In the decades around 1900 postcards were Twitter e-mail Flickr & Facebook all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the globe wreaking havoc on international postal systems & giving rise to anecdotes about overburdened postmen who had to leave bags of cards undelivered. Many of these cards were thrown away after they had served their purpose. But not all as the craze for buying & sending postcards was married to a craze for collecting them. Millions upon millions of postcards were never posted; instead they were tucked into boxes & albums unused & in mint condition. Drawing on one of the finest & most comprehensive collections of postcards anywhere The Postcard Age" traces how big historical & cultural themes of the modern era played out on the postcards tiny canvas. Taken together the almost 400 postcards represented in this book provide a vivid picture of the concerns trends & pastimes of another era as well as a sampler of the artistic & historical riches offered by these messengers of the modern age." ...

WATFORD has witnessed an unprecedented number of changes over the years. The nineteenth & early twentieth centuries saw a great industrial & residential expansion which was followed by the Blitz the reconstruction & the changes of the 1960s & 1970s to accommodate the growing traffic. Watford has been fortunate in having a number of dedicated photographers to record the developments as they happened. This informative & interesting volume places an emphasis on the people of Watford
- where they worked how they travelled & what they did to relax & enjoy themselves. This brand new selection of images from John Cooper is sure to surprise & delight anyone who knows & loves this area.
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From around 1880 for almost 100 years shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted as well as their magnificent liners the routes they travelled their exotic destinations & life on board. These paintings rich in imagination & atmosphere appeared on posters & postcards to advertise the companies & their ships; & so was born a whole genre that produced tens of thousands of images that form a wonderful record of the great era of the passenger liner. Here bought vividly to life in more than 500 colourful postcards are the ships in which so many of our predecessors sailed as emigrants soldiers or administrators in distant lands or simply as tourists. These cards
- now highly collectible
- show how the ships developed over the years & are also a fine tribute to the artists who painted them. A glossary of some 170 illustrators forms an important reference section in the book; the author also gives useful advice on collecting. This new paperback edition will be sought after by postcard collectors as well as liner enthusiasts & by all those with an interest in the vanished world of elegant travel on the finest ships of their day. An evocative story of the vanished world of elegant ships & leisurely travel.. .sumptuous. Western Morning News This is a really fabulous book. Ocean Liner Society

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NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europes most gorgeous cities. But the sights arent what draw him
- he sees each museum
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This is story of Loyal Blood a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. The odyssey begins on a freezing Vermont hillside in 1944 & propels Blood across the American West for forty years. Denied love & unable to settle he lives a hundred different lives: mining gold growing beans hunting fossils trapping prospecting for uranium & ranching. His only contact with his past is through a series of postcards he sends home
- not realising that in his absence disaster has befallen his family & their deep-rooted connection with the land has been severed with devastating consequences...' Postcards' was Annie Proulx's first novel which received huge acclaim & marked the launch of an outstanding literary career. Her works include short story collections ' Bad Dirt' ' Close Range' (featuring ' Brokeback Mountain') & novels such as ' The Shipping News' & ' Accordion Crimes'.
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This is a collection of 100 postcards each featuring a different & iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box. In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway station looking for a good book for the journey to London. His disappointment at the poor range of paperbacks on offer led him to found Penguin Books. The quality paperback had arrived. Declaring that 'good design is no more expensive than bad' Lane was adamant that his Penguin paperbacks should cost no more than a packet of cigarettes but that they should always look distinctive. Ever since then from their original
- now world-famous
- look featuring three bold horizontal stripes through many different stylish inventive & iconic cover designs Penguin's paperback jackets have been a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture. & whether they're for classics crime reference or prize-winning novels they still follow Allen Lane's original design mantra. Sometimes you definitely should judge a book by its cover.

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This is a unique collection of 100 postcards each featuring a different & iconic Puffin book cover. From picture books to paperbacks teen fiction to Puffin Classics" this is a selection from seventy years of outstanding British design & illustration in one sturdy little box." ...

When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale shes feeling like something on the bottom of someones shoe & not even someone interesting. Suzanne is in the harrowing & hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation trying to understand what happened to her life & how she managed to land in a drug hospital. Just as Fishers first film role-the precocious teenager in Shampoo-echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood. More of a fiction montage than a novel in the conventional sense this stunning literary debut chronicles Suzannes vivid excruciatingly funny experiences
- from the clinic to her coming to terms with life in the outside world. Conversations with her psychiatrist What worries me is what if this guy is really the one for me & I havent had enough therapy to be comfortable with having found him?; a high-concept eighties-style affair The only way to become intimate for me is repeated exposure. My route to intimacy is routine. I establish a pattern with somebody & then I notice when theyre not there? Sparked by Suzannes & Carrie Fishers deliciously wry sense of the absurd Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom & drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers
- & delights
- of all our addictions from money & success to sex & insecurity.


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The New Yorker" was launched in 1925 & offers reporting criticism essays fiction poetry humour & cartoons. From the very outset the founders Harold Ross & Jane Grant declared that their sophisticated magazine was not edited for the old lady in Dubuque. " The New Yorker" has also offered great literature in short stories from such acclaimed writers as John Cheever Roald Dahl Alice Munro Haruki Murakami Vladimir Nabokov J.D. Salinger & Shirley Jackson. From the very first issue the now iconic monocled dandy Eustace Tilley made " The New Yorkers" covers unique & pointed. These signature traits have continued right up to the present day in the striking & sometimes controversial covers from such artists as Peter Arno William Steig Saul Steinberg Jean-Jacques Sempe & Art Spiegelman. These covers were selected by Francoise Mouly." ...

It is a collection of 100 postcards each featuring a striking Vogue" cover. From early aspirational illustrations to modern celebrity photography this is a stunning selection of " Vogues" most dazzling images. Since its launch in 1892 " Vogue" has brought sophistication to its readers around the world. Early illustrations from artists including George Wolfe Plank Olive Tilton Pierre Brissaud & Eduardo Garcia Benito saw ethereal figures of fantasy develop into red-lipped flappers & as colour photographs began to appear the women transformed again: from Surrealist images by Horst P. Horst to women in the life of the moment captured by Irving Penn. From the fifties onwards " Vogue" women became more accessible still as models & stars like Elizabeth Taylor Goldie Hawn Cindy Crawford & Cher with their own distinct personalities appeared through the lenses of Richard Avedon & Snowdon. " Vogue" covers now are the epitome of style & beauty with such illustrious photographers as Mario Testino Annie Leibovitz Steven Klein & Patrick Demarchelier photographing stars like Lady Gaga Kirsten Dunst & Kate Moss celebrating female icons across modern culture." ...