Blank inside, this card comes with a white envelope & is cello wrapped. The Coconut Tin Card Company is the creation of London based illustrator Finn Dean, award winning illustrator of evocative cityscapes & landscapes, which blend 20th century aesthetic with contemporary imagery. ...

Theatre of Fish documents John Gimlette’s travels along the coast of Newfoundland & Labrador, in a journey that broadly mirrors that of his great-grandfather, Dr Eliot Curwen, who spent a summer there as a doctor in 1893. Gimlette’s ancestor was witness to both some of the most beautiful landscapes & some of the cruellest poverty in the British Empire. Using Curwen’s frank journal, Gimlette revisits the places it describes & explores his own links with the brutal icy l&. ...

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At the beginning of the Second World War the Ministry of Information, through the advice of Kenneth Clark, commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph the Home Front. Beaton set to work recording the destruction of the Wren churches in the City & the heroism of Londoners under attack. He conducted a survey of Bomber & Fighter Commands for the RAF, which was published with Beaton`s own astute commentary. Beaton was an effective propagandist, but his voice, like his photographs, was touchingly elegant. Whatever his subject, Beaton was always a stylist. Beaton`s wartime work for the Ministry amounted to seven thousand photographs, which are now housed with their negatives at the Imperial War Museums. They form a great document both of the landscape of war & of the passing of the Empire. He travelled through the Western Desert & on to Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan & Syria. In 1943 he left for India where he photographed the final days of the Raj in New Delhi & Calcutta before joining the Burma campaign. He ended the war deep in Chinese territory where he witnessed the Nationalist resistance to the Japanese. Beaton`s inherent sense of theatre extended from palatial drawing rooms to the jungle & the desert. Whatever the circumstances he never departed from his radical aesthetic. ” Theatre of War” is published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museums on the occasion of a major exhibition. ...

Paul Ibell`s ” Theatreland” combines historical narrative with a unique exploration of how London`s theatre works today. Covering the five centuries from Shakespeare`s Bankside playhouses to today`s West End, Paul Ibell`s ” Theatreland” explores the history & current state of the London stage, taking the reader through the streets, squares & alleyways of the theatre capital of the world. London`s theatre district is quite literally built on the past, & although the book celebrates this, & the artistic achievements that still resonate today, it also emphasises that theatre is an art form that can only survive & flourish through fresh talent, new work & constant reinterpretation of old classics. Through a series of entertaining & engaging chapters on themes, personalities & trends, ” Theatreland” reflects the effortless co-existence between past & present that is such a feature of London`s theatre world, & shows how actors & producers, playwrights & publicists, theatre historians & modern architects, choreographers, critics & customers all play their part in ensuring that London remains the theatre capital of the world.” Theatreland” brings back to life the generations of actors, impresarios, princes & playwrights, restaurateurs & hoteliers who created & shaped this cityscape, & describes how the 21st century theatre industry continues to develop & change. ...

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, & his `damaged two-hundred-&-twenty-pound brother` Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey`s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant & moving exploration of art, fraud, responsibility & redemption. ...

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds.. .` For me, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD is one of the very greatest American novels of the 20th century. It is so lyrical it should be sentimental; it is so passionate it should be overwrought, but it is instead a rigorous, convincing & dazzling piece of prose, as emotionally satisfying as it is impressive. There is no novel I love more` Zadie Smith ...

” Ian Buruma`s maternal grandparents were born into the same world: children of German-Jewish emigre stockbrokers living in London. But at the demand of his parents, Ian`s grandfather, the dutiful son, broke up with his fiancee by letter just before leaving for the Western Front during World War One, where he served as a stretcher bearer in the Battle of the Somme. It was the first great shock their romance would suffer, but their love would survive it. Bernard (` Bun`) & Winifred (` Win`) Schlesinger were married for more than sixty years, but the heart of their story lies within the span of the two world wars. This is the moving story of an assimilated Jewish family in unhappy times. With the outbreak of war in 1939, the Schlesingers began to face the real prospect that the Nazis could defeat England & place their family`s survival in question. Nonetheless, they helped twelve Jewish children escape from Nazi Germany & gave them new lives in Britain. Drawn into service during World War Two, Bun was stationed in India as a military doctor. No matter what else befell them, Win & Bernard sustained a remarkably consistent stream of letters back & forth between England & India, averaging a letter every other day, & filling their correspondence with vivid accounts of wartime activity. Back home, Win struggled through wartime privation & the Blitz to hold her family together. Through courage & imagination, she cast a spell over her children that kept fear & horror at bay. Their Promised Land is Ian Buruma`s spellbinding homage to the sustaining power of a family`s love & devotion through very dark days.” ...

Ian Buruma`s maternal grandparents, Bernard & Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school at Uppingham & Win was taking music lessons in Hampstead. They were married for more than sixty years, but the heart of their remarkable story lies within the span of the two world wars. After a brief separation, when Bernard served as a stretcher bearer on the Western Front during the Great War, the couple exchanged letters whenever they were apart. Most of them were written during the Second World War & their correspondence is filled with vivid accounts of wartime activity at home & abroad. Bernard was stationed in India as an army doctor, while Win struggled through wartime privation & the Blitz to hold her family together, including their eldest son, the later film director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday), & twelve Jewish children they had arranged to be rescued from Nazi Germany. Their letters are a priceless record of an assimilated Jewish family living in England throughout the upheavals of the twentieth century & a moving portrait of a loving couple separated by war. By using their own words, Ian Buruma has created a spellbinding homage to the sustaining power of a family`s love & devotion through very dark days ...

Thelwall in 1908 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the village of Thelwall on the south side of the Mersey, just east of Warrington. Coverage stretches from Morrisbrook Farm eastward to Thelwall Bridge, & from the Mersey southward to Massey Hall. Features include Thelwall station on the LNWR, Thelwall Hall, a stretch of the Manchester Ship Canal, Mostyn Tube Works, All Saints church, Greenfield House, Old Hall Farm, Massey Hall, Dog & Dart Inn, Thelwall Ferry, etc. On the reverse is a directory of Thelwall plus a railway timetable for the Manchester-Arpley-Liverpool line in 1929. Please note that due to an error this map bears the sheet number 27.05.* About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...