Shirley Trevena is a successful and popular watercolourist with a huge international fan base. Throughout her career Shirley has pushed the boundaries…
Shirley Hughes is one of the best known and most popular creators of children's books, and her keen observation of family life have earned her a speci…
In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from a cheesy revue tour called 'Hot from Harlem'. Depressed, disillusioned and…
Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent a…
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Alaska is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see…
The book draws on a series of practitioner-led talks by the photographers John Duncan, Mary McIntyre, Donovan Wylvie, Paul Seawright, Kai Olaf Hesse a…
Discover the world of science through easy-to-follow experimentsWhat are materials? What are a material's properties and how do these vary? What is th…
A groundbreaking study of a remarkable artist, described by the New York Times as `a figure ahead of her time'. The significance of Hannah Ryggen (18…
From black magic and Satanism to Gnostic sects and Gurdjieff's Fourth Way, the left-hand path has been linked to many practices, cults, and individual…
Approaching retirement and daunted by the change? Wanting to retire early and wondering where to start? Retirement: The Psychology of Reinvention is h…
It's unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind . (Zadie Smith via Twitter on My S…
It is the early months of the Arab Spring, 2011. But for three young men, two American and one Iraqi, their minds return again and again to 2006, to t…
A short, essential introduction to Black British historyWhen did Africans first come to Britain?Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian pa…
