Calcutta, 1837. Young Ensign William Avery is tasked by his employers
- the East India Company
- to track down disgraced agent

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This book is a pure celebration of the art of the stencil. It is a book of stencils that can be used & treasured or just simply be an inspiration to others to create. The 20 stencils featured, printed on perforated card stock so that they can be torn out & used, have been created by an impressive list of international street artists, from the masters to the new kids on the block. Each artist has created an in-situ photograph to accompany their stencil, showing how they would use it, along with other imagery. There is also a short biography for each artist. The book opens with an interview with the founder of stencil art, the Paris-based artist Blek Le Rat, who has also created a stencil for the book. A collectors item in its own right, the book is a must for artists, illustrators & anyone who loves street art. ...

This double-sided foldout book takes you on a fascinating journey deep underground. One side of the foldout shows the ground beneath the city, whilst the reverse side shows the ground beneath the countryside. The underground scenes include tunnels & pipes, creatures` burrows, layers of rock & the planet`s molten core, & run seamlessly into the next. Mixing urban & rural settings, covering subjects such as geology, archaeology & natural history, The Street Beneath My Feetoffers children the opportunity to explore their world through a detailed learning experience. & its fold-out, `laperello` style, which extends to 2.5 metres in length, is ideal for spreading out on the floor to pore over for hours. ...

This unique, stunningly illustrated journal is ideal to be used as a travelling notebook or sketchpad. Food lovers & travel enthusiasts will love exploring street food from all around the world through Sophia Augusta`s vibrant illustrations. There is something for everyone, from the instantly recognisable (Italian ice cream, American hot dogs & Belgian waffles) to more unusual delicacies such as starfish on sticks from China & `red red` stew from Ghana. It contains 128 blank pages & 26 colourful illustrations to inspire your notes & sketches. ...

A beautifully illustrated art history & cultural biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities focuses on one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries
- London`s Tite Street, where a staggering amount of talent thrived, including James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler, Oscar Wilde & John Singer Sargent. For Wilde, the street was full of `wonderful possibilities`, while for Whistler it was `the birthplace of art`, where a new brand of aestheticism was nurtured in his controversial White House. Modern masterpieces in art & literature flowed from the studios & houses of Tite Street, but this bohemian enclave had a dark side as well. Here Whistler was bankrupted, Frank Miles was sent to an asylum, Wilde was imprisoned, & Peter Warlock was gassed to death. Throughout its turbulent existence, Tite Street mirrored the world around it. From the Aesthetic movement & its challenge to Victorian values, through the Edwardian struggle for women`s suffrage, to the bombs of the Blitz in the 1940s, it remained home to innumerable artists & writers, socialites & suffragettes, musicians & madmen. The Street of Wonderful Possibilities reveals this complex history, tying together private & professional lives to form a colourful tapestry of art & intrigue, illuminating their relationships to each other, to Tite Street & to a rapidly modernising London at the fin de siecle.
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The Street Philosopher & the Holy Fool presents the unexpected face of Syria. Based on five journeys, undertaken over as many years, Kociejowski`s book is entirely concerned with the slow journey towards friendship. So we learn nothing about coups or conspiracies, iconic monuments or historic travellers. Instead we meet a chance handful of Syrians, such as Myrna, a Christian faith-healing stigmatic, Yasser, a Palestinian refugee & political activist, Abu al-Tahib, a prince of fools, a modern desert father, Paolo Dall` Oglio, & the street philosopher & the holy fool of the book`s title. It was written during the era of conversation, before the use of mobiles, & long before the current civil war. Saluted as a travel classic on first publication (just 12 years ago) it is now in danger of becoming a testament to the last of the old Levant. ...

Based on his own visits to Syria, in The Street Philosopher & the Holy Fool, Marius Kociejowski presents a completely fresh & unexpected face to this mysterious country. The ancient land of Syria remains for many a sinister & forbidding destination, only recently opening up to foreign travellers, & Kociejowski describes a journey that brings him into contact with a host of colourful & unusual characters, each of whom is an outsider of sorts. Rich with humour & insight, it glows with the delights of the unexpected. It is beautifully written & provides a memorable account of the deeper purposes of travel: to absorb the spirit of a place, to meet people from a different sphere of life & to return changed. ...

On the crowded streets of New York City there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day.. .only some of these stories survive to become history. Lamont Williams, recently released from prison & working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past. Meanwhile Adam Zignelik, the son of a prominent Jewish civil rights lawyer, is facing a personal crisis: almost 40-years-old, his long-term relationship is faltering & his academic career has stalled. It`s only when one of his late father`s closest friends, the civil rights activist William Mc Cray, suggests a promising research topic that the possibility of some kind of redemption arises. Dealing with memory, racism & the human capacity for guilt, resilience, heroism, & unexpected kindness, ” The Street Sweeper” spans over fifty years, & ranges from New York to Melbourne, Chicago, Warsaw & Auschwitz, as these two very different paths
- Adam`s & Lamont`s
- lead to one greater story.

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In 1882, David Wildeblood, a 21-year-old from rural Norfolk, arrives in London to start work at the offices of a famous man. As an 'inspector' for Henry Marchmont's hugely successful weekly The Labouring Classes of London, his job is to investigate the notorious slum of Somers Town, near the new St Pancras Station, recording house by house the number of inhabitants, their occupations & standard of living. By mapping the streets in this way, Marchmont intends to show the world the stark realities of poverty in its greatest city. Befriended by Jo, a young coster, & his sister Roma, David comes to learn the slang of the hawkers & traders, sharpers & scavengers, magsmen & mobsmen, who throng the teeming byways of Somers Town. It is the place of a Darwinian struggle for survival. & the deeper he penetrates the everyday squalor & destitution the more appalled he is by mounting evidence that someone is making a profit from people's suffering. A dinner at the Kensington home of his godfather Sir Martin Elder introduces him to Kitty, Elder's only daughter, & to a cabal of prominent citizens who have been plotting a radical solution to the problem of London's poor. David belatedly realises that a conspiracy is afoot. Passionate but reckless in his urge to uncover it he finds his life in danger, sustained only by the faithfulness of a friend &, ultimately, the love of a woman. In The Streets Anthony Quinn reconstructs an unforgettable picture of Victorian London, encompassing the extremes of privilege & privation, from the baronial mansions of the rich to the 'whited tombs' of the slums. With shocking poignancy & pin-sharp detail he brings to life a world of terrible degradation, yet one redeemed by dark comedy, profound fellow-feeling & the enduring possibility of love. ...

For hundreds of years, the City of Light has set the stage for larger-than-life characters
- from medieval lovers Heloise & Abelard
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