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<!-- Hewitt -->{{Frontpage[[image:Hewitt_Renoir.jpg|leftisbn=0957181167|linktitle=httpsBlue Skies and Boat Trips://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782738?ieThe Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=UTF8&tagAlan Marshall|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode5|genre=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782738]]Art|summary===[[Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of Suzanne Valadon pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by Catherine Hewitt]]=== [[image:4the work of Brian Lewis.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, [[:Category:Art|Art]]I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wanted.}}Deep in the rural parts of France in the 1860s{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and not just a movement at read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled thatmore accurately – this one was, but a full generation of both creative and societal changeis, black and white and red. And if you were to expect that someoneYes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, they would like as not be male. But almost stumbling into and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the hedonistic culture influence of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadonsome striking visual ideas. She started in the circus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what she did have from that was |isbn=1913547183}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary=''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the poise first person to be an appealing model for some seriously important painterswalk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and a adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty , and figure to appeal to both them and their audiences. And what she also had, much to the surprise its literary consequences, changed our view of many and the distaste of some, was artistic talent world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of her own… [[Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine HewittGeorge Engleheart|Full Review]]author=John Webley<br>|rating=4.5|genre=Art<!-- Murakami -->[[image:Murakami_Music.jpg|left|link|summary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784700142?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784700142]] ===[[Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and Seiji Ozawa]]===subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hewitt_Renoir[[image:3.5star.jpg|linktitle=CategoryRenoir's Dancer:{{{The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon|author=Catherine Hewitt|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art=4.5|genre=Art]] Murakami loves music|summary=Deep in the rural parts of France in the 1860s, any reader of his could tell you as much. Norwegian Wood was named after would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a Beatles song (albeit one full artistic period – and not very well known) and After Dark is framed by just a music soundtrack in movement at that, but a brilliant display full generation of atmospheric settingboth creative and societal change. With this all And if you were to expect that love is here. And someone, they would like all who have a good taste in music, Murakami's is eclectic and very well consideredas not be male. I found myself looking up musicians after reading this because I found many of his opinions quite convincingBut almost stumbling into the hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. [[Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa|Full Review]]<br> <!She started in the circus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-- Ravilious -->[[image:Ravilious_Recentlived.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1908524936?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1908524936]] ===[[The Recent Past by James Ravilious]]=== [[image:5starBut what she did have from that was the poise to be an appealing model for some seriously important painters and a natural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and their audiences.jpg|link=Category:{{{ratingAnd what she also had, much to the surprise of many and the distaste of some, was artistic talent of her own…}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art{{Frontpage|Art]]isbn=Murakami_Music|title=Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji OzawaJames|author=Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa|rating=3.5|genre=Art|summary=Murakami loves music, son any reader of the war artist Eric Ravilious, inherited his father's artistic talentshis could tell you as much. Although he Norwegian Wood was named after a gifted painter, his main career was to be as Beatles song (albeit one not very well known) and After Dark is framed by a photographer.|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Wood -->[[image:Wood_Gothicmusic soundtrack in a brilliant display of atmospheric setting.jpg|left|link=https://wwwWith this, all that love is here.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1419725335?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1419725335]] ===[[American Gothic: The Life And like all who have a good taste in music, Murakami's is eclectic and very well considered. I found myself looking up musicians after reading this because I found many of Grant Wood by Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald]]his opinions quite convincing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ravilious_Recent|title=The Recent Past|author=James Ravilious|rating=5|genre=Art[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ChildrenJames, son of the war artist Eric Ravilious, inherited his father's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]]artistic talents. Although he was a gifted painter, [[:Category:Confident Readershis main career was to be as a photographer.}}{{Frontpage|Confident Readers]], [[isbn=Wood_Gothic|title=American Gothic:Category:ArtThe Life of Grant Wood|Art]]author=Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald|rating=4.5|genre=Art|summary=Who won a national prize for a crayon drawing of three oak leaves before he was properly in his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist and came to Europe to study from the greats, only to reject all they had to offer? Who instinctively knew a picture of his dentist (yes, his dentist) would be more appealing and say more to people than floating water lilies and frilly ballet dancers? The answer in all cases was Grant Wood, practically the most well-known painter in America at one time, and still the best, alongside Edward Hopper, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappings. [[American Gothic: The Life of Grant Wood by Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]<br> <!-- isbn=V&A -->A_Patchwork[[image|title=Patchwork and Quilting:V&A_Patchwork.jpgA Maker's Guide|leftauthor=Victoria and Albert Museum|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0500293260?ie5|genre=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0500293260]]Art|summary===[[Patchwork and Quiltingis a magical craft: A Maker's Guide by Victoria you can take relatively small pieces of material and Albert Museum]]=== [[image:4turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crafts|Crafts]]Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and you have something more than magical, [[:Category:Art|Art]] Patchwork occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is a magical craftto read ''Patchwork and Quilting: you can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a topper A Maker's Guide'' which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and a backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the two crafts and you have something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfyingV&A collections. But where to start, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to read }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Rutherford_Landscape|title=Landscape Gardens|author=Sarah Rutherford|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=My first experience of a ''big'Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' which looks - garden was Versailles as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo a teenager and whilst I was impressed, I didn't really like it. I felt stifled and then delivers fifteen projects inspired strangely underwhelmed by the V&A collectionsflatness of it all. [[Patchwork As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and Quiltingit was official: A Maker's Guide by Victoria and Albert Museum|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Rutherford -->[[image:Rutherford_LandscapeI was off big gardens. It would be many years before I revised my opinion.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon On a trip to Harewood House, it was too hot a day to be corralled into the house, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightful.co.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]] ===[[Landscape Gardens by I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hour. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford]]=== [[image:4star's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context.jpg}}{{Frontpage|linkisbn=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ArtBarrie_Peter|Art]]title=Peter Pan and Wendy|author=J M Barrie and Robert IngpenMy first experience of a |rating=4|genre=Art|summary=It''big'' garden was Versailles as s a teenager childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John and Michael Darling and whilst I was impressedtheir beloved nurse, I didn't really like itNana the Newfoundland dog who took them to school each day. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by It's George Darling, their father, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the flatness of it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court yard and it was official: I was off big gardensthe children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip There's a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the boy who never wants to Harewood House it was too hot a day to be corralled into grow up, Tinkerbell, the houserather unpleasant fairy, so I wandered the gardens Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the lost boys and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then - of course - Wendy, but then it wouldn't have been a cricket match at Stowe gave me classic since the opportunity to walk original stage production in 1904 and the grounds for over an hournovel of 1911 if it were otherwise. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context. [[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Barrie -->[[image:Barrie_Peter.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786750856?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1786750856]] ===[[Peter Pan and Wendy by J M Barrie and Robert Ingpen]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Art|Art]] It's a childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, Nana the Newfoundland dog who took them to school each day. It's George Darling, their father, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the yard and the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. There's a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the boy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, the rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the lost boys and - of course - Wendy, but then it wouldn't have been a classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel of 1911 if it were otherwise. [[Peter Pan and Wendy by J M Barrie and Robert Ingpen}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grahame_Wind|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewtitle=The Wind in The Willows

