The Collins Gem series is being relaunched in Spring 2004 & this new title features a new internal design & a strong new cover design. Packed full of tips for the aspiring watercolourist its handy format makes it absolutely ideal for quick reference either in the studio or out in the field. Contents include: * essential tips on all the basic watercolour techniques plus helpful advice on sketching & drawing * guidelines on painting skies backgrounds foregrounds the main subject trees details & shadows * clear & straightforward step-by-step instructions for painting a complete landscape in 7 easy stages * tips on painting water in various forms & adding people to a painting ...

This title teaches the 70 favourite painting techniques of one of the most revered watercolour teachers of all time the late Zoltan Szabo. It uses basic supplies to achieve a variety of special effects in landscape painting such as wispy clouds falling snow jagged rocks trees & surf. Readers will also learn the characteristics of different kinds of watercolour pigments & how they behave on paper. It features 43 mini demonstrations to show how to achieve the techniques & 13 full step demonstrations to show how to apply them. ...

Readers who want to learn to paint trees & woodlands but can not rely on their drawing skills have everything they need in this book. No drawing skills are required. The outlines of five paintings (plus one bonus picture) are provided to pull out from the centre of the book. Clear instructions & step-by-step photographs show how to transfer the outlines on to watercolour paper & then how to capture the beauty of trees in striking watercolour paintings. Geoff shows how to paint a bluebell wood a snow scene an Autumn woodland a pair of ancient oaks & a willow leaning over a boat. Learn how to capture the beauty of trees in watercolour. This title

Features: five easy to follow demonstrations; step-by-step photographs & clear instructions; & six reusable tracings to pull out.

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Do you eat next to nothing & exercise for hours every week but find it impossible to lose weight? Do your friends seem to eat what they like but if you so much as look at a cake you pile on the pounds? If so your problem may not be too much fat but too much fluid. THE WATERFALL DIET is a revolution in dieting. Linda Lazarides reveals that many women who are trying to lose weight (40% of the female population) would lose weight more effectively if they controlled fluid retention. Linda shows you how to easily identify if fluid retention is your problem & help you to safely lose a stone in seven days. This revised & updated edition focuses more attention to the health benefits of dealing with water retention which is a major cause of high blood pressure as well as overweight. It is also more practical as the author proves a 7-day menu plan & provides clearer instructions on how to follow the diet. The new edition will also include a section on water retention in pregnancy & testimonials & feedback from followers of THE WATERFAL DIET. ...

' Perfectly controlled superbly written. Waterland is original compelling & narration of the highest order' Guardian In the years since its first publication in 1983 Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentieth-century British literature: a visionary tale of England's Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of history; & a family story startling in its detail & universal in its reach. This edition

Includes:: an introduction by the author written to celebrate the book's 25th anniversary. ' Graham Swift has mapped his Waterland like a new Wessex. He appropriates the Fens as Moby Dick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors. This is a beautiful serious & intelligent novel admirably ambitious & original' Observer 'A 300-page tour de force.. .A burst of exuberant fictive energy' Evening Standard ' Waterland is a formidably intelligent book animated by an impressive angry pity at what human creatures are capable of doing to one another in the name of love & need. The most powerful novel I have read for some time' New York Review of Books

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WATERLOO ARCHIVE VOLUME IV contains letters & journals written largely in the immediate aftermath of the whirlwind campaign of 1815 both from the frontline troops & the support services including medical reports & those of civilians. This volume
Includes::rnrn Letters by Sir Hussey Vivian & a much fuller version of the famous description by Frederick Ponsonby of his wounding & his subsequent adventures whilst lying on the battlefield during & after the battle. rnrn The correspondence of officers in the infantry such as John Gardiner & George Barlow of the 69th Foot & Daniel Mackinnon famous for the defence of Hougoumont.rnrn Representing the cavalry we have Captain John Whale Lifeguards who appears to have written the opening circumstantial narrative of A Near Observer for Miss Eaton & George Packe of the 13th Light Dragoons & those who were not on the field during the battle such as Arthur Kennedy of the 18th Hussars & Dixon Denham of the 54th Foot. rnrn A series of letters to Sir Charles Bell from various surgeons attending to the wounded in Brussels give both a fascinating & appalling view of the consequences of war.rnrn A fascinating description from a witness of Napoleon onboard HMS Bellerophon at Plymouth including an original drawing of him before he sailed into exile on St Helena & a journal of a marine officer during the subsequent passage.
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Volume III of the remarkable Waterloo Archive series is brimming with personal letters & private journals written by participants in the campaign. By reading them we can share the innermost thoughts of those involved in the fighting experience the agonies of those who lost someone & see the pain & suffering inflicted on the thousands of wounded. The horrors of war are laid bare but so also is the relief & happiness of survival. This fascinating collection

