Dora

Devlin, Polly

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, 1919 - 1979

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Simon&Schuster

Illustrated by Yannick Vu. This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called Mary Ellen Martin. Mary-Ellen's father was a fisherman on the Lough and their lives were simple. She tells her small charge about the characters who made up the little community: Old Forbie, Jem the Bridge, Barney Dugh, Mickel Heron. Hers are the stories of a child's world, where places seem bigger than they really are and events more momentous. Her 'world' is her immediate environment: the car lane, the pin tree, Golloman's Point, the graveyard and the Lough. One of the most gripping stories is The China Doll, where Mary Ellen tells of the wonder of receiving, in a parcel from an aunt in America, a beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed doll -- her very first. The delight in the story makes its shocking conclusion all the more heart-rending. Mary-Ellen's tales are full of the colloquialisms of Northern Ireland. Beautifully and seamlessly told, they evoke a time long since passed and a child's unique view of the world.

The far side of the lough: Stories from an Irish childhood

V. Gollancz

Dublin (American Express Travel Guides)

Travel

Europe

Macmillan General* Reference

Elusive, transparent, striking, passionate, and, above all, representative of the times, fashion presents an elegant and challenging subject to the best of photographers. Here, in one beautiful volume, is a collection of the best fashion photography to appear in 'Vogue,' the world's leading fashion magazine. Some of the most talented photographers of the century are included - artists such as Baron de Meyer, Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, and Helmut Newton. Concerned with portraying the ideal image of the woman of the day, these photographers create a vision at once attractive, elegant, and seductive - real and surreal, admired and unattainable. At its best, this vision combines art, techniques, psychology, and salesmanship with an understanding of the motivations and desires of the public. This collection provides a rare opportunity to study the evolution of dress, behavior, and attitudes in our society, and to appreciate the development of the art of fashion photography and its principal subject -the image of woman. (includes 235 illustrations, 25 in color).

Vogue Book of Fashion Photography: The First Sixty Years

William Morrow & Co.

The Far Side of the Lough: Stories from an Irish Childhood

Children's Books

The O'Brien Press

A look inside the homes of New York’s artists, designers, writers, and social influencers. Twenty-four homes and stories of real New Yorkers who live in small spaces with art, books, collections, treasures, and fabulous, sometimes funky furniture―each space expressing the resident’s unique personality. Bright, captivating photographs throughout pair dynamically with Polly Devlin’s in-depth interviews with the homeowners. Her critiques of their spaces are at once delightful, bold, and irreverent―and always lively and opinionated. From architectural grandeur to streamlined modern buildings, see how individuals turn older apartments and historic structures into places for comfortable living. Houses and apartments are sampled from across the city, including Tribeca, Murray Hill, Union Square, Harlem, Midtown, Brooklyn, and more. This is a visual and literary feast. Polly Devlin is an author, journalist, broadcaster, art critic. From her roots in northern Ireland, Devlin’s career has taken her into the sophisticated world of arts and letters in London, New York, and Paris. A former features editor at Vogue, and a contributor to key British newspapers and magazines, she is currently adjunct professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Photographer Annie Schlechter is a native New Yorker whose clients include New York Magazine, House Beautiful, Travel + Leisure, and The World of Interiors.

New York Behind Closed Doors

Architecture

Gibbs-Smith

Dublin (American Express travel guides)

Beazley

Nobody sees things quite like Polly Devlin. Her writing is witty, entertaining, spontaneous and idiosyncratic--and it nudges your vision of the world into a slightly different skew. In this collection she writes about lost dogs, Venetian palaces, married life, her Irish background, police brutality, rooks nesting, a museum in Paris, shopping with daughters-- everyday lives, especially women's lives, and the growth of their souls.

Writing Home

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Pimpernel Press

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