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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jenkins_100|title=Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations

|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=In the mid -twentieth century , the railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first -century oil is giving way to electricity. It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024197898X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hurst_Norfolk|title=On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks

|title=On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|rating=54|genre=SportArt|summary=It was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive , we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and found a display of the most gorgeous pictures. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095444003X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Blackburn_Threads|title=Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske

|title=Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyArt|summary=John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of fishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He was born in Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to sink into a stupourstupor, sometimes for years at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the available surfaces in his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099582198</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Manton, Phyllis Bray and David BuckmanTitania

|author=Jo Manton, Phyllis Bray and David Buckman |rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersArt|summary=''Equus'', ''Waiting for Godot'' and ''A Mid-summer Night's Dream'' – three very distinctive plays, and my favourite three, out of which you won't often get me choosing just one. But were I to do so, it might actually be the last, for the simple reason that I would delight in playing any and all characters from it. Yes, I know Hermia and Helena look a bit implausible now – but I put it to you stranger things happen on stage… Some of the strangest things involve a player himself, a lowly actor who gets given an ass's head and is forced to be the enamoured of a fairy queen. It's this section of the play that this book concentrates on, in quite stunning form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184365329X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=BM_Origami|title=Origami, Poems and Pictures

|genre=CraftsArt|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>}}'{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Foreman_Travel|title=Travels With My Sketchbook

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Biesty Trains|title=Stephen Biesty's Trains

|summary=Pitching up at an auction Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and picking up a lost masterpiece for a pittance is the dream for most art lovers. That seemingly happy circumstance happened upwards) want to bookseller John Snare at a sale in 1845 and is know what lies beneath the centrepiece to Laura Cumming's excellent ''The Vanishing Man – In Pursuit of Velazquez''skin which you can see. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587041</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Siri Hustvedt|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society |summary= I must confess that ''A Woman Looking'' spoke They want to me on a profound, intimate levelknow how it works. This is in part due Getting to the apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists who love art and also love science in a world which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusive. What Hustvedt suggests grips with one in ''A Woman Looking'' is that it real life is the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and that quite a cohesivebig ask, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill but the gaps in both disciplines. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Prendergast|title=Dog on a Digger: The Tricky Incident|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Inext best thing is 'm going to tell you a story about Dog, Man, Lady and the Pup. They all work on an industrial site - in fact Dog and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives the sort of digger which is dreamed about by boys large and small. Lady and the Pup run the snack bar and one day as they're all having something to eat, the Pup goes missing. Man and Lady search everywhere but itStephen Biesty's DogTrains''s sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in a branch features trains from all over a fast-flowing stream. And it's Dog who works out how to rescue him. I needed 88 words to tell you that story, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a single one - the world and she tells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646148</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Will Jones|title= How spanning the early steam train (complete with cowcatcher) right through to Read New York: A Crash Course in Big Apple Architecture|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary=New York is home to some of the most iconic and instantly-recognisable pieces trains of architecture in the world. The city is future which can reach a mishmash speed of architectural styles, a place where Classical 430 kph and Colonial meet Renaissance and Modernistdon't even run on rails. The result is a glorious fusion that works perfectly and upon closer inspection has Once the train reaches a plethora speed of secrets just waiting to be revealed. Welcome to New York...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404104</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=@dogsofinstagram|title=Dogs on Instagram|rating=3.5|genre=Pets|summary=I'm a sucker for dogs: I can't walk past one in 150 kph the street without stopping wheels are raised and having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak to the owners, so a book of pictures of dogs was going to be right train is held up my street. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and launched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs. Originally I had ''no'' intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn't even intending to read the book, just to have a quick flick through, but within five minutes I was showing other people in the office the picture of the Weimaraner riding a bicyclemagnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452151970</amazonuk>