN Secretary General’s Envoy for Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, and award-winning novelist and creator of Narrative 4, Colum McCann—disavow the notion of security as stemming from walls, x-ray machines, armed security forces, and other militarised means of separating one population or group from another, refuse to identify particular groups or demographics as threats to other groups, and redefine security as being inclusive and egalitarian. Taken together these global citizens articulate a persuasive and powerful argument in favour of a new way of looking at a world where we reframe security as a shared goal. This is an exceptional compilation of voices whose places of origin reflect the world of which they speak, and who, in chorus, become a testament to the fact that we can come together, no matter how far-flung we are, how solitary our endeavours, to shape our common future. Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan and American writer whose work appears internationally, including in the Guardian and the New York Times. She is the author of the novels A Disobedient Girl (2009) and On Sal Mal Lane (2013), a New York Times Editor’s Choice Book, both appearing in translation, and editor of Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine (2015). She teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Kerri Kennedy is the Associate General Secretary for International Programs at the American Friends Service Committee. She has 18 years of experience in over 40 countries, managing international development and emergency response programs in areas of conflict and post conflict environments with a focus on inclusive governance systems, civic education, and advocacy campaigns, gender, and rights-based policy development. Contributors include: Andrei Gómez-Suárez • Andrés Álvarez Castañeda • Ashutosh Varshney • Aye Sandar Chit • Azza Karam • Brian Ganson • Cindy & Craig Corrie • Colum McCann • Desmond Tutu • Diana Francis • George Lakey • Hajer Sharief • Hussein Murtaja • Jacinda Ardern • Jason Tower • Jayathma Wickramanayake • Jimmy Carter • John Freeman • John Paul Lederach • Joyce Ajlouny • Kessy Martine Ekomo-Soignet • Khaled Mansour • Khine Thurein • Khury Petersen-Smith • Lana Baydas • Li Yingtao • Lucy Roberts • Malual Bol Kiir • Maria J. Stephan • Matilda Flemming • Maya Tudor • Nancy Lindborg • Nigel Nyamutumbu • Raja Shehadeh • Saba Ismail • Scilla Elworthy • Sue Williams • Terri-Ann P. Gilbert-Roberts • Thevuni Kotigala • Victor Ochen
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making mirrors: writing/righting by and for refugees ed. by Jehan Bseiso and Becky Thompson Interlink 2019 PB 220 x 150 mm 256 pp 978 1 62371 978 4 £15.99 FORTHCOMING SUMMER 2019 Making Mirrors is a poetry anthology that illuminates exile and displacement. The project began on two continents, envisioned by Palestinian poet and aid worker, Jehan Bseiso, and Becky Thompson, a US-based poet changed by months of greeting refugees after their perilous journey across the Aegean Sea. This anthology uses mirrors to reflect imagistic connections that allow us to see ourselves in each other, those on rafts and those standing on the shore, those waiting/writing in detention and those writing from places of relative safety, those who lift their children to the sky and those whose bodies are at the bottom of the sea. Making Mirrors offers a poetics of belonging—to the earth, family, and memories packed into backpacks. The poems go beyond refugee/citizen binaries and illuminate exile as a forced/creative space. As the refugee crisis fades from the front page of newspapers, this collection is a plea against historical amnesia and inertia; the poems are an antidote that reaches beyond despair to renewed action. Jehan Bseiso is a Palestinian poet and researcher who has been working with Doctors without Borders since 2008. Her coauthored book I Remember My Name (2016) was winner of the Palestine Book Awards. Becky Thompson, PhD, is a poet, human rights activist, yogi, and professor. She is the author of several books, most recently Teaching with Tenderness. Since 2015, she has been traveling to Greece, meeting rafts, documenting human rights violations, and teaching poetry workshops. Contributors include: Abbas Sheikhi • Abu Bakr Khaal • Adele Ne Jame • Ahmad Almallah • Ahmed • Qaisania • Angela Farmer • Baha’ Budair • Becky Thompson • Bronwen Griffiths • Eman Abedelhadi • Fadwa Soleiman • Fady Joudah • Fatima Al Hassan • Fouad Mohammed Fouad • Gbenga Adesina • Golan Haji • Hajer Almosleh • Hayan Charara • Ibtisam Barakat • Jehan Bseiso • Jose A. Alcantara • Lena Khalaf Tuffaha • Lisa Suhair Majaj • Marilyn Hacker • Marisa Frasca • Merna Ann Hecht • Mohsen Emadi • Mootacem Bellah Mhiri • Naomi Shihab Nye • Nathalie Handal • Nawwar Kamal Al Hassani • Nisreen Aj • Nora Barghati • Omar Mousa Alsayyed • Rewa Zeinati • Ruth Awad • Saad Abdullah • Sanaa Shuaybe • Sara Abou Rashed • Sara Saleh • Sharif S. Elmusa • Sholeh Wolpé • Zeina Azzam • Zeina Hashem Beck • Zoe Holman
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bush and cheney: how they ruined america and the world by David Ray Griffin Interlink 2019 PB 228 x 158 mm 400 pp 978 1 56656 061 0 FORTHCOMING SUMMER 2019 £15.99 Was America’s response to the 9/11 attacks at the root of today’s instability and terror? The events of September 11, 2001, set off a chain of global crises and civil perils that have normalised a climate of fear and conflict. Starting with assaults on the US Constitution, Griffin reviews various ways in which the world has been made worse over the past fifteen years by the Bush-Cheney reaction to the attacks and by power plays for global influence enabled by 9/11. These include the disastrous effects of regime-change operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya; the war on terror, the rise of ISIS, the Syrian conflict and European refugee crisis; the explosion of Islamophobia and the American acceptance of extrajudicial murder-by-drone; and the growing existential threats of ecological and nuclear holocaust. Looking back, it is clear that the story of 9/11 has been used to legitimise and manufacture support for disastrous policies. In Bush and Cheney, Griffin analyses what Noam Chomsky, Paul Craig Roberts, and many others across the political spectrum consider the most serious threat today – the threat to global survival. He argues that ripple effects of 9/11 have become so destructive and dangerous that the press, policy elites, and citizens should finally confront what we have allowed to happen. A national reckoning has become essential, in the words of William Rivers Pitt, to stop ‘the dominoes of September’ from continuing to fall. David Ray Griffin is emeritus professor of philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University. In his writing career, he has dealt with philosophical, religious and scientific issues on which he considers the dominant position both unhelpful and false. In this devastating critique of the enduring harm done by the Bush/Cheney presidency, Griffin provocatively links an informed account of American foreign policy failures to a definitive critique of the official version of the 9/11 attacks. All who regard themselves as responsible citizens should expose themselves to Griffin’s arguments set forth so lucidly, persuasively, and imaginatively in this indispensable book Richard Falk, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Princeton University
the mysterious collapse of world trade center 7 by David Ray Griffin
9/11 unmasked: an international review panel investigation
Interlink 2009
by David Ray Griffin and Elizabeth Woodworth
PB 229 x 152 mm 288 pp
Interlink 2018
978 1 84437 083 2 £12.99
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the journey: memoirs of an egyptian woman student in america by Radwa Ashour, trans. by Michelle Hartman
chomsky and dershowitz: on endless war and the end of civil liberties by Howard Friel
Interlink 2018
Interlink 2013
PB 229 x 152 mm 224 pp b&w photographs
PB 229 x 152 mm 376 pp
978 1 62371 997 5 £15.99
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Never neutral, and deeply engaged in politics, literature and people’s struggles, a young Radwa Ashour charts her years as a student in 1970s America, where she would become the first PhD graduate from the newly founded W. E. B. Du Bois department of Afro-American Studies and the English Department of the University of Massachusetts. A writer, critic and activist, her memoir reflects not only on her own journey and struggles but those of the people she met and engaged with in the US, especially African-Americans. Anti-colonial movements, a commitment to liberation, and the linking of scholarship and work on the ground are all alive and real in this writing. First published in Arabic over 30 years ago, the text is still vibrant and relevant today. Just emerging from the devastation of the Six Day War in 1967, Ashour discusses the pain of the ‘sixties generation’ in the Arab world and intermeshes the pressing questions and issues of the time within a quotidian story, as well as the life of an Egyptian woman within a deeply divided US society at war both with itself and abroad.
capitalism hits the fan by Richard D. Wolff Interlink 2013 PB 229 x 152 mm 262 pp 978 1 56656 936 1 £12.99 This book is required reading for anyone concerned about a fundamental transformation of the ailing capitalist economy Cornel West Richard Wolff’s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for a much more authentic democracy... A very valuable contribution in troubled times Noam Chomsky
978 1 56656 974 3 £13.99 Through the lens of a careful assessment of the political views of MIT’s Noam Chomsky and Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz, author Howard Friel chronicles an American intellectual history from the Vietnam War to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Major findings reveal the consistency of Chomsky’s principled support of international law, human rights, and civil liberties, and a reversal by Dershowitz from support in the 1960s to opposition to those legal standards today. Friel argues that a Chomskyan adherence by the US to international law and human rights would reduce the threat of terrorism and preserve civil liberties, that the Dershowitz-backed war on terrorism increases the threat of terrorism and undermines civil liberties, and that the incremental but steady transition toward a preventive state threatens the permanent suspension of civil liberties in the US.
if venice dies by Salvatore Settis Pallas Athene 2018 PB 203 x 132 mm 182 pp 978 1 84368 154 0 £12.99 What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by the renowned art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about the Pearl of the Adriatic and cultural patrimony at large. Venetians are increasingly abandoning their hometown – there is now only one resident for every 140 visitors – and Venice’s fragile fate has become emblematic of the future of historic cities everywhere, capitulating to tourists and those who profit from them. In If Venice Dies, a fiery blend of history and cultural analysis, Settis warns that Western civilisation’s prime achievements face impending ruin from mass tourism and cultural homogenisation. This is a passionate plea to secure Venice’s future, written with authority, wideranging erudition, and élan.
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man enough? donald trump, hillary clinton, and the politics of presidential masculinity by Jackson Katz Interlink 2016 PB 229 x 153 mm 336 pp 978 1 56656 083 2 £15.99 Trump’s appeal is rooted in right-wing populism and know-nothing racism, but also on his performance of a kind of can-do white masculinity that had been in decline in recent decades. Like Ronald Reagan, Trump understood implicitly that the desire for a strong, virile man in the White House runs deep in the American DNA. His supporters confirmed this every time they opened their mouths: He tells it like it is. He’s his own man. He’s not politically correct. He’s got balls. In other words, it’s time to return a ‘real man’ to the White House. In Man Enough?, Jackson Katz puts forth the original and highly provocative thesis that in recent decades, presidential campaigns have become the centre stage of an ongoing national debate about manhood, a kind of quadrennial referendum on what type of man – or one day, woman – embodies not only the US’s ideological beliefs, but also its very identity as a nation.
democratizing america by Dimitra Doukas foreword by William G. Shannon afterword by Ralph Nader Interlink 2017 PB 229 x 153 mm 208 pp 978 1 56656 009 2 £16.99
Already past its manufacturing heyday, Winsted, Connecticut, the Naders’ hometown, was wrecked by the devastating 1955 flood. For Shaf Nader, Ralph’s elder brother, the way to rebuild was by democratizing knowledge. A community college, he envisioned, would turn the old town into a regional hub of learning and creative citizenship. Impossible, people said, Winsted was too small, too gritty, too depressed. Turning those attitudes around took genius, persistence, and an uncommon gift of persuasion.
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voice male: the untold story of the pro-feminist men’s movement, 2nd edn ed. by Rob A. Okun foreword by Michael S. Kimmel new edn Interlink 2018 PB 229 x 152 mm 464 pp 978 1 56656 002 3 £19.99 At a time when sexism and misogyny are touted at the White House – and many white males feel emboldened to subjugate women – Voice Male is a critical guide for anyone concerned about gender justice. From stories about boys becoming men to others about challenging domestic and sexual violence, the book is a rich, wide-ranging collection featuring more than 100 essays by leading experts, as well as moving first-person accounts that illustrate how men are creating healthier lives and learning from women’s lived experience.
american veterans on war: personal stories from wwii to afghanistan by Elise Forbes Tripp Interlink 2013 PB 229 x 152 mm 460 pp b&w photography 978 1 56656 867 8 £14.99 Veterans tell wrenching stories of coping with hostile forces without uniforms, of not knowing who is friend or foe, and of the lasting traces of combat once they’ve returned home
the war on truth: 9/11, disinformation, and the anatomy of terrorism by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Interlink 2005 PB 228 x 153 mm 384 pp 978 1 84437 059 7 £12.99 Nafeez Ahmed provides the most comprehensive and controversial critique of the US government’s official version of what happened on 9/11.
