Alice Stevenson is an artist and a Londoner who neither drives, runs nor cycles. Instead Alice walks navigating the city's parks, pavements and paths daily. In this, her first book, she is a unique guide with a unique eye. Ways to Walk is a revelation; beautifully illustrated it includes walks above and below ground, on paths and waterways, to beauty spots and curious corners of a multi-layered city.

Ways to Walk in London: Hidden Places and New Perspectives

Arts & Photography

Stevenson, Alice

Individual Artists

September Publishing (UK)

The Post-War period of progressive civic architecture and art gave rise to some of the UK's most important pieces of publically owned artwork. From the Chadwick figures in Roehampton and a bronze Hepworth in Cardiff to the less well-known Cuminsky murals in Skelmersdale and the vivid Schottland shapes in Warwick, these works of art have become familiar companions, backdrops to British lives. Now with the increased interest in the buildings and architects of the Post-War era the time is right to consider the role of sculpture in these Modernist landscapes. There is also an urgency to this photographic survey, as many crucial works have been lost or destroyed. As acclaimed photographer Simon Phipps journeyed around the UK he uncovered forgotten treasures as well as unexplained losses. This is the first photographic survey of Modernist sculpture within the Brutalist context and as a celebration (and lament) for the extraordinary works produced in a period of systemic support and commissioning in the Arts there will be considerable press interest around Simon Phipps and the book at publication.

Concrete Poetry: Post-War Modernist Public Art

Phipps, Simon

Photography & Video

An inspirational, illustrated guide to Europe's 135 best bakeries. From the splendid Eccles cakes of London's St John Bakery to the delicate pasteis de nata at Manteigaria in Lisbon, Europe's Best Bakeries has baked goods for every taste. Breads run from giant sourdough loaves at Poilâne in Paris to more than twenty types of focaccia at Genoa's Panificio Mario. The aroma of just-baked bread, the chewy bite of an oven-fresh bagel and the thrill of a cream-filled patisserie are conjured up in this enticing list of bakeries from the UK, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Spain, Greece, Italy, Germany and France. A fascinating, mouth-watering and unique introduction to Europe's long and impressive baking tradition.

Europe's Best Bakeries: Over 130 of the Finest Bakeries, Cafes and Patisseries Across Great Britain and the Continent

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Guy, Sarah

Baking

Ten years ago, Angela Kiss arrived in the UK without a word of English. All she brought with her was a small bag, a sense of adventure, a desire to work and a copy of George Mikes's classic 1940s humour book about the peculiarities of the British, How to be an Alien. 'In England everything is typical. If your train is late, it is typical. If there are no seats on the upper deck of a bus, it is typical. If it starts to rain at five o'clock just before you leave work, it is typical.' Through every dodgy flat share, low-paid waitressing job, awkward date and office mishap, Angela held tight to George's wit and wisdom. With his help she began to understand how to live amongst the English - with their eccentricity, spirit and singing train drivers - and fell in love with a land rich in green spaces, pubs and puddings. 'The English do not like to be wished "Have a nice day", because to them it sounds like a command. They think, Who the hell do you think you are to order me to have a nice day?' A wry, often affectionate view on the English, and how to navigate our national personality.

How to be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

Humor & Entertainment

Kiss, Angela

Humor

The Perfect Stranger

First published in 1966, this extraordinary memoir has collected a passionate band of devotees. Written with a poet's precision, it is a funny, absorbing and brilliantly portrayed rite of passage - from school playing fields to war's battlefields, holiday camps to writers' hang-outs, Brighton to Paris, Korea to Oxford, Barcelona to Jakarta ... Driving the narrator is a desire to recount the effect of a singular young woman; the love of her and the loss of her. A joyous and movingly wise evocation of youth, travel and love; those moments of maximum brilliance, at the edge of possibility.

Biographies & Memoirs

Kavanagh, P.J.

Arts & Literature

Curated, written, and illustrated by American artist and ceramicist Molly Hatch, this beautifully produced book explores the intimate family stories and fascinating history revealed by single, treasured pieces. It is a book for anyone who has cherished their grandmother's dinner service or asked for the story behind a beloved object.

A Passion for China: A Little Book About the Objects We Eat From, Live with and Love

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hatch, Molly

Crafts & Hobbies

Over 900 of London's most interesting historial inhabitants and their former homes brought to life.

The English Heritage Guide to London's Blue Plaques: The Lives and Homes of London's Most Interesting Inhabitants

Historical

An inspiring visual adventure across Great Britain. Driven by curiosity, restlessness and a desire to better understand her own country, artist Alice Stevenson spent two years exploring and drawing Great Britain. With an eye for the odd and an antenna for the unexpectedly beautiful, she documented her slow, attentive forays. Her journeying was wide: steam trains in Snowdonia, art galleries on remove Scottish islands, Kent coastlines, Dorset villages, East Anglian saltmarshes, the erstwhile utopias of Harlow and Portmeirion and the wild fells of eastern Cumbria. Yet she found many hidden delights in the dense populations of cities, from Hull and Plymouth, to Belfast and Edinburgh. The result is a book celebrating detail, of landscape and architecture, and creativity, an essential human urge. A rich, artistic journey through a land deep in natural and man-made puzzles and wonders.

Ways to See Great Britain: Curious Places and Surprising Perspectives

A beautiful and delightfully handy art book that is designed to inspire, this collection of 150 beautifully reproduced Vincent Van Gogh images makes a stylish gift. His writings have been edited and selected to create an enlightening, uplifting, and helpful book for art lovers and creatives, amateur and professional alike.

Creative Inspiration: Van Gogh

VAN GOGH, Vincent

History & Criticism

A photographic exploration of the post-war modernist architecture of London. This collection of unique and evocative photography of Brutalist architecture by Simon Phipps casts the city in a new light. Arranged by inner London Borough, BRUTAL LONDON takes in famous examples such as the Trellick Tower, the Brunswick Centre and the Alexandra Road Estate, as well as lesser known housing and municipal spaces. It serves as an introduction to buildings the reader may see every day, an invitation to look differently, a challenge to look up afresh, or to seek out celebrated Brutalism across the capital. The book's portable size and maps for each borough make it useful and practical; while the design, by leading agency A Practice for Everyday Life, echoes the aesthetic of Brutalist architecture with rough textured edges and fonts inspired by the site maps of modernist estates. Finalist for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2017, Photographic Books, Art / Architecture Monographs.

Brutal London: A Photographic Exploration of Post-War London

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