Includes:: the poignant final letters from men who lost their lives that day; an account by a civilian visitor to the area six weeks after the battle end; & a very interesting letter by Second Lieutenant Richard Cocks Eyre of the 2nd Battalion 95th Rifles which makes a mockery of the myth that British troops did not openly plunder the local farmhouses before the battle for food & fuel to burn. Each letter has something new to say; in fact they prove beyond doubt that our accepted history of the battle & campaign is wrong in many aspects & a complete rewrite of certain episodes will eventually be required. This is an extremely important new book expertly researched & edited & essential reading for anyone interested in the Waterloo campaign.

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Much of the material available to readers in the English language interested in the exploits of the troops of Hanover Brunswick & Nassau is in the form of dry official reports which stick to the basic facts & avoid all sentimentality & emotion. However unbeknown to virtually anyone in the English speaking world interested in the more human aspects of these 'foreign' troops fighting alongside the British at Waterloo there are a number of memoirs & sets of letters which have been published in Germany over the last two centuries. Until now these had never been translated into English & so have been inaccessible to the vast majority. This volume seeks to put this right & to bring to life the human story of these German troops
- their trials & tribulations their sufferings & their emotions
- & to finally reveal their views on the battle which many entered with mixed emotions. Highlights include an account of the confusion in the final 'great advance' at Waterloo; eyewitness recollections of the defence of La Haye Sainte; rare battle reports by the Duke of Wellington; & a fascinating series of letters explaining the whereabouts of a number of 'missing' Hanoverian regimental & staff surgeons & subsequent court martials.

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While many books have been published on Waterloo none have rivalled this in either scale or authority. The text based on Adkins fastidious research including many days spent on the battlefield itself does far more than simply narrate the events of 18 June 1815. The author provides as much analysis as he does description: plans are examined commanders assessed & manoeuvres painstakingly related to the ground. Armies weapons & tactics are comprehensively explored & evaluated. As with Adkins companions to the battles of Trafalgar & Gettysburg the text focuses on myths & controversies surrounding the events as well as elements often neglected in other narrative accounts -such as the performance of the French Grand Battery or the Prussian attacks on Plancenoit. Divided into ten sections The Waterloo Companion can be dipped into as a reference guide or read cover to cover. Featuring little-known information & first-hand accounts of those who fought at Waterloo it also covers soldier & command structures tactics & topographical details. Each section is put in context of the battle & enhanced by maps plans drawings & diagrams. The Waterloo Companion is an absolute must-have for any historian hoping to further their understanding of one of the worlds most famous land battles. ...

Leanne Shapton author of Important Artifacts & Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan & Harold Morris & Swimming Studies creates an authorly & artistic response to travel work & being a passenger
- part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. Leanne Shapton has updated the stream of consciousness method of Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway to give us the appearance & thoughts of different passengers
- about work sex family what they are reading.. . Thus you eavesdrop on a hubbub: all that mental life going on secretly all the time". (Evening Standard). " Authors include the masterly John Lanchester the children of Kids Company comic John OFarrell & social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical the personal to the societal they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon & notice its nature & its people. Read individually theyre delightful small reads pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city". (Evening Standard). " Exquisitely diverse". The Times Eclectic & broad-minded.. .beautifully designed". (Tom Cox Observer). "A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles & themes. The design qualities are excellent as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look & feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books". (A Common Reader blog). " The contrasts & transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves.. .A multidimensional literary jigsaw". (Londonist). A series of short sharp city-based vignettes
- some personal some political & some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected full of wit & just the right amount of grit". (Fabric Magazine). A collection of beautiful books Grazia Leanne Shapton is an artist illustrator & writer who was born in Toronto & lives in New York. She is the author of Important Artifacts & Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan & Harold Morris Including Books Street Fashion & Jewelry. Her latest book Swimming Studies is published July 2012."


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