TRAVELLER’S HISTORY GUIDES This series is designed for travellers interested in the histories of the places they visit. A gazetteer cross-referenced to the main text pinpoints the historical importance of sights and towns. Illustrated with maps and drawings, this literate and lively series makes ideal before-you-go reading, and is just as handy tucked into a backpack.
a traveller’s history of new zealand and the south pacific islands, updated 3rd edn by John H. Chambers new edn Interlink 2018 PB 203 x 127 mm 416 pp 978 1 56656 042 9 £10.99 This book gives the curious tourist not only a modern-day portrait of New Zealand and the far-flung islands, their political systems and their economic diversity, but also looks at the early settling of this massive area, which covers about a fifth of the surface of the earth. The peopling of the South Pacific Islands and New Zealand is one of the world’s great sagas. The book allows readers to make sense of what they see in a way that no other guidebook can.
a traveller’s history of japan, updated 4th edition by Richard Tames new edn Interlink 2019 PB 203 x 127 mm 292 pp 978 1 56656 042 9 £10.99 This guide not only outlines the nation’s history but also gives an invaluable introduction to its language, literature and arts, from kabuki to karaoke. It explains how a country embedded in the traditions of Shinto, shoguns and samurai has achieved stupendous economic growth and dominance in the modern world.
a traveller’s history of croatia by Benjamin Curtis
traveller’s history of australia, 4th edn
new edn Interlink 2013
by John H. Chambers
978 1 56656 808 1
new edn Interlink 2017
£10.99
PB 203 x 127 mm 400 pp 978 1 56656 424 3 £10.99 This book outlines the history of this great southern democracy from the arrival of the earliest Aboriginals to the present. The dynamic story of Australia in the twentieth century is examined, as is its role in two world wars, the post-war discoveries of huge mineral deposits, its courting of Asia in recent decades, the return of vast areas of land to the Aborigines, and its confident cultural vibrancy in wine, food, film and art.
a traveller’s history of portugal by Ian Robertson Interlink 2002 PB 197 x 127 mm 352 pp 978 1 56656 440 3 £10.99 A definitive concise history of Portugal, from its earliest beginnings right up to the politics and life of the present day.
PB 197 x 127 mm 274 pp
A Traveller’s History of Croatia offers tourists and travellers an inside look at the complex roots of Croatian history and the many influences they will see on its towns, ports and islands. The country has long been a melting-pot of Mediterranean, Central European and Italian cultures.
a traveller’s history of france by Robert Cole new edn Interlink 2005 PB 197 x 127 mm 272 pp 978 1 56656 606 3 £10.99
Millions of travellers visit France each year. The glories of the French countryside, the essential harmony of French architecture, the wealth of historical relics, the myriad of cultural opportunities – all make the country a perennial and irresistible attraction. A Traveller’s History of France takes the reader from the first conquests of ancient Gaul through the Renaissance, the turmoil and triumph of the French Revolution, and on through the 20th century all the way to the present.
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a traveller’s history of athens
a traveller’s history of england
by Richard Stoneman
by Christopher Daniell
new edn Interlink 2004
Interlink 2005
PB 197 x 127 mm 304 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 320 pp
978 1 56656 533 2 £10.99
978 1 90521 431 0 £10.99
a traveller’s history of bath
a traveller’s history of germany
by Richard Tames
by Robert Cole
Interlink 2009
new edn Interlink 2014
PB 197 x 127 mm 384 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 338 pp
978 1 90521 465 5 £10.99
978 1 56656 532 5 £10.99
a traveller’s history of canada
a traveller’s history of greece
by Robert Bothwell
by T. Boatswain & C. Nicolson
new edn Interlink 2010
Interlink 2001
PB 197 x 127 mm 220 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 352 pp
978 1 56656 386 4 £10.99
978 1 90521 433 4 £10.99
a traveller’s history of the caribbean
a traveller’s history of india
by James Ferguson
by SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda
Interlink 2008
new edn Interlink 2012
PB 197 x 127 mm 372 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 288 pp
978 1 56656 690 2 £10.99
978 1 56656 445 8 £10.99
a traveller’s history of cyprus
a traveller’s history of ireland
by Timothy Boatswain
by Peter Neville
Interlink 2005
Interlink 2009
PB 197 x 127 mm 304 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 288 pp
978 1 56656 605 6 £10.99
978 1 90521 469 3 £10.99
a traveller’s history of egypt
a traveller’s history of italy
by Harry Adès
by Valerio Lintner
Interlink 2006
Interlink 2008
PB 197 x 127 mm 352 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 304 pp
978 1 90521 401 3 £10.99
978 1 90521 455 6 £10.99
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a traveller’s history of london
a traveller’s history of scotland
by Richard Tames
by Andrew Fisher
Interlink 2007
Interlink 2009
PB 197 x 127 mm 320 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 256 pp
978 1 56656 484 7 £10.99
978 1 90521 468 6 £10.99
a traveller’s history of mexico
a traveller’s history of south africa
by Kenneth Pearce
by David Mason
Interlink 2003
Interlink 2003
PB 197 x 127 mm 272 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 272 pp
978 1 56656 523 3 £10.99
978 1 56656 505 9 £10.99
a traveller’s history of oxford
a traveller’s history of spain
by Richard Tames
by Juan Lalaguna
new edn Interlink 2006
new edn Interlink 2001
PB 197 x 127 mm 256 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 304 pp
978 1 56656 467 0 £10.99
978 1 56656 406 9 £10.99
a traveller’s history of paris
a traveller’s history of turkey
by Robert Cole
by Richard Stoneman
new edn Interlink 2008
Interlink 2009
PB 197 x 127 mm 312 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 252 pp
978 1 56656 485 4 £10.99
978 1 90521 466 2 £10.99
a traveller’s history of poland
a traveller’s history of the usa
by John Radzilowski
by Daniel J. McInerney
new edn Interlink 2013
new edn Interlink 2010
PB 197 x 127 mm 320 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 468 pp
978 1 90521 402 0 £10.99
978 1 56656 283 6 £10.99
a traveller’s history of russia
a traveller’s history of venice
by Peter Neville
by Peter Mentzel
Interlink 2013
new edn Interlink 2005
PB 197 x 127 mm 336 pp
PB 197 x 127 mm 250 pp
978 1 56656 645 2 £10.99
978 1 56656 611 7 £10.99
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TRAVELLERS’ WILDLIFE GUIDES The Travellers’ Wildlife Guides are splendid overviews. Each book is sturdily bound in flexible boards and illustrated in full colour. Comprehensive introductions to the ecology and wildlife of the region are followed by an extensive animal and plant species identification.
alaska
florida
by Dennis Paulson and Les Beletsky
by Fiona Sunquist, Mel Sunquist and Les Beletsky
Interlink 2006 PB 216 x 140 mm 456 pp 978 1 56656 652 0 £19.99
australia: the east by Les Beletsky Interlink 2006 PB 216 x 140 mm 520 pp 978 1 90521 421 1 £19.99
Interlink 2007 PB 216 x 140 mm 524 pp 978 1 90521 456 3 £19.99
hawaii by Les Beletsky Interlink 2005 PB 216 x 140 mm 520 pp 978 1 90521 419 8 £19.99
belize and northern guatemala
peru
by Les Beletsky
by David L. Pearson and Les Beletsky
new edn Interlink 2013
new edn Interlink 2013
PB 216 x 140 mm 520 pp
PB 216 x 140 mm 520 pp
978 1 56656 568 4 £19.99
978 1 56656 545 5 £19.99
brazil
southern africa
by David L. Pearson and Les Beletsky
by B. Branch, C. Stuart, T. Stuart and W. Tarboton
Interlink 2013 PB 197 x 127 mm 336 pp 978 1 56656 593 6 £19.99
costa rica by Les Beletsky new edn Interlink 2013 PB 216 x 140 mm 440 pp 978 1 56656 617 9 £19.99
ecuador and the galapagos islands
new edn Interlink 2013 PB 216 x 140 mm 520 pp 978 1 56656 639 1 £19.99
southern mexico by Les Beletsky Interlink 2006 PB 216 x 140 mm 520 pp 978 1 90521 428 0 £19.99
thailand
by David L. Pearson and Les Beletsky
by David L. Pearson and Les Beletsky
new edn Interlink 2013
Interlink 2008
PB 216 x 140 mm 440 pp
PB 216 x 140 mm 470 pp
978 1 56656 530 1 £19.99
978 1 56656 694 0 £19.99
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mcgilchrist’s greek islands- boxed set of 20 volumes by Nigel McGilchrist Genius Loci 2009 177 x303 x 121 mm 978 1 90785 920 5 £150 These books about the fascinatingly diverse world of the Aegean Islands are written with a rare combination of scholarship and passion. They are the fruit of three decades of occasional exploration followed by seven years of dedicated study of the islands. And they document, in a detail not attempted before, the wide range of art, architecture, archaeology, history, natural phenomena, fauna and flora of this island world. At over 3,400 pages they carry more than twice the amount of information that is available from any other source. That space also gives them the possibility to cover a wide variety of subjects, and to look at those topics with unhurried precision. The exquisite wall paintings of Bronze Age Santorini; the mountain flowers of Samos; the secret rites of the sanctuary of Samothrace; the sponge divers of Symi; the earliest beginnings of European sculpture in the delicate Cycladic figurines; the fantasy architecture of the 1920s & 30s on Rhodes and Leros... whatever the subject, they not only describe but explain the evolution and story behind what the visitor sees and wants to know. They are the ultimate resource for the interested and curious traveller. We hope that they belong to a new generation of guides which appeal to the thoughtful visitor – to those who are not seeking the shallow, fractured, sound-bite information of the busy picture guides, but who want to penetrate to the heart and spirit and hidden joy of the places they visit. For lovers of the Aegean, it is as close to being the definitive guidebook to the region as you are ever going to get Daily Telegraph Delightful, well-observed, literary accompaniments to the Greek islands, by a British scholar The Economist, Books of the Year Anyone who likes to explore the environment, history, and culture of the planet will instantly recognise the value of these books... [the] passion is endearing, and the accessible style in which the series is written makes them addictive Mark Merrony, in Minerva Nigel McGilchrist is an art historian who has lived, worked and taught in the Mediterranean area for over thirty years. He began learning ancient Greek at school at the age of eleven, and was a scholar both at Winchester College and at Merton College, Oxford. After graduating with a First from Oxford in 1978 he travelled in the Near East, and then settled in Italy where he taught at the University of Rome, worked for the Ministero dei Beni Culturali (the Italian Ministry of Arts) in the field of conservation of wall-paintings, and established the Anglo-Italian Institute in Rome to introduce British university students to the art and history of the city of Rome.
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MCGILCHRIST’S GREEK ISLANDS Each title is also available for individual purchase for £9.99. Books are 169 x 112 mm.
samos 216 pp
978 1 90785 902 1
rhodes 344 pp
978 1 90785 905 2
santorini
kos
978 1 90785 900 7
978 1 90785 901 4
mykonos & delos
paros
128 pp
128 pp
978 1 90785 903 8
the argo-saronic islands 192 pp
166 pp
96 pp
978 1 90785 904 5
kythera 112 pp
978 1 90785 909 0
978 1 90785 906 9
euboea
the sporades
thasos
978 1 90785 915 1
978 1 90785 907 6
978 1 90785 916 8
lemnos
lesbos
chios
978 1 90785 917 5
978 1 90785 910 6
978 1 90785 918 2
northern dodecanese
southern dodecanese
naxos
978 1 90785 911 3
978 1 90785 919 9
northern cyclades
western cyclades
southern cyclades
978 90785 912 0
978 1 90785 913 7
978 1 90785 914 4
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112 pp
184 pp
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978 1 90785 908 3
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rhodes with symi and chalki by Nigel McGilchrist Genius Loci 2017 PB 170 x 122 mm 352 pp 32 colour photographs, 9 maps and plans 978 1 90785 923 6 £12 Cosmopolitan, spacious, immensely varied, blessed with a fullness of vegetation and an unforgettable radiance of light, the island of Rhodes has always been a proudly self-sufficient world of its own. The Hospitaller Knights of St John arrived in Rhodes at the beginning of the 14th century and fortified the island as a chivalric kingdom in the sea. Of all the cities in Greece, Rhodes is the only one that comes close to Athens in the density and richness of its monuments and in the sheer variety to be seen – Hellenistic, Mediaeval, Ottoman, Traditional, Italian Colonial – it substantially outshines the capital. Ancient Kameiros is one of the most untouched ancient archaeological sites in the Islands and few sanctuaries in all of Greece have a more improbable or panoramic site than that of Zeus Atabyros on the summit of the island’s highest peak. Three of the most complete painted Byzantine interiors in the Aegean are to be seen at Lindos, Asklepieio and Tharri and there are many smaller churches that should not be missed. The island is home to many unusual trees, flowers, reptiles, birds and butterflies. In the 18th and 19th centuries Symi prospered remarkably from sponge fishing and boat building and its town became one of the most beautiful ports in the Aegean. Today the island lives by tourism and day-trips from Rhodes can seem to engulf the town. In addition to exploration of the town, a visit might ideally also include the discovery of the mountainous interior of the island and a journey by boat around its deeply indented coast. Chalki today is a peaceful retreat, offering uncrowded beaches, scenic walks, a dramatic landscape inland and an attractive seascape all around formed by its outlying islands.
