`Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are…

A meditation on the colour spectrum by the painter, poet and film-maker, Derek Jarman. He explains the use of colour in…

A series of autobiographical fragments, interviews and newspapers extracts in which the painter, theatre designer and…

Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly…

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time.…

A raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any,…

Marina Picasso remembers being six years old and standing awkwardly in front of the gates of Picasso's grand house near…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEIL BARTLETT 'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The…

• Rok vydání 2007

Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. But as…

The creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry VIII and Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton's career spans 50 films and 40…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR PAUL MCCARTNEYFirst published in 1964 and 1965, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works are…

Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus…

Shows how easy it is to transform everyday items into extraordinary statement pieces. This book features 24 inspiring and…

• Rok vydání 2019

The story of Tommy Nutter is the story of a man who climbs up from nothing to reshape the silhouette of British fashion. It…

In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world and the darling of the 'Salon'…

Greta Garbo's enduring legend derives from her incandescent performances as a woman in love in such classics as Camille,…

• Čeština

Her new book, invaluable for all who want to write as well as read poems, reveals the journey of thought, language and music…

Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. The delightful satires of marriage Lady…

Henry Irving - a merchant's clerk who became the saviour of British theatre - and Ellen Terry, who made her first theatre…

The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Hicks shows us this…

• Počet stran 600

A collection of poems both old and new, spanning a career of ground-breaking writing. Dearly gave us Atwood’s first new…

Poem for the Day Two is a repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite. Chosen for their…

This 1997 revised and updated biography of the celebrated artist, using the mass of new material which has come to light…

• Rok vydání 2017

Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was…

From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. After Picasso's death, his…

Intends to recreate the Pablo Picasso's life and work during the decade of 1907-17 - a period during which the artist and…