What came first, the artist or the muse? Exploring this question is the very heart of this book, looking at artists who had complex relation...

At least they can't cancel Spring was a refrain coined by David Hockney in 2020 when he found himself locked down in Normandy, surround...

Establishing a path for future generations to tread in the footsteps of silent witnesses was the goal of Douglas Gillespie, a young officer ...

Reading this book reminded me of the adage: " Poets, we get it. Some things remind us of other things."  All very amusing, but it ...

Much has been written about the pros and cons of using slang in fiction. It's a difficult act to pull off, if your audience cannot under...

The act of self-reflection is an indulgence and one that women throughout history have seldom had the opportunity to do, more often being th...

  Written in the centenary of the death of Katherine Mansfield, this book looks to explore the short life and short works of this writer. Sh...

This is such a light book, wrapped in a simple white and gold jacket, so unassuming and yet what a glorious explosion of colour, sound, text...

"I like going from one lighted room to another - such is my brain to me. Lighted rooms and the walks in the fields are corridors" ...

  Textiles are vital to our lives. We are swaddled in them when we’re born, we wrap our bodies in them every day and we’re shrouded in them ...

Imagining our home, town and local landscape as a wasteland; envisaging the future for our sea-ravaged coasts and climate-battered green spa...

In the spring of 1936, a young author set about planting a garden in his rented cottage. Awaiting the arrival of his new wife and hoping to ...

            Red runs through           like a weeping wound -           a scab twice picked. - Tracey Foster There's a red thread that r...

The current exhibition at Leicester museums and art galleries explores the brief but electrifying period that encompasses the explosion of t...

There’s an omnipresent overseer throughout Jarman’s Modern Nature . It manifests in different forms as he switches from daily records of the...