ARCHAEOLOGY
the shaft tombs of wadi bairiya, vol 1 by Piers Litherland Genius Loci 2018 HB 303 x 215 mm 432 pp over 400 colour photographs and diagrams 978 0 993097 317 0 £10.99 Shaft Tombs which had only been noted in two brief paragraphs by Howard Carter in 1917 have now been revealed to be burial places f hitherto unrecognised members of the family of Amenhotep III. These architecturally unique shaft tombs had been repeatedly robbed but still contained the shattered remains of the largest collections of canopic jars ever found in Egypt. These and other surviving contents of the tomb seem to have been deliberately destroyed in phaoronic times in an attempt – sucessful until recently – to remove the names of the dead from history. The tombs were used over several generations and included the burials of the King’s Great Wife, son, daughter, another of his wives and at least a dozen women bearing the title ‘Ornament of the King’. Although now the site of the burials appear remote, it was the site of a major crossroads during the XVIIIth dynasty – traces of plant life within the tombs point to a more fertile climate when they were creted. The most pressing question the tombs raise is why and when these burials were destroyed, and why the names of several of the family of Amenhotep III and a group of court women should have been subjected to delibreate, systematic and official destruction.
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the western wadis of the theban necropolis by Piers Litherland Genius Loci 2014 HB 300 x 208 mm 432 pp over 400 colour photographs and diagrams 978 0 99309 730 0 £30 The wadis which lie to the west of the main Theban mountain were last officially explored by Howard Carter in 1916 and 1917. He suggested in a subsequent article that these wadis might contain the burial ground of the XVIIIth dynasty royal family members whose burials were then missing. The granting of the concession to excavate the Valley of the Kings to the Earl of Carnarvon, and the subsequent discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, meant that Carter never returned to the Western Wadis to test his theory. The burials of many members of the XVIIIth dynasty royal family remain missing to this day. Since Carter’s exploration of this area the evidence in these wadis has been examined by many people, both officially and unofficially, but this report represents the results of the first Ministry of Antiquities-approved attempt to re-address Howard Carter’s hypothesis.
kythera: excavations and studies by J. N. Coldstream, G. L. Huxley Genius Loci 2017 HB 277 x 208 mm 458 pp 978 1 90785 922 9 £35 Nicolas Coldstream and George Huxley began excavations on the Greek island of Kythera in 1963. Their mission was to find out if the Minoans of ancient Crete had established a maritime empire, as Herodotus, Aristotle and other classical authors claimed. Digging in the fertile valley of Paleopoli, they were quickly successful, finding plentiful evidence of homes, agriculture, trade, shipping, cults and burials. Over the next nine years they made further visits to the island, studying the rich archaeological finds and writing up the results in this remarkable book, which includes articles commissioned from leading scholars on Kythera’s history, geology and topography. Kythera Excavations and Studies was originally published by Faber & Faber in 1972. That edition has long been out of print and is now a scarce collector’s item. The reprint of this defiinitive work coincides with the opening of the restored Archaeological Museum in Kythera and makes a lost classic available for a new generation of readers.
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half an hour from paris
parisians’ paris by Bill Gillham
by Annabel Simms
new edn Pallas Athene 2013
Pallas Athene 2018 PB 196 x 115 mm 96 pp 26 colour and 44 b&w illustrations, and maps 978 1 84368 144 1 £12.99
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Following the format of the small classic An Hour from Paris, and written with the same delight in the little-known treasures of the Ile de France, comes Annabel Simm’s latest guidebook, Half an Hour from Paris. Simms presents ten new destinations easy to reach from central Paris, each with a carefully planned walk, ample meanderings through the cultural, historical and social milieu, comprehensive practical information and clear, detailed maps. Annabel Simms was born in England, and now lives and works in Paris.
an hour from paris, enlarged and revised 3rd edn by Annabel Simms Pallas Athene 2019 PB 196 x 115 mm 272 pp with comprehensive practical information, indexes, glossaries, 30 detailed maps, and over 60 photographs 978 1 84368 131 1 £14.99 A small classic: written with passion, perfectionism and amusement, a guide that will make you see a Paris – and a France – you would never have suspected. Each walk is illustrated by a clear, detailed map, and each destination supplemented by comprehensive practical information. Now fully updated and enlarged with extra walks. Simms devotes her itineraries to finding less obvious chateaux, river ports, towns that inspired the likes of Victor Hugo and Erik Satie and, above all, a glimpse of what Proust called a temps perdu. A kind of Ile de France Profonde. Its strength is that it focusses on relatively unknown places that you can reach by a local train ride. I suspect that they are equally unknown to many Parisians The Independent
PB 116 x 197 mm 235 pp 978 1 87342 994 5 £12.99 In the spirit of An Hour From Paris, here is a guide that will help you experience Paris like a Parisian. Bill Gillham, author, academic and teacher, has been visiting Paris for decades. For him, the pleasure is not in revisiting the tourist sights; but to immerse himself in a particular quartier, discovering its little shops and bistrots, markets, parks and local entertainments, all the little quirks and particularities of its day-to-day life. In this guide, he takes you to seventeen of his favourite areas of Paris and shows you the real city. Neglected or completely ignored by ordinary guidebooks, these quartiers all have a purely individual, Parisian character, and as well as being fascinating destinations in themselves, they make superb bases for traditional sightseeing – in particular an ideal way of seeing Paris with children. All the information about where to stay, where to shop and eat, museums, parks, playgrounds, what not to miss and what to avoid is given in a prose that easily conveys all the enjoyment of discovery.
the nature of france: brittany by Dennis and Ann Furnell Pallas Athene 2003 171 x 11 mm 224 full-colour pages Sewn paperback with heavyduty cover 978 1 87342 989 1 £12.99 A general introduction to the ecology, natural history and human history of each department is followed by detailed introductions to the major sites, and all there is to see. Highlights include the incredible cliffs at Cap Fréhel; the nature reserve at Les Sept Iles; Le Parc Naturel Régionale d’Armorique, a paradise for wildlife with country lanes, forests, deep wooded valleys and wild heaths; and Cancale, renowned for its seafood, especially the oysters. Anyone interested in the beauty of nature, from scientists to ramblers, will be fired by the Furnells’ enthusiasm and knowledge.
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a traveller’s guide to d-day and the battle for normandy
america and ww1: a traveler’s guide
by Carl Shillto and Mike Tolhurst
Interlink 2015
by Mark D. Van Ells
Interlink 2013
PB 127 x 228 mm 432 pp b&w photos, maps
PB 133 x 203 mm 192 pp b&w photos, maps
978 1 56656 975 0 £14.99
978 1 56656 555 4 £12.99 This book covers the period from June to August 1944 when the Allies stormed ashore, fought their way through the bocage country of Normandy and eventually broke out through the Avranches gap. This comprehensive guide includes all major battles, battlefields and memorials, with detailed maps and then-and-now photographs, as well as practical details to help you on your visit to these historic places.
world heritage sites of great britain & ireland by Victoria Huxley Interlink 2009 PB 248 x127 mm 272 pp
978 1 56656 769 5 £12.99 There are 27 World Heritage Sites designated by UNESCO in Great Britain and Ireland and this authoritative guidebook describes them and their reasons for inclusion.
dordogne by Joy Law Pallas Athene 2003 PB 205 x 150 mm 318pp fully illustrated in colour and b&w, 2 fold-out maps
America and WWI follows in the footsteps of the Doughboy – as the US soldier of the Great War was known – from the training camps to the frontlines. Tracing America’s experience from the factors that led the nation to enter the war to the 1918 armistice, this riveting narrative describes a military build-up on a scale the world had never seen, as well as the war’s major battles and campaigns. Throughout, it leads the traveller to the memorials erected in the Doughboys’ wake, as well as to the many places that remain unmarked and uncommemorated. Complete with photographs and the voices of doughboys, America and WWI is indispensible for those exploring this vital but neglected chapter in American and European history.
walking in italy by Gillian and John Souter new edn Interlink 2007 PB 216 x 140 mm 288 pp 978 1 90521 452 5 £12.99 This book offers walking tours in Rome, Florence and Venice, suggests routes around such gems as Sienna and Perugia, and leads you into Italy’s most stunning landscapes. A lucid and lively text is accompanied by beautiful photographs and hand-drawn maps.
poland
ed. by Sebastian Wormell, ed. Interlink 2007
978 1 87342 928 0
PB 205 x 150 mm 691 pp fully illustrated in colour and b&w, 2 fold-out maps
£14.95
978 1 87342 922 8
A wonderful companion to the landscapes and histories of the Dordogne, with considerable learning lightly worn.
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£19.99 The most comprehensive guide to the immense pleasures of Poland
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kilimanjaro, 3rd edn
a272: an ode to a road – 4th edn
by Michel Moushabeck and Hiltrud Schulz
by Pieter and Rita Boogaart
new edn Interlink 2013
new edn Pallas Athene 2013
203 x 203 mm 160 pp
PB 250 x 210 mm 272 pp over 350 colour illustrations
HB 978 1 56656 781 7 £19.99 PB 978 1 56656 753 4 £14.99 This book captures the essence of this majestic mountain with over 200 full-colour photographs and a narrative that ties together personal observations with the mountain’s history, its people and its ecology. Michael Moushabeck and Hiltrud Schulz... will inspire you to start packing your gear to set off for East Africa, a place they bring to life through vivid descriptions of the land and people and dozens of dramatic photographs Larry Habegger, Travellers’ Tales
incredible ascents to everest by Sumati Nagrath forewood by Tom Whittaker
978 1 84368 095 6 £19.99 Three continuous texts wind their way through the book, simultaneously exploring the A272 itself and the countryside it passes through; extra commentary is provided in yet another level of text. Hundreds of colour photographs complete this homage to the ‘epitome of England’. One of the most original, crazy, informative and enjoyable books to appear for a long time: this guide is utterly appealing Sarah Anderson, Travel Bookshop Astonishing Jeremy Paxman, Newsnight Delightful Woman’s Hour The most eccentric and fascinating guidebook we have ever seen John Sandoe Bookshop Road all about it! The Sun
HB 280 x 230 mm 224 pp
m25: travelling clockwise
978 1 56656 941 5 £19.99
Pallas Athene 2004
Interlink 2013
Soaring in height to 29,029 feet (8,848 metres) above sea level, Mount Everest is a geographical giant. Ever since it was established that the mountain is indeed the tallest in the world, humans have tried to tame it. The terrain is treacherous, the weather unpredictable, the atmospheric conditions extreme; danger of injury, illness, delirium and death is ever-present. Despite this, over the last 90 years, hundreds of men and women have attempted this perilous journey to the peak, and many have lived not only to tell the tale, but to bask in the warm glory this achievement naturally brings with it. But it is more than a quest for fame that drives ordinary people to undertake this most extraordinary challenge of all. Each of the climbers included in this book overcame extraordinary odds to reach the top of the world’s tallest mountain. In the process not only did they create history, they also shattered stereotypes to redefine the limits of possibility.
by Roy Phippen PB 150 x 114 mm 256 pp with colour illustrations throughout: aerial photographs, newspaper clippings, engravings, drawings and panoramas 978 1 87342 990 7 £12.99 In the footsteps of the phenomenally successful A272: an Ode to a Road comes the definitive and quirky guide to everyone’s favourite motorway. History, landscape, construction, follies and eccentrics crowd the page of this book, fully illustrated with pictures of the beautiful and the unexpected. This full-colour book, illustrated with stunning aerial photographs, newspaper clippings, engravings from a more elegant age, drawings and panoramas of some of Britain’s loveliest landscape and most surprising nooks and corners, will keep commuters, novices, families and pleasure-seeking tourists happy in any jam.
