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Another fantastic adventure in the animal kingdom for readers aged 5 to 500. Join the Queen on one of her rare days-off, as she and her loveable pe...

'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' Grayson Perry This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by ...

'60 fantastical structures described and illustrated in this colourful and highly entertaining book.' The Sunday Times 'If you can't think of a p...

Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspo...

Sunday Times bestseller We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Hum...

Product Description Francis Bacon was one of most elusive and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. However much his avowed a...

The modern workplace has evolved from a dehumanized cubicle landscape to space designed for intelligent human life. While utility and amenity are ...

Product Description The inspirational inside story from the 2018 Tour de France and Sports Personality of the Year winner "This year G was the st...

From the Pyramids of Giza to the Guggenheim, this lively guide explains the key concepts and inventions in architecture clearly and concisely. Expl...

Review Superb ... makes clear that the revelation of this plague has been twofold: our hubris has been shattered, yet there remains a staggeri...

A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-st...

'Needle-sharp analysis from the front line' Ian Rankin 'Utterly compelling' Henry Marsh 'Wonderful ... A heartbreaking chronicle of the NHS's nea...

Product Description 7 Reece Mews, South Kensington, was Francis Bacon's home and studio for over thirty years. After he died in 1992, access was ...

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly wi...

About the Author David Dickinson was born in Dublin. With an honours degree in Classics from Cambridge, David Dickinson joined the BBC, where he b...

'A wild, darkly comic nightmare set on the borderlines of creativity, imagination and madness.' Guardian 'Thompson's prose, contaminated by Bacon'...

Review Henry expounds his case with the contagious, even bullish, enthusiasm of the committed teacher, and the book is carefully pitched at an int...

“FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biograph...