Inspiring Older Readers
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White Trash – Uncut posted on 02 Apr 2017
The counter-cultural earthquake of the second half of the 1970s that the term ‘punk’ has come to represent...
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People’s Art : Working Class Art from 1750 to the Present Day posted on 26 Mar 2017
This book is a classic case of a slow-burner – it’s been sitting on my shelves for years...
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The Changing Face of Childhood: British Children’s Portraits and their Influence in Europe posted on 17 Mar 2017
This book was produced jointly by Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Städel Museum as a catalogue to accompany a travelling exhibition
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The Poet Assassinated posted on 27 Feb 2017
The poetry and prose of Guillaume Apollinaire is thought of as one of the seminal bodies of work in the early years of the twentieth century.
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The Book of Tea posted on 19 Feb 2017
When I was a child in the late 1950s and early 1960s one of the few things we thought we knew about the mysterious East ..
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The City posted on 12 Feb 2017
I love the work of this Swiss born Australian illustrator.
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The Roma Journeys posted on 04 Feb 2017
Has there been a more persecuted minority culture than the Roma?
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My Pretty Little Art Career posted on 29 Jan 2017
I suspect that the artist Grayson Perry is very close to becoming something of a media darling ...
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The Party posted on 16 Jan 2017
Born in Strasbourg in 1931, Tomi Ungerer might well be best known as a prolific and excellent illustrator of children’s books.
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Charles Dickens 1812-1870 : A biography, with examples of the work his finest illustrators posted on 01 Jan 2017
This is a genuinely curious and fascinating book produced in 1962