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venice for pleasure by J. G. Links introduced by Jan Morris Pallas Athene 9th edition revised 2019 187 x 127 mm 280 pp 120 full-colour illustrations, 5 maps PB 978 1 84368 134 2
£16.99
HB 978 1 84368 135 9 £22.99 OVER 150,000 COPIES SOLD None of Venice’s innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima’s character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate... Over the years thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding approach to the city – ‘Generally the first thing to do in Venice is to sit down and have some coffee’: but by the time they get to the end of it, all the same, they will have learnt virtually everything that an educated stranger needs to know about the place, its art and its history, besides being subtly entertained throughout. This magic book ... not only the best guide-book to that city ever written, but the best guide-book to any city ever written Bernard Levin in The Times An absolute must for anyone going to Venice Evening Standard One of the most delightful and original guides ever written about the city – any city, for that matter Jan Morris My all-time favourite guidebook James Daunt of Daunt’s Travel Books
andalucía, 5th edn
brussels for pleasure
by Michael Jacobs
by Derek Blyth
PB 205 x 150 mm 464 pp 30 colour plates, 157 illustrations, diagrams and maps, complete lists of Andalucían museums and tapas
PB 187 x 127 mm 432 pp 16 pp colour plates, 85 b&w illustrations, maps, practical details and reviews
Pallas Athene 2013 978 1 84368 091 8 £17.99 The great Hispanist Michael Jacobs looks with fresh eyes at all the traditional delights of Andalucía while doing full justice to the region’s lesserknown aspects. He examines the underrated local cuisine, the extraordinary natural scenery, the composers and writers who created the romantic myths of the nineteenth century, the strange legacy of Lorca and the Spanish Civil War. Andalucía’s Moorish remains, its outstanding prehistoric and classical heritage and its exuberant Renaissance and Baroque monuments make it one of the richest regions of Europe. Nearly a hundred Andalucían villages and towns are described, some of which are as lovely and as haunting as anywhere in the world.
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Pallas Athene 2003 978 1 87342 914 3 £14.99 For all its pivotal importance historically, politically and gastronomically, Brussels remains one of the least known cities in Europe. Derek Blyth’s book takes the visitor to the secret, surprising places of Brussels as well as to the grandiose monuments and museums. Thirteen amply illustrated walks explore the centre of Brussels. Further pleasures described include the forests and villages on the outskirts of Brussels; Waterloo; the matchless art nouveau architecture; the superb cemeteries; and surrealist art in the métro. The best of all cultural travel guides The Times
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andaluz: a food journey through southern spain by Fiona Dunlop Interlink 2019 HB 248 x 190mm 304 pp Over 300 full-colour photographs 978 1 62371 999 9 £24.99
FORTHCOMING 2019
Fiona Dunlop does it again Yotam Ottolenghi Andaluz is a cookbook that bridges past and present in southern Spain. For nearly eight centuries, Moorish rule in Andalucía brought about a cultural revolution, resulting in architectural splendours such as the Alhambra as well as a rich culinary history. Andaluz is a quest to illustrate the legacy of the Arabs and Berbers in contemporary kitchens through recipes from 21 cooks and chefs. Couscous, rice, aubergine, oranges, figs, apricots, marzipan, and a wealth of spices are just a few ingredients inherited from this key period – along with meticulous agricultural techniques. By digging deep into traditional dishes, scouring markets, and learning from home cooks, local tavern owners, and Michelin-starred restaurant chefs, Fiona Dunlop offers a vivid gastronomic window on this region. Entries from her travel diary, photos of daily life, profiles of chefs and over 100 sumptuous recipes bring the entire region alive—from Granada in the east to Córdoba at its heart and Seville in the west, from sierra to sea. With beautiful food and location photography Andaluz is bound to become the cookbook you will visit time and time again. Fiona Dunlop is a food and travel writer, blogger, and photographer. She is the author of three cookbooks – New Tapas, The North African Kitchen and Mexican Modern – as well as National Geographic’s guides to Spain and Portugal. Fiona Dunlop does it again and brings us a region’s essence. This time it’s the turn of semolina crumbs from Almería and almond sponge cake from Antequera. She sums up southern Spain – a pivotal meeting point of religions and cultures – and avoids trends and fashion. Andaluz gives the confidence to find the area’s best sun drenched dishes and cook them too Yotam Ottolenghi Dunlop (The North African Kitchen) shares the culinary culture of Andalucía – an autonomous region in the south of Spain – in this glorious, lushly photographed cookbook... Ingredients are easily accessed and instructions straightforward. Dunlop delights in this inviting Spanish cookbook Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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mouneh: preserving food for the lebanese pantry by Barbara Abdeni Massaad Interlink 2019 HB 254 x 203 mm 592 pp 978 1 56656 036 8 £39.99
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The memories connecting us to time and place are often stimulated by the tastes and smells of our childhood. Freshlybaked bread, hot from the oven, sweet homemade jam dribbling down our chins, or the burst of flavour in each dried grape – the memories which make us smile and remind us of family. Do you remember working alongside your grandmother as she lovingly preserved fresh food to store for the winter? Do you remember your grandfather patiently preparing dinner? Are you lucky enough to have written records of recipes taken from family history and years of experience? If so, count yourself among the very fortunate minority. The reality for many of the Lebanese is that we no longer enjoy such a strong connection to our culinary roots. The beauty and simplicity of home-preserved pantry items, the mouneh, have been taken for granted during our childhood. In Barbara Abdeni Massaad’s book, Mouneh: Preserving Foods for the Lebanese Pantry, we’ve been thrown a lifeline to a piece of Lebanese culture and culinary identity. So many dishes we would love to recreate for our own families become possible within these pages, thanks to the author’s diligent research, stunning photography, simply presented instructions and delightful stories. Documenting traditions, recipes, and rituals ensures their survival; it is vital work. Barbara Massaad’s beautiful new book Mouneh goes to the heart of Lebanese life. She is a writer and photographer, but above all she is a custodian of a wonderfully rich culture Alice Waters I loved Barbara Massaad’s Man’oushé [see p.82], and I feel the same about her latest book, Mouneh. In both books, she opens up the world of Lebanese gastronomy in a unique way, connecting it to Lebanese culture while providing wonderful mouth-watering recipes. I couldn’t ask for more Paula Wolfert
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soup for syria: recipes to celebrate our shared humanity by Barbara Abdeni Massad Interlink 2018 HB 270 x 210 mm 208 pp full-colour photos 978 1 56656 089 4 £24.99
NEW EDN
The world has failed Syria’s refugees, and some of the world’s wealthiest countries have turned their backs on this humanitarian disaster. Syria’s neighbours – Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq – have together absorbed more than 3.8 million refugees. The need for food relief is great and growing. Acclaimed chefs and cookbook authors the world over have come together to help to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees. Each has contributed to this beautifully illustrated book of delicious soup recipes from around the world. Profits from the sale of this cookbook will be donated to help fund food relief efforts to Syrian refugees — hundreds of thousands of dollars have already been raised. Our hope is that one day the refugees will be able to return to their country and rebuild their lives. For now, though, what we can do is listen to their pleas. Be part of this vital work of saving lives and help us deliver essential food items to the displaced refugees. Contributors include: Yotam Ottolenghi, Mark Bittman, Anthony Bourdain, Alice Waters, Paula Wolfert, Claudia Roden, Greg Malouf, Ana Sortun, Sami Tamimi, Aglaia Kremezi, Carolyn Kumpe, Wendy Rahamut, Joe Barza, Sally Butcher, Troth Wells, Garrett Melkonian, Alexis Couquelet, Fernando Gomez, Jane Hughes, Nur Ilkin, Aline Kamakian, Sheilah Kaufman, and many others.
man’oushé: inside the lebanese street corner bakery by Barbara Abdeni Massaad photography by Barbara Abdeni Massaad and Raymond Yazbeck Interlink 2015 231 x 292 mm 200 pp full-colour photography HB 978 1 56656 928 6 £23.99 PB 978 1 56656 965 1 £18.99 Man’oushé: Inside the Street Corner Lebanese Bakery is a journey to discover Lebanon’s favourite snack, inspired by a trip through the country. This typical Lebanese creation can be as simple as an on-the-go breakfast and as intricate as a family meal. With over 70 simple recipes, it offers you a way to enjoy these typical pies – traditionally baked in street-corner bakeries – in the comfort of your own home.
georgian khachapuri and filled breads by Carla Capalbo Pallas Athene 2018 Series: The Little Georgian Collection PB 145 x 115 mm 64 pp colour illustrations throughout 978 1 84368 170 0 £4.99
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Following on from the success of her large book, Tasting Georgia, award-winning food, wine and travel writer and photographer Carla Capalbo is launching a new series of pocket books on Georgian culture and cuisine. The first in the collection, Khachapuri and Filled Breads, focuses on this popular Georgian mainstay, giving the recipes for ten of the country’s most delicious regional breads. In addition to the many versions of cheese-filled khachapuri, the fully illustrated book will include breads filled with greens, meats and potatoes.
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sun bread and sticky toffee: date desserts from everywhere by Sarah al-Hamad new edn Interlink 2014 273 x 216 mm 144 pp full-colour photography HB 978 1 56656 921 7 £17.99 PB 978 1 56656 930 9 £12.99 Dates are one of the oldest cultivated foods, with over 600 varieties grown around the world today. From California’s thirst-quenching date shakes to the quintessentially British sticky toffee pudding and its luscious butterscotch sauce to wholesome date and sesame flatbreads, spicy ginger and date jam, and the creamiest honeyed date cheesecake, Sun Bread and Sticky Toffee is packed with delicious, natural and healthy recipes that demonstrate the versatility of baking with dates and date syrup. This is food for the taste buds but also for healthy living: sensual, delicious desserts, illuminating the sun-drenched tale of the date fruit, its story, past and present, and the food that continues to provide vitality and comfort to countless travelers on arduous journeys.
the lebanese kitchen: quick and healthy recipes by Monique Bassila Zaarour new edn Interlink 2013 PB 260 x 209mm 144 pp full-colour photography 978 1 56656 677 3 £12.99 This Gourmand World Cookbook award winning work draws on the author’s Lebanese heritage, her intimate knowledge of one of the world’s great cuisines, her training as a nutritionist, and her time as a mother, to present readers with a selection of delicious recipes.
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portuguese homestyle cooking revised and updated edn by Ana Patuleia Ortins new edn Interlink 2016 229 x 260 mm 288 pp full-colour photography HB 978 1 56656 013 9 £24.99 PB 978 1 56656 014 6 £17.99 NEW EDN Everyone loves Mediterranean food. But few can say what makes the soul-comforting, understated peasant food of Portugal distinct from that of its neighbours. The abundant use of legumes and leafy greens in its hearty soups and stews? The unusual combinations of meat and shellfish? The easy seafood preparations? Or, perhaps, the luscious, egg-sweet desserts, from light meringue puddings to rich, sweet breads? Peppered with a lifetime of anecdotes from a passionate cook’s growing up in a Portuguese culture, Portuguese Homestyle Cooking draws us into an immigrant kitchen where traditional culinary methods were handed down from father to daughter, shared and refined with the help of the family and friends who watched, chopped and tasted. The mouthwatering recipes in Portuguese Homestyle Cooking are of dishes prepared as they were in Portugal – but with the measurements standardised and perfected. The commonly used ingredients and methods are fully explained so that novices and experienced chefs alike can prepare these savoury dishes. Beautifully illustrated with full-colour photographs of food and landscapes, Portuguese Homestyle Cooking is as much a pleasure to read as it is to cook from. Portuguese Homestyle Cooking is a beautiful book for those interested in Portuguese gastronomy. It is not only cooking with flavor but with love Portuguese Times
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tasting georgia: a food and wine journey in the caucasus by Carla Capalbo Pallas Athene 2017 HB 247 mm x 190 mm 464 pp 70 authentic recipes; 60 restaurants and wine bars; 390 original photographs; 40 family wineries, 10 regional maps, visits to Georgia’s best chefs, cooks and markets 978 1 84368 125 0 £29.99
winner, the guild of food writers, food and travel award 2018 winner, best food book (uk) 2017, gourmand international cookbook awards Award-winning food and wine writer and photographer Carla Capalbo has travelled across Georgia collecting recipes and gathering stories from traditional food and wine producers in this stunning but little-known country, nestled between the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea. The result is a beautifully illustrated cookbook and personal travel guide. Tasting Georgia is a labour of love by a deeply engaged food writer and historian who has lived and travelled every part of the region she writes about Corby Kummer, The Atlantic: The 9 Best Tasting Georgia is a book for travellers, cooks, wine lovers and for anyone who appreciates glorious photography. It is itself a kind of supra – a feast of colour, crafted with patience and persistence, investment, love and skill Tamlyn Currin, Cookbooks of 2017, www.jancisrobinson.com
russia’s cuisine: tradition and modernity ed. by Sergey Chernov Chernov & Co. 2016 HB 323 x 245 x 47 mm 456 pp Over 200 recipes and over 1000 illustrations. Full leather binding with threecolour foil embossing, silk head and tail bands, three silk bookmarks. Protective cardboard box.
of these lands, and their current character are described, together with the products, specialities and dishes that have made each region famous. Hundreds of recipes are given, ranging from dishes familiar from any Russian childhood to rare, often unique dishes from the furthest corners of Russia. The last chapter of this edition is dedicated to New Russian cuisine and how Russian chefs search for new approaches and concepts. Their path to culinary discoveries is not only through the development of advanced technologies and the study of the latest achievements of the world’s greatest chefs, but also in great part through the comprehension of the richest culinary traditions of their multi-ethnic country.
978 5 98937 067 2 £150 This vast and beautiful book celebrates the diversity and culinary abundance of Russian cuisine. Even Russians will be surprised by the variety of regional dishes and products across their enormous country. Each chapter describes a large region and the peoples who live there. The ethnic history
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FOOD AND WINE
wine myths & reality, 2nd edn by Benjamin Lewin MW
claret and cabs: the story of cabernet sauvignon
Vendange Press 2017
by Benjamin Lewin MW
HB 204 x 229 mm 710 pp 650 illustrations, including photos, maps and charts
Vendange Press 2013
978 0 98372 926 6 £60.00 Is wine an artisanal creation or industrial product? The first edition of Wine Myths & Reality was widely praised for its innovative view of how wine is made and what distinguishes wines from different places. The world of wine is constantly changing and this second edition is expanded and completely rewritten to take account of new developments. Panoramic in its scope, magisterial in its treatment, and meticulous in its research, Wine Myths and Reality explores the world of wine extensively. From monks treading grapes in the Middle Ages to the latest research into grapevine DNA, this compelling book presents the authoritative account of how wine is really made. Practices in viticulture and vinification are explained, the tricks of the wine trade are revealed, the methods of the New and the Old Worlds are scrutinised, and their wines are evaluated. Extensively illustrated with photographs, maps and charts, the approachable and entertaining style immediately engages the reader in the wine universe. An overview of all major wine-producing countries extends from the powerful wines of the New World to the classic wines of Europe. Does terroir really matter? Is the international style taking over? Will global warming destroy the existing wine-producing regions? And extrapolating from current trends, what will wine be like in the future? The most riveting, richest wine book of the year Jancis Robinson This is a very fine wine book – one of the best I’ve read – and certainly worth a place on your bookshelf – even if you have to reinforce it to bear the extra weight! Wine Economist A distinguished scientist ... sure to conduct his research with a rigour not generally found among wine writers, to ask awkward questions, and not to be put off with the many answers that don’t satisfy his standards. Moreover, the scientist involved, Dr Benjamin Lewin, cannot be accused of ignorance about wines – he’s a Master of Wine Nicholas Faith, World of Fine Wines
HB 260 x 195 mm 518 pp with hundreds of colour illustrations and diagrams 978 0 98372 921 1 £45 Lewin values typicity in wine, so it is not an insult for me to say that Claret & Cabs is typical of his work. Extraordinarily well researched and written, the facts and insights jump off the page in a way that draws the reader deeper and deeper through all the senses that wine embodies. And I like the way that Lewin tells part of his story through the voices of the dozens of winemakers he interviewed on his fieldwork travels. As always, I appreciate that he doesn’t hesitate to take on difficult questions, weigh the evidence, and reach a bold conclusion. Claret & Cabs is a great read and I think will prove its worth down the road (‘age well’) as a reference, too. Bravo! The Wine Economist
what price bordeaux? by Benjamin Lewin MW Vendange Press 2009 HB 235 x 160 mm 292 pp with hundreds of colour illustrations and diagrams, full indexes 978 1 93425 920 7 £32 A revolution is underway in Bordeaux. The top châteaux have been obtaining unprecedented prices for their wines, while smaller châteaux go bankrupt. Enormous changes in the production and style of wine have been accomplished by advances in viticulture and vinification coupled with climatic changes. The battle between modernists and traditionalists plays out through the garage wines, felt by some to be the newest wave, and by others to be a caricature of Bordeaux. Gathering information from a variety of sources, bestselling science and wine author Benjamin Lewin presents a unique overview of what makes Bordeaux wine what it is today. The book is a must for serious wine lovers Chicago Tribune
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FOOD AND WINE
wines of france: a guide to 500 leading vineyards
in search of pinot noir
by Benjamin Lewin MW
Vendange Press 2011
Vendange Press 2015
HB 250 x 180 mm 423 pp with hundreds of colour illustrations and diagrams, full indexes
HB 261 x 187 mm 680 pp 1260 illustrations, diagrams and maps 978 0 98372 924 2 £49.95 This, surely, must be the Bible of French Wine jancisrobison.com Wines of France provides a comprehensive account of the vineyards and wines of France today. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps of each area, it reviews wine production in all regions of France, from the top appellation wines to discoveries in Vins de France. From the classics of Burgundy and Bordeaux, to the sparkling wines of Champagne, and the challenging climates of Alsace and the Loire, from the Rhone to the Languedoc and Provence, all of France’s wine regions are included. Considering the tension between tradition and modernism, Lewin asks whether France is still the essential reference point for grape varieties and wine styles, explains how production is changing in established regions, and identifies new emerging regions. With comprehensive coverage of the wine-producing regions, and extensive reviews of 500 wine producers, this is the indispensable guide to the wines of France.
a traveller’s wine guide to germany by Freddy Price and Janet Price Interlink 2013 PB 229 x 127 mm 320 pp
978 1 56656 893 7 £17.99
Anyone looking for delicious food and wine, stunning landscapes and a warm welcome will find Germany wine country truly delightful. Germany’s different regions have the largest hectarage of vines of any country in Europe. A Traveller’s Wine Guide to Germany provides a basic introduction to German wine, from the vineyards to the cellars, with guidelines on what to expect when sampling it. It also takes the wine tourist on a journey through remote areas that are infrequently visited in order to taste the best of German wines.
by Benjamin Lewin MW
978 0 98372 920 4 £35 Like Lewin’s earlier books this is big and bold, filled with colorful (and informative) charts, maps and photos. The depth and breadth of Lewin’s analysis is impressive as he breaks down each Pinot Noir region into the historical, cultural, economic and natural forces that shaped it in the past and continues to influence it today... A great read, period, for anyone with a serious interest in Pinot Noir. I think I learned something new on almost every page Mike Veseth, Wine Economist It’s fair to say that Benjamin Lewin’s last two books... were without doubt contenders for ‘wine book of the year’. This year’s In Search of Pinot Noir deserves a similar accolade Paul O’Doherty, jancisrobinson.com
slovak wine guide by Vladimír Hronský Slovart 2018 PB 215 x 123 mm 256 pp 978 805561 340 6 £19.95 How can you get to know the history, culture and gastronomy of a country in just a few seconds? Taste its wine! Whether you’re a restaurant owner, wine trader or traveller looking forward to new discoveries in Slovakia, this book will help you to find your way around the current wines on offer on the Slovak market. Lovers of local cheeses will also appreciate this first English edition which includes a chapter on the best Slovak wine and cheese combinations.
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amber revolution: how the world learned to love orange wine by Simon J. Woolf Interlink 2018 HB 241 x 171 mm 300 pp 150 full-colour photos 978 1 62371 966 1 £30
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Written by renowned orange wine expert and award-winning
writer Simon J. Woolf, Amber Revolution is the world’s first book to tell the full, forgotten story of this ancient wine (white wine made like a red wine) and its modern struggle to gain acceptance. It is a tale of lost identity, the fight for survival, and pioneering winemakers – from the Caucasus to the Adriatic. This book includes profiles of 180 of the best producers from 20 countries worldwide and is crammed full of all the information you need to find the best orange wines worldwide together with tips for how to buy, enjoy, foodmatch and age them. Beautifully illustrated with over 150 specially commissioned photos, Amber Revolution is an essential reference work for any wine lover, sommelier, retailer or producer who wants to discover orange wine.
THE GOOD HOUSEWIFE The Good Housewife series, published in the ’80s, is available once again. Each book includes recipes taken from various styles of cooking from centuries past, ‘at once enjoyably and easily revived by the modern gadget-cosseted cook’. They are drawn by Rosemary Simmons and described by Gillian Goodwin.
rare receipts: favourite recipes of past times for the modern cook
sallets and salmagundis: salads, salad dressings
Gelofer Press 2017
Gelofer Press 2017
PB 215 x 120 mm 16 pp Staple binding 11 illustrations
PB 215 x 120 mm 32 pp Staple binding 18 illustrations
978 0 95065 292 4 £4.99
978 0 95065 291 7 £4.99
As the introduction to this collection states, ‘Old recipes show that our dishes are often very different from those of past times: but that we eat better is not always so clear.’
This volume provides an account, accompanied by many recipes, of the often-shifting ideas and tastes surrounding salad, throughout history and around the world.
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manchet and trencher: bread Gelofer Press 2017 PB 215 x 120 mm 64 pp 20 illustrations 978 0 95065 293 1 £6.99 Following a history of the importance and evolution of bread, this book’s recipes include bean bread, medieval gyngerbrede, and peynreguson (which uses wine).
RUTH SANDERSON Ruth Sanderson is the highly acclaimed illustrator of over 75 books for children. Her fairytale retellings include The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Rose Red and Snow White, Cinderella, The Snow Princess and Papa Gatto. Her original fairytale, The Enchanted Wood, won both the Young Hoosier Award and the Bank Street College Award. The Texas Bluebonnet Award was given to her retelling of The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring. She lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts. These books are published by Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink.
the golden mare, the firebird, and the magic ring 2017 HB 216 x 279 mm 32 pp 978 1 56656 079 5 £12.99 Brave deeds and wondrous magic come together in this tale based on classic Russian folklore. A young huntsman named Alexi leaves home seeking adventure and fortune. Instead, he finds the Golden Mare, who pledges eternal loyalty in exchange for sparing her life. With the mare’s help, Alexi becomes the Tsar’s best huntsman, but then the jealous Tsar presents him with several impossible tasks, threatening to have him killed if he fails. Each time, Alexi secretly enlists the help of the Golden Mare – and succeeds. But his final task is to win Yelena the Fair, a lovely young maiden whom the old Tsar wants as his bride. Will Alexi be able to use his own powers to save himself and Yelena?
the enchanted wood 2017 HB 216 x 279 mm 32 pp 978 1 56656 057 3 £12.99 winner of the young hoosier book award and the bank street college award Three princes go on a quest to the heart of the world to save their drought-ravaged kingdom. A widowed and griefstricken king calls on his three sons to end the drought. The princes eagerly accept the quest to find the heart of the world, which, once found, will save the land. One by one, each prince confidently enters the enchanted wood. This beautifully illustrated, original fairytale is filled with romance, magic and adventures and will appeal to readers of all ages.
the crystal mountain 2017 HB 250 x 250 mm 32 pp 978 1 56656 021 4 £12.99 When a weaver dreams of a lush land, she works tirelessly to recreate the place in a beautiful tapestry. But she and her three sons barely have time to admire her handiwork before the tapestry is stolen by jealous fairies. First Leon, the strong eldest son, then Blaine, the intellectual second son, vow to retrieve the tapestry. Yet neither Leon’s strength nor Blaine’s intelligence is enough to carry them to the tapestry’s whereabouts – high atop a shimmering crystal mountain. When his brothers fail to return, Perrin, the youngest son, sets off to recover the tapestry. Perrin’s determination and talent help him to outwit the fairy thieves – proving that the mightiest hero is often the most unlikely.
papa gatto, an italian fairy tale 2016 HB 204 x 254 mm 32 pp 978 1 56656 090 0 £12.99 Papa Gatto, trusted adviser to the prince, learns that judgement can be clouded by appearances when he hires the lovely Sophia to cares for his eight tiny kittens. When Papa Gatto realises his mistake, his home is in shambles, his kittens are neglected, and a priceless heirloom is in Sophia’s hands. Fortunately, the next helper he hires is Beatrice, whose affection for his kittens assures him that this time he has found someone he can trust. The crafty Sophia, however, has other ideas... With its surprising twist to the happily-ever-after ending and its exquisitely detailed illustrations, this charming Italian fairytale is sure to become a favourite of cat lovers, caretakers and hopeless romantics everywhere.
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cinderella 2016 280 x 216 mm 32 pp PB 978 1 56656 969 9 £6.99 HB 978 1 56656 947 7 £12.99 Sweet Cinderella is forced to spend her days waiting on her cruel stepsisters and stepmother, almost forgetting that she, too, was once a fine young lady with handsome clothes and a soft bed to sleep in. But when Cinderella is left at home on the night of the Prince’s ball, her fairy godmother turns pumpkin into coach, mice into horses, lizards into footmen, and Cinderella’s rags into a beautiful ball gown. At the ball Cinderella captures the heart of the Prince, but it is not until he finds the true owner of the delicate glass slipper that the two can live happily ever after.
the snow princess new edn 2018 216 x 279 mm 32 pp HB 978 1 56656 985 9 £12.99 PB 978 1 56656 098 6 £6.99 When the Snow Princess sets off to see the world, Father Frost and Mother Spring warn her never to fall in love, lest she lose her immortality. She journeys alone through many lands, keeping her heart cold, but finds herself drawn to a kind and handsome young shepherd named Sergei. The Snow Princess begins to fall in love with him, but her parents’ warning haunts her dreams, and she must finally decide her own fate in the chaos of a powerful snowstorm that threatens Sergei’s life. Inspired by a Russian ballet and illustrated with Ruth Sanderson’s lush oil paintings, this original fairytale will charm readers of all ages.
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rose red & snow white new edn 2016 280 x 216 mm 32 pp PB 978 1 56656 934 7 £6.99 HB 978 1 56656 910 1 £12.99 Rose Red and Snow White are as different as two sisters can be. Even so, they get along and, together with their mother, make a cosy life in their cottage in the woods. Then, one night, Rose Red answers a knock at the door and finds a huge shaggy bear who gruffly asks for a warm place to sleep! Although alarmed at first, mother and daughters alike are soon charmed by the bear and happily shelter him from winter nights. When spring arrives, the girls sadly watch their friend lumber off. Soon after he disappears, they make a new acquaintance. Is this the little man the bear warned them of before he left?
twelve dancing princesses 2013 PB 216 x 280mm 32 pp 978 1 56656 876 0 £6.99 Long ago, in the days of princesses, castles and magic spells, there lived a king and his twelve daughters. Although the king locked the twelve princesses in their bedroom each night, every morning their twelve pairs of dancing shoes were found to be worn quite through, as if they had been danced in all night long! The king proclaimed that anyone who discovered the secret of the worn-out shoes could marry the princess of his choice. Here is the enchanting story of how the mystery was finally solved…
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
alice in wonderland by Lewis Caroll illustrated by Dušan Kállay Slovart 2018 HB 295 x 205 mm 189 pp 978 8 07145 969 9 £19.95 Voted the best illustrated version ever of Alice in Wonderland by the Grolier Society Grand Prix Bratislava Biennial Among the most familiar books in the whole of English Literature, Alice in Wonderland is here imagined by one of the world’s most celebrated book illustrators. Kállay is one of only 25 holders of the Hans Christian Anderson Award, together with Quentin Blake and Maurice Sendak. He has created a style where warmth, sharpness, otherworldliness as well as an incredibly direct vision coexist: it is perhaps no surprise then that this edition was awarded the Grand Prix by the Grolier Club at their pathbreaking exhibition in 2015. Dušan Kállay (b.1948, Slovakia) is a painter, printmaker and illustrator. He received his Master’s Degrees in painting and printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (1972). Shortly after his graduation, his works, particularly illustrations, began to gain a wide recognition at international venues. In 1983, Dusan Kallay received the Grand Prix at the acclaimed international Biennial of Illustration Bratislava In 1988, he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for his lifelong achievement in illustration, and, in 2002, his design for a Slovak stamp History of Postal Law was recognized as the Most Beautiful Stamp of the World (WIPA International Exhibition Vienna, Austria). In 1990, Since 1994, Kallay has been Professor of Printmaking teaching printmaking and illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Dusan Kallay’s works have been exhibited extensively worldwide. His fine art prints are in numerous public collections, including Kunsthalle Nurnberg (Germany), National Gallery Prague (Czech Republic), Picture Book Forest Museum in Karuizava (Japan), University of Alberta in Edmonton (Canada), Museum of Art in Tucson (USA) and Kunstmuseum Frederikshavn (Denmark), among others. Immensely sophisticated and surreal Washington Post
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this is the chick by Wendy Hartmann illustrated by Joan Rankin Interlink 2018 HB 274 x 216 mm 32 pp 978 1 56656 039 9 £15.99 How does one tiny chick scare an entire community of ferocious animals? In Hartmann’s latest, a simple ‘cheep’ from a chick creates a frenzy in the African plains. The chick frightens the elephant, who alarms the kudu, who wakes the jackal, and so forth. Readers will enjoy following along to see the next animal and how they react. Overall, the book presents a subtle moral about rumours getting out of hand, similar to a game of ‘Telephone’. Readers will love the rhythmic flow and rhyming patterns while learning about various animals that can be found in this habitat. Unique and fun watercolour illustrations give the text a playful atmosphere, perfect for reading aloud. School Library Journal
the african orchestra
by Anthony Robinson and Annemarie Young Interlink 2017 PB 204 x 229 mm 144 pp 978 1 56656 015 3 £16.99 In Palestine today, a second generation of children and young people is growing up experiencing life under occupation. These are children who know only fear when they see an Israeli soldier or come across a roadblock. This book provides a platform for children and young people, from all over this occupied land, to speak in their own voices about the day-to-day experience of living under occupation. It begins with an explanation of what the occupation means for those living under it and is followed by the heart of the book: nine sections, each one focusing on one of the places visited by the authors. At the end, there is a timeline showing the main events that led up to the occupation.
by Wendy Hartmann illustrated by Joan Rankin
nonsens?
new edn Interlink 2017
Slovart 2017
HB 274 x 216 mm 32 pp
HB 190 x 190 mm 128 pp
978 1 56656 048 1 £14.99
978 8 07529 312 1 £14.95
With magical illustrations from Joan Rankin, and poetry from masterful storyteller Wendy Hartmann, The African Orchestra lyrically captures the magic of the African sounds of nature. In the beginning, when all things began, these were the sounds which were music to man. Cicadas, crickets, beetles and frogs, Seedpods, cocoons, hollowed out logs, Crackling fires, the patter of rain, Thundering hooves on the African plain, Birds in the air, in the trees—on the land, Wind in the grass through the leaves—over sand. A beautiful addition to any library serving young children School Library Journal
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young palestinians speak: living under occupation
by Jiří Slíva
A new publication of Jiří Slíva, whose artworks, full of humour, are presented in many galleries around the world. They invite us into the world of ‘nonsens’, a game with paradox, absurdity and grotesqueness. The reader will be laughing, but also think about the (non) sense, as Jiří Slíva says: ‘Let’s start by adding a sense of nonsense to the five senses recognised by science. Let nonsense be our sixth sense! Here’s to folly as a way of surviving.’
THE SLEEP QUILT
the sleep quilt by Tracy Chevalier and Fine Cell Work Pallas Athene 2017 PB 145 x 145 mm 240 pp 80 colour photographs 978 1 84368 146 5 £16.99 Special edition available in HB, signed by Tracy Chevalier 228 x 225 mm, 144 pp £95 The Sleep Quilt is unlike any other quilt you will have seen. Commissioned by Tracy Chevalier, it is entirely stitched and quilted by prisoners in some of Britain’s toughest prisons. Each of the 63 squares explores what sleep means in prison. A moment of escape for some, for others a dark return to all they most regret in life, sleep has a great significance in jail that is only strengthened by the difficulty of finding it in the relentlessly noisy, hot and cramped environment. By turns poignant, witty, light-hearted and tragic, The Sleep Quilt shines a light on lives that few outside can guess at. An essay by Tracy Chevalier and an introduction by Katy Emck of Fine Cell Work, the charity that made the quilt possible, as well as many quotations from prisoners, frame this remarkable work. All royalties from the sales of the books will go to Fine Cell Work. Tracy Chevalier is an American British novelist, best known for Girl with a Pearl Earring. Her interest in quilting was sparked by her research for a novel, The Last Runaway, and she is now a committed quilter. Fine Cell Work is a charity and social enterprise that runs rehabilitation projects in thirty British prisons by training prisoners in paid, skilled, creative needlework, undertaken in the long hours spent in their cells, to foster hope, discipline and self-belief.
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it. More important than that, though: they loved to sew, and they wanted to talk about it with like-minded people. Linda and I discussed our books and displayed quilts we had made. Then, during the time-honoured ‘Show and Tell’ session familiar to most quilting groups, the inmates showed us what they were working on. Many were doing needlepoint, making the cushions FCW sells online and at events. Others showed us quilts they were making – some at the beginner’s stage, others more sophisticated. One inmate told me he loved cars, and showed me a quilted picture he was making of a favoured sports car. Another was making a quilt for his wife. A third was working on a commissioned pink and grey quilt, made from the customer’s husband’s shirts. (FCW workers are particularly proud when their stitching is good enough for specially commissioned work.) It all felt surprisingly normal, and I had to keep reminding myself that we were in a prison. Prisoners may initially agree to work for FCW because they will be paid, but most of them get far more out of the
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The word “sleep” conjures up memories of when I put my children to bed. “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” was a favourite bedtime story that I read to them frequently. My sleep square tells this story of three children who go fishing for stars in a wooden shoe.
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DID YOU SEE THE CROCODILE?
grandmother’s tarot cards
the pram in the hall
by Alice Instone
by Alice Instone, with an essay by Sacha Craddock
Did You See the Crocodile? 2018
Did You See the Crocodile? 2018
PB 120 x 70 mm
HB 282 x 200 mm 150 pp Over 120 illustrations
978 1 91259 102 2 £60 incl. vat Limited edition The Grandmother’s Tarot is intended to act as a surrogate grandmother by using pictures and messages to translate some of her essence and attempt to recreate what playing cards with a wise, loving grandmother would be like. Each card has a saying around its edge offering shrewd and intuitive grandmotherly thoughts, and what we would want her to offer: wisdom, experience, reassurance, love, patience, stoicism, continuity and comfort. The Grandmother’s Tarot has been made to be played and shared but the cards also offer an additional layer of guidance through interpreting the images. Twenty-two cards resemble the Major Arcana of Tarot decks, the rest are familiar cultural and narrative motifs. The cards themselves are also therapeutic, the motifs magical, ambiguous, enigmatic.
Limited edition (150) 978 1 91259 100 8 £39.95
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Focussing on how our to-do lists reflect our state of mind, The Pram in the Hall is a meditation on how we spend our time as women (from domestic chores to our work, from food shopping and washing machine repairs to socialising, manicures, childcare and taking pets to the vet). Instone sees lists as intimate portraits that have an un-self-conscious beauty, and also that lists can be empowering – both in the writing and crossing-off. The lists contributed are an inspiring testament to how we fit it all in and a cathartic unburdening. An incredibly diverse selection of women took part, from art, politics, fashion, finance, medicine… Emma Freud’s list includes getting secret-santa gifts, ringing Jason Donovan and writing to Melinda Gates; Fiona Banner’s offers an intriguing glimpse into her working practice; and Shami Chakrabarti’s has ‘buy cotton wool’, ‘get Christmas tree’ and ‘re-read Counter Terror-Bill’ – Helen McCrory’s is unprintable!
FANTASY
alligor by Rob Brownell Pallas Athene 2015 PB 234 x 155 mm 334 pp 978 1 84368 122 9 £9.95 The oldest library in the world lies derelict and forgotten in an empty landscape. A thousand years ago, farseers prophesied these final days when the book city would fulfil the secret purpose of its founders. But what is the secret of Alligor? And who are the charming strangers with their casual violence and seductive women? Why have they come, and what do they want? Are they heroes or villains? And does love really exist, or did the authors invent it? When all you know comes from books it’s difficult to choose between truth and fiction. But being wrong might have terrifying consequences. In a world gone mad, some things are best not known; some books best left unopened…
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INDEX 100 Best Paintings in London by Geoffrey Smith............................................................................................................... 14 100 Best Paintings in New York by Deanna MacDonald and Geoffrey Smith.................................................................... 14 20th Century Graphic Designer: Abram Games by Naomi Games, Catherine Moriarty, June Rose................................... 44 9/11 Unmasked by David Ray Griffin................................................................................................................................ 69 A272: An Ode to a Road by Pieter Boogaart, Rita Boogaart............................................................................................... 82 Aesthetics of Popular Culture by Jozef Kovalcik, Max Rynänen.......................................................................................... 11 African Orchestra, The by Wendy Hartmann..................................................................................................................... 95 Alaska, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by Dennis Paulson, Les Beletsky.................................................................................... 75 Ali and His Russian Mother by Alexandra Chreiteh........................................................................................................... 55 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll................................................................................................................................. 94 All That’s Left to You by Ghassan Kanafani........................................................................................................................ 55 Alligor by Rob Brownell..................................................................................................................................................... 97 Always Coca-Cola by Alexandra Chreiteh.......................................................................................................................... 54 Amber Revolution: How the World Learned to Love Orange Wine by Simon J. Woolf..................................................... 91 America and WW1: A Traveler’s Guide by Mark D. Van Ells............................................................................................. 81 American Quarter, The by Jabbour Douaihy...................................................................................................................... 54 American Veterans on War by Elise Forbes Tripp............................................................................................................... 71 Anatomy of the Horse, The by George Stubbs................................................................................................................... 8 Ancient Egypt Guide by Prof William J Murnane.............................................................................................................. 50 Ancient Ireland Guide by Mel Gooding............................................................................................................................. 50 Andalucía by Michael Jacobs.............................................................................................................................................. 83 Andaluz: A Food Journey Through Southern Spain by Fiona Dunlop................................................................................ 84 Anton Podstrasky by Aurel Hrabušický, Filip Vanco........................................................................................................... 36 Art Galleries of the World by Helen Langdon.................................................................................................................... 12 Art in Changing Times: Painting & Sculpture in Slovakia 1890-1949 by Ján Ábelovský, Katarína Bajcurová..................... 10 Artist Quarter: Modigliani, Montmartre & Montparnasse by Charles Douglas.................................................................. 8 Ascher: The Mad Silkman by Konstantina Hlaváčková....................................................................................................... 44 At the End of the Road: The Bratislava Crematorium by Matúš Dulla............................................................................... 23 Athens, Traveller’s History of by Richard Stoneman........................................................................................................... 75 Aubrey Beardsley by Matthew Sturgis................................................................................................................................ 12 Aubrey Beardsley by Robert Ross....................................................................................................................................... 12 Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria Rilke................................................................................................................................ 5 Australia, Traveller’s History of by John H. Chambers........................................................................................................ 72 Australia: The East, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by Les Beletsky........................................................................................... 75 Bath, Traveller’s History of by Richard Tames..................................................................................................................... 73 Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony by Jan Morris.............................................................................................. 48 Beginning of the World, The by Edward Burne-Jones........................................................................................................ 13 Belize and Northern Guatemala, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by Les Beletsky....................................................................... 75 Ben Barka Lane by Mahmoud Saeed.................................................................................................................................. 58 Birth of the Arab Citizen and the Changing Middle East by Stuart Schaar......................................................................... 64 Bleeding of the Stone, The by Ibrahim Al-Koni................................................................................................................. 56 Blumenfeld by Helaine Blumenfeld, Karen Wright, Alan Caine......................................................................................... 23 Book of the Sultan’s Seal, The by Youssef Rakha................................................................................................................. 57 Bratislava – Atlas of Mass Housing by Henrieta Moravčíková............................................................................................ 19 Brazil, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by David L. Pearson, Les Beletsky................................................................................... 75 British New School by Julian Jans...................................................................................................................................... 20 British Royal Tombs by Aidan Dodson.............................................................................................................................. 49 Brussels for Pleasure by Derek Blyth.................................................................................................................................. 81 Burne-Jones Talking by Edward Burne-Jones..................................................................................................................... 13 Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World by David Ray Griffin......................................................... 69 Canada, Traveller’s History of by Robert Bothwell............................................................................................................. 77 Capitalism Hits the Fan by Richard D. Wolff..................................................................................................................... 32 Caribbean, Traveller’s History of the by James Ferguson..................................................................................................... 73
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INDEX Carnal by Kevin Jackson.................................................................................................................................................... 53 Chaplin: the Tramp’s Odyssey by Simon Louvish............................................................................................................... 47 Chomsky and Dershowitz: on Endless War and the End of Civil Liberties by Howard Friel............................................... 71 Ciao, Carpaccio! by Jan Morris.......................................................................................................................................... 48 Cinderella by Ruth Sanderson............................................................................................................................................ 93 Claret and Cabs: the Story of Cabernet Sauvignon by Benjamin Lewin............................................................................. 89 Coles to Jerusalem: A pilgrimage to the Holy Land by Kevin Jackson................................................................................ 59 Comprehensive Dictionary of the Middle East, A by Dilip Hiro........................................................................................ 65 Conjunction: Lynn Chadwick and Geoffrey Clarke by Polly Bielecka, Judith Legrove........................................................ 22 Conversations With Rossini by Ferdinand Hiller, Robert Osborne..................................................................................... 15 Costa Rica, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by Les Beletsky........................................................................................................ 75 Croatia, Traveller’s History of by Benjamin Curtis.............................................................................................................. 72 Crystal Mountain, The by Ruth Sanderson........................................................................................................................ 92 Cyprus, Traveller’s History of by Timothy Boatswain......................................................................................................... 73 David Bailey: Sculpture + by David Bailey......................................................................................................................... 23 Democratizing America: Shaf Nader and the Founding of an Impossible College by Dimitra Doukas............................... 71 Description of the Villa of Mr Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill, A by Horace Walpole.................................................. 12 Designs By Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr T. Gray by Thomas Gray, Richard Bentley............................................... 10 Dialogues with Michelangelo by Francisco de Holanda...................................................................................................... 3 Dictionary of Art Bronze Founders, France 1890-1950 by Elisabeth Lebon....................................................................... 20 Divine Names: The 99 Healing Names of the One Love by Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi........................................................... 59 Dordogne (Pallas Guide) by Joy Law.................................................................................................................................. 81 Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues by Marjorie Cohn....................................................... 63 Ecuador and The Galapagos Islands, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by David L. Pearson, Les Beletsky..................................... 75 Edouard Vuillard: The Poetry of The Everyday by Linda Thompson, Chris Stephens......................................................... 7 Effie in Venice by Mary Lutyens......................................................................................................................................... 31 Egypt, Traveller’s History of by Harry Adès........................................................................................................................ 73 Elegies of Love by Ovid, Auguste Rodin............................................................................................................................ 17 Element by Filip Kulisev.................................................................................................................................................... 39 Emily Young by Robert Bowman....................................................................................................................................... 24 Enchanted Wood, The by Ruth Sanderson......................................................................................................................... 92 End of Spring, The by Sahar Khalifeh................................................................................................................................ 56 England, Traveller’s History of by Christopher Daniell....................................................................................................... 73 English Eccentrics by Dame Edith Sitwell.......................................................................................................................... 53 Every Object Tells a Story, 2015 by Oliver Hoare............................................................................................................... 9 Every Object Tells a Story, 2017 by Oliver Hoare............................................................................................................... 9 Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta.......................................................................................................................... 58 Faces of Egypt: Images and Observations by Deborah Shea Doyle..................................................................................... 38 Florida, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by Sunquist................................................................................................................... 75 Flying Carpets by Hedy Habra........................................................................................................................................... 56 France, Traveller’s History of by Robert Cole..................................................................................................................... 72 Frantisek Horniak: World of Stamps by Antonia Paulinova................................................................................................ 11 Friedrich Weinwurm: Architect by Henrieta Moravčíková................................................................................................. 19 From the Neck Up by Reg Gadney.................................................................................................................................... 25 Gardens of Brantwood, The by David Ingram.................................................................................................................... 27 Georgian Khachapuri and Filled Bread by Carla Capalbo.................................................................................................. 86 Germany, Traveller’s History of by Robert Cole.................................................................................................................. 73 Gertrude by Hassan Najmi................................................................................................................................................ 58 Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring, The by Ruth Sanderson.......................................................................... 92 Graphic Design in Slovakia After 1918: Modernity of Tradition by Lubomir Longauer..................................................... 42 Graphic Design in Slovakia After 1918: Taking Off Traditional Clothes by Lubomir Longauer.......................................... 42 Greece, Traveller’s History of by T. Boatswain, C. Nicolson................................................................................................ 73 Guide to Baroque Rome, A: The Churches by Anthony Blunt........................................................................................... 18
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INDEX Guide to Baroque Rome, A: The Palaces by Anthony Langdon.......................................................................................... 18 Half An Hour from Paris by Annabel Simms..................................................................................................................... 80 Hanneke Beaumont by Robert Bowman............................................................................................................................ 24 Havana De Cuba by Marzena Pogorzaly............................................................................................................................ 33 Hawaii, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by Les Beletsky............................................................................................................. 75 Helaine Blumenfeld At Salisbury Cathedral by Richard Cork & Nicola Upson.................................................................. 23 Hieroglyphic Tales by Horace Walpole............................................................................................................................... 12 History of International Fashion by Didier Grumbach....................................................................................................... 45 Hogarth on High Life by Lichtenberg................................................................................................................................ 4 Hour from Paris, An by Annabel Simms............................................................................................................................ 80 If Venice Dies by Salvatore Settis........................................................................................................................................ 70 ‘In Jerusalem’ and Other Poems by Tamim Al-Barghouti................................................................................................... 17 In the House Un-American by Benjamin Hollander.......................................................................................................... 57 Incredible Ascents to Everest by Sumati Nagrath................................................................................................................ 82 India, Traveller’s History of by SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda.............................................................................................. 73 Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security by Ru Freeman.......................................................................................... 67 Ireland, Traveller’s History of by Peter Neville.................................................................................................................... 73 Islam in Retrospect by Maher S. Mahmassani.................................................................................................................... 65 Israel: Democracy Or Apartheid State? by Josh Ruebner.................................................................................................... 62 Italy, Traveller’s History of by Valerio Lintner..................................................................................................................... 73 Ivan Lendl: Alfons Mucha by Ivan Lendl........................................................................................................................... 11 Ivan Matejka by Aurel Hrabušický, Filip Vanco.................................................................................................................. 37 Ján Galanda by Aurel Hrabušický...................................................................................................................................... 36 Japan, Traveller’s History of by Richard Tames................................................................................................................... 72 Jeff Lowe: Object Lessons by James Faure Walker............................................................................................................... 26 Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation 1917–Present by Lena Jayyusi......................................... 63 Jiří Anderle: Cabinet of Curiosities by Richard Drury........................................................................................................ 11 Johannes Von Stumm by Robert Bowman......................................................................................................................... 25 John Ruskin Collection, A by Jim Dearden........................................................................................................................ 31 Journey, The by Radwa Ashour.......................................................................................................................................... 70 Julia Margaret Cameron by Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry............................................................... 4 Karol Plicka by Marian Pauer............................................................................................................................................. 37 Kilimanjaro by Michel Moushabeck, Hiltrud Schulz......................................................................................................... 82 King of the Golden River, The by John Ruskin.................................................................................................................. 32 Kythera Excavations and Studies J. N. Coldstream, G. L. Huxley...................................................................................... 79 Kosovo by Andrej Ban....................................................................................................................................................... 34 Lebanese Kitchen, The by Monique Bassila Zaarour.......................................................................................................... 87 Les Fauves: Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye in the Marjon Collection by Alexander Kader............................................... 20 Life of Beccafumi, The by Giorgio Vasari........................................................................................................................... 3 Life of Michelangelo (Condivi) by Condivi Ascanio........................................................................................................... 3 Life of Michelangelo (Vasari) by Giorgio Vasari................................................................................................................. 3 Life of Raphael by Giorgio Vasari....................................................................................................................................... 3 Life of Shakespeare by Nicholas Rowe................................................................................................................................ 4 Life of the Robin, The by David Lack................................................................................................................................ 52 Lifetime Travels With Jan, Pen and 2B by Antony Cleminson............................................................................................ 45 Light by Eva Figes.............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Lives of Adam Elsheimer by Mander, Mancini, Baglione, Sandrart, le Brun....................................................................... 3 Lives of Caravaggio by Mancini, Baglione, Bellori.............................................................................................................. 3 Lives of Gainsborough by Philip Thicknesse, William Jackson, Sir Joshua Reynolds.......................................................... 4 Lives of Giovanni Bellini by Vasari, Ridolfi, Boschini, d’Este............................................................................................. 3 Lives of Leonardo by Vasari, Bandello, Castiglione............................................................................................................. 2 Lives of Rembrandt by Filippo Baldinucci......................................................................................................................... 5 Lives of Rubens by Baglione, Sandrart, De Piles................................................................................................................. 5
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INDEX Lives of Tintoretto by Vasari, El Greco, Aretino, Boschini, Calmo, Borghini, Franco........................................................ 2 Lives of Titian by Vasari, Aretino, Speroni, Priscianese, Dolce........................................................................................... 2 Lives of Velazquez by Francisco Pacheco, Antonio Palomino.............................................................................................. 5 Lives of Veronese by Vasari, Borghini, Ridolfi.................................................................................................................... 3 London, Traveller’s History of by Richard Tames............................................................................................................... 74 Looking At Manet by Emile Zola....................................................................................................................................... 5 Lost (M)Ode: Clothing Culture in Slovakia from 1945 to 1989 by Zuzana Šidlíková........................................................ 41 Love Wins: Palestinian Perseverance Behind Walls by Afzal Huda, Phyllis Bennis.............................................................. 38 Lynn Chadwick: Out of the Shadows by Edward Lucie-Smith........................................................................................... 22 M25: Travelling Clockwise by Roy Phippen....................................................................................................................... 82 Mae West: It Ain’t No Sin by Simon Louvish..................................................................................................................... 47 Magic Places of the Earth by Tomas Micek........................................................................................................................ 39 Magick City/Vol. 1 by Ronald T. Ridley............................................................................................................................ 51 Magick City/Vol. 2 by Ronald T. Ridley............................................................................................................................ 51 Magick City/Vol. 3 by Ronald T. Ridley............................................................................................................................ 51 Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by Refugees by Becky Thompson................................................................................ 68 Malík by Aurel Hrabušický................................................................................................................................................ 36 Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity by Jackson Katz..................... 71 Man’oushé: Inside the Lebanese Street Corner Bakery by Barbara Abdeni Massaad............................................................ 86 Manchet and Trencher: Bread by Gillian Goodwin............................................................................................................ 91 Marriage of Inconvenience by Robert Brownell.................................................................................................................. 30 Marriage of Inconvenience by Robert Brownell.................................................................................................................. 30 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Argo-Saronic Islands, The by Nigel McGilchrist.................................................................... 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Box Set by Nigel McGilchrist................................................................................................ 78 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Chios by Nigel McGilchrist................................................................................................... 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Euboea by Nigel McGilchrist................................................................................................. 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Kos by Nigel McGilchrist...................................................................................................... 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Kythera by Nigel McGilchrist................................................................................................ 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Lemnos by Nigel McGilchrist................................................................................................ 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Lesbos by Nigel McGilchrist.................................................................................................. 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Mykonos by Nigel McGilchrist.............................................................................................. 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Naxos by Nigel McGilchrist.................................................................................................. 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Northern Cyclades by Nigel McGilchrist............................................................................... 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Northern Dodecanese by Nigel McGilchrist.......................................................................... 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Paros by Nigel McGilchrist.................................................................................................... 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Rhodes by Nigel McGilchrist................................................................................................. 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Samos by Nigel McGilchrist.................................................................................................. 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Santorini by Nigel McGilchrist.............................................................................................. 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Southern Cyclades by Nigel McGilchrist............................................................................... 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Southern Dodecanese by Nigel McGilchrist.......................................................................... 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Sporades by Nigel McGilchrist.............................................................................................. 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Thasos by Nigel McGilchrist.................................................................................................. 79 McGilchrist’s Greek Islands: Western Cyclades by Nigel McGilchrist................................................................................. 79 Memoir of Samuel Palmer, A by A. H. Palmer and F. H. Stephens..................................................................................... 4 Memoir of Vincent Van Gogh by Jo Van Gogh-Bonger..................................................................................................... 5 Memoirs of George Stubbs by Humphry Ozias.................................................................................................................. 4 Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds by Farington Joseph......................................................................................................... 4 Memories by Robert Vano................................................................................................................................................. 33 Memories of a Pre-Raphaelite Youth by Ford Madox Ford................................................................................................. 13 Memories of Degas by George Moore, Walter Sickert........................................................................................................ 5 Merete Ramussen by Polly Bielecka.................................................................................................................................... 25 Mexico, Travellers History of by Kenneth Pearce................................................................................................................ 74 Millais: a Sketch by M. H. Spielmann................................................................................................................................ 4
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INDEX Millais’s Collected Illustrations by Sir J. E. Millais............................................................................................................. 8 Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers by Simon Louvish............................................................ 47 Mouneh: Preserving Food for the Lebanese Pantry by Barbara Abdeni Massaad................................................................. 85 Mr Whistler’s 10 o’clock.................................................................................................................................................... 14 Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 by David Ray Griffin.................................................................................. 69 Nation’s Mantelpiece, The by Jonathan Conlin.................................................................................................................. 10 Nature of France: Brittany by Dennis Furnell, Ann Furnell................................................................................................ 80 Nature of Gothic, The by John Ruskin, William Morris..................................................................................................... 32 Neighbours and Rivals by Louis-Sebastien Mercier............................................................................................................ 50 ‘New and Noble School, A’: Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites by John Ruskin..................................................................... 31 New Zealand, Traveller’s History of by John H. Chambers................................................................................................. 72 Ninety-Ninth Floor, The by Jana Fawaz Elhassan............................................................................................................... 55 Noa Noa by Paul Gauguin................................................................................................................................................. 5 Nonsens? by Jiří Slíva......................................................................................................................................................... 95 Oh, Salaam! by Najwa Barakat........................................................................................................................................... 57 On Entering the Sea by Nizar Qabbani.............................................................................................................................. 17 On Modern Gardening by Horace Walpole....................................................................................................................... 52 Oscar Wilde, Recollections of by Charles Ricketts............................................................................................................. 51 Other Lives by Iman Humaydan........................................................................................................................................ 57 Other Slovakia, The by Andrej Bán.................................................................................................................................... 34 Palestinian Costume by Shelagh Weir................................................................................................................................ 65 Papa Gatto by Ruth Sanderson.......................................................................................................................................... 92 Paris, Traveller’s History of by Robert Cole........................................................................................................................ 74 Parisians’ Paris by Bill Gillham........................................................................................................................................... 80 Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s by Matthew Sturgis.................................................................. 53 Peru, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by David L. Pearson, Les Beletsky..................................................................................... 75 Peter Randall-Page by Philip Ball....................................................................................................................................... 24 Poetry of Arab Women, The by Nathalie Handal............................................................................................................... 17 Poland (Pallas Guide) by Sebastian Wormell...................................................................................................................... 81 Poland, Traveller’s History of by John Radzilowski............................................................................................................. 74 Portraits of the Masters: Bronze Sculptures of the Tibetan Buddhist Lineages by Donald Dinwiddle................................. 9 Portugal, Traveller’s History of by Ian Robertson................................................................................................................ 72 Portuguese Homestyle Cooking by Ana Patuleia Ortins..................................................................................................... 87 Prague At the Turn of the Century by Pavel Scheufler........................................................................................................ 32 Pram in the Hall, The by Alice Instone.............................................................................................................................. 97 Qadi and the Fortune Teller, The by Nabil Saleh................................................................................................................ 58 Racing ’n’ Roll by Martin Straka........................................................................................................................................ 39 Rambling Reminiscences: A Ruskinian’s Recollections by James S. Dearden...................................................................... 31 Rare Receipts: Favourite Recipes of Past Times for the Modern Cook by Gillian Goodwin................................................ 91 Real Rock Follies, The by Annabel Leventon...................................................................................................................... 15 Recollections of Henri Rousseau by Wilhem Uhde............................................................................................................ 5 Reel Bad Arabs by Jack G. Shaheen.................................................................................................................................... 47 Rembrandt Bugatti: Life in Sculpture by Edward Horswell................................................................................................ 22 Renaissance Emir: A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici by T. J. Gorton................................................................ 66 Rest in my Shade by Nora Lester Murad, Dana Masad...................................................................................................... 16 Reviews of John Ruskin’s ‘The Seven Lamps of Architecture’, The by Robert Brownell....................................................... 30 Rhodes With Symi & Chalki by Nigel McGilchrist........................................................................................................... 79 Rodin by Robert Bowman................................................................................................................................................. 21 Rodin: in Private Hands by D. Ekerserdjian....................................................................................................................... 21 Rodin’s Burghers of Calais by Edward Horswell................................................................................................................. 21 Roman Baroque by Anthony Blunt.................................................................................................................................... 18 Rose Red and Snow White by Ruth Sanderson.................................................................................................................. 93 Ruskin and His Contemporaries by Robert Hewison......................................................................................................... 28
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INDEX Ruskinland by Andrew Hill............................................................................................................................................... 29 Russia, Traveller’s History of by Peter Neville..................................................................................................................... 72 Russia’s Cuisine: Tradition and Modernity by Sergey Chernov........................................................................................... 88 Sallets and Salmagundis: Salads, Salad Dressings by Gillian Goodwin................................................................................ 91 Saudek by Daniela Mrazkova............................................................................................................................................. 34 Saudek Photography Posterbook by Jan Saudek................................................................................................................. 34 Scent of Jasmine, The by Anan Ameri................................................................................................................................ 54 Scotland, Traveller’s History of by AndrewFisher................................................................................................................ 74 Sculptors’ Jewellery by Emma Crichton-Miller.................................................................................................................. 26 Sculpture in the Garden by Polly Bielecka.......................................................................................................................... 26 Sculpture in the Sixties by Polly Bielecka............................................................................................................................ 22 Search of Pinot Noir, In by Benjamin Lewin...................................................................................................................... 90 Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home by Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh............................. 62 Shaft Tombs of Wadi Bairiya, The by Piers Litherland........................................................................................................ 79 Shakespeare Flickbook by Abram Games........................................................................................................................... 45 Sherazade by Leila Sebbar.................................................................................................................................................. 57 Sir Alfred Gilbert and the New Sculpture: British Sculpture by Peyton Skipwith............................................................... 20 Sleep Quilt, The by Tracy Chevalier, Fine Cell Work.......................................................................................................... 96 Slovak Architecture Yearbook 2016/2017 by Henrieta Moravcikova.................................................................................. 19 Slovak Wine Guide by Vladimir Hronsky.......................................................................................................................... 90 Snake Catcher by Naiyer Masud........................................................................................................................................ 57 Snow Princess, The by Ruth Sanderson.............................................................................................................................. 93 Solid Ground Under One’s Head by Martin Štrba............................................................................................................. 37 Soup for Syria: Recipes to Celebrate Our Shared Humanity by Barbara Abdeni Massaad................................................... 86 South Africa, Traveller’s History of by David Mason.......................................................................................................... 74 South of Eden by Andrej Ban............................................................................................................................................. 34 Southern Africa, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by B. Branch, C. Stuart, T. Stuart, W. Tarboton.............................................. 75 Southern Mexico, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by Les Beletsky.............................................................................................. 75 Spain, Travellers History of by Juan Lalaguna..................................................................................................................... 74 Spirit of the Wood, The by Juraj Čutek.............................................................................................................................. 23 Sterling Stuff II: Seventy Sculptures in Silver by Laura Cumming...................................................................................... 26 Steve Dilworth: Off the Rock by Georgina Coburn........................................................................................................... 24 Stones of Venice by John Ruskin........................................................................................................................................ 32 Storm Cloud of The Nineteenth Century, The by John Ruskin.......................................................................................... 32 Storyteller of Jerusalem, The: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh by Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar........................ 66 Sun Bread & Sticky Toffee: Date Desserts From Everywhere by Sarah al-Hamad............................................................... 87 Sylvia Edwards by Mel Gooding........................................................................................................................................ 14 Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus by Carla Capalbo.................................................................. 88 Thailand, Travellers’ Wildlife Guide by David L. Pearson, Les Beletsky.............................................................................. 75 They’d None of ‘Em Be Missed by Suart Richard............................................................................................................... 15 This Is the Chick by Wendy Hartmann.............................................................................................................................. 95 Torch At Midnight, A by Robert Brownell......................................................................................................................... 30 Touch by Adania Shibli...................................................................................................................................................... 55 Traveller’s Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Carl Shillto and Mike Tolhurst............................................. 81 Traveller’s Wine Guide to Germany by Freddy Price and Janet Price.................................................................................. 90 Turkey, Traveller’s History of by Stoneman......................................................................................................................... 74 Twelve Dancing Princesses by Ruth Sanderson................................................................................................................... 93 Typografikum: Alphabet of Contemporary Visual Communication & Culture by Vladislav Rostoka, Dušan Junek........... 44 Typography and Type Design in Slovakia: It All Began with Cyril and Methodius by Ľubomír Longauer.......................... 44 Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer by Phyllis Bennis........................................................................ 64 Understanding the Us-Iran Crisis by Phyllis Bennis........................................................................................................... 64 Unto This Last by John Ruskin.......................................................................................................................................... 32 Upon the Gardens of Epicurus by Temple William Sir....................................................................................................... 52
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INDEX USA, Traveller’s History of the by Daniel J. McInerney...................................................................................................... 74 Venice for Pleasure by J.G. Links....................................................................................................................................... 83 Venice, Traveller’s History of by Peter Mentzel.................................................................................................................. 74 Viktor Frešo by Katarina Bajcurova.................................................................................................................................... 10 Vision for My Father, A by Rajie Cook.............................................................................................................................. 62 Voice Male: The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men’s Movement by Rob A. Okun........................................................ 70 Walking in Italy by Gillian Souter, John Souter.................................................................................................................. 81 Wallace, Sir Richard, ‘The Most Fortunate Man of his Day’: Connoisseur, Collector, Philanthropist by Suzanne Higgott.. 6 War on Truth by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed....................................................................................................................... 71 We Are All Equally Far from Love by Adania Shibli........................................................................................................... 56 Weight of Paradise, The by Iman Humaydan..................................................................................................................... 54 Western Wadis of the Theban Necropolis, The................................................................................................................... 79 What Price Bordeaux? by Benjamin Lewin......................................................................................................................... 89 When All the Lands Were Sea by Tor Eigeland................................................................................................................... 38 Wine Myths & Reality by Benjamin Lewin........................................................................................................................ 89 Wines of France by Benjamin Lewin.................................................................................................................................. 90 World Heritage Sites of Great Britain & Ireland by Victoria Huxley.................................................................................. 81 Worlds of John Ruskin, The by Kevin Jackson................................................................................................................... 27 Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation by Anthony Robinson and Annemarie Young................................... 95 Zachary Eastwood-Bloom: Divine Principles by Mark Miodownik.................................................................................... 25 Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees by Ersi Sotiropoulos............................................................................................ 58
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