This engaging account of erotic artist Aubrey Beardsley's nonconventional life illuminates his relationship with Oscar Wilde, discusses the ways in which he manipulated the media, and suggests that Beardsley was one of the world's first modern artists.
An account of the British Royal Family at work, at play, at home, at each other's throats - told with the honesty for which corgis are justly famous. It tells of Princess Di's eating habits, the Duke of Edinburgh's sporting prowess and Fergie's innate sense of modesty.
The first major life of the outstanding British painter (and possible Jack the Ripper) Walter Sickert (1860--1942), by the highly acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley. Walter Richard Sickert is perhaps the outstanding figure of British art during the last hundred years. Many contemporary painters, from Hodgkin and Bacon to Auerbach and Kossof ...
This title accompanies Channel 4's programme that reveals just how radically life has been transformed by a century of science and technology. This "living experiment" transports a family, with all their technological dependencies, back to 1900 to live for three months in a house restored to the exact specifications of the era. As the family ...
A humorous look at Europe in preparation for 1992 when Britain officially becomes part of the Continent. Much of the humour focuses on the differences between the British and the Europeans.
In six 30-minute programmes scheduled for transmission in autumn 2001 John McCarthy travels through the Holy Land to examine the validity or otherwise of stories from the Old Testament. Bringing in history, archaeology and new research, his intriguing journey is the subject of this thought-provoking tie-in which looks at: the truth behind Jericho ...
This title accompanies Channel 4's programme that reveals just how radically life has been transformed by a century of science and technology. This "living experiment" transports a family, with all their technological dependencies, back to 1900 to live for three months in a house restored to the exact specifications of the era. As the family ...
Tosca the cat knows she must find a quiet place, but no place is exactly right until her friend Roger, the big orange tomcat, tells her about a little-known hideaway. When Tosca finally settles down, readers will marvel at the secret she's been keeping. "Mortimer's expressive, perfectly rendered cats' eyes are unsurpassed. Sure appeal".--Kirkus ...
During his five years in captivity in Beirut, John McCarthy had very little reading material. But the one book he did have was the Bible, which he read from cover to cover--twice. He was particularly intrigued by the stories of the Old Testament. But how much of this 'history' is actually true? Returning to the Holy Land, John McCarthy visited ...
Sequel to "Tosca's Christmas", this story has Tosca, the cat, looking for a cosy place to take a nap. Inside the house the family are cleaning so Tosca goes outside and eventually with the help of her friend she finds the perfect spot. The author has also written "The English Cat at Home".
Oscar Wilde said "It is personalities, not principles, that move the Age". This was never more true than of the Decadent movement of the 1890s, which remains one of the most vivid periods of English culture. Wilde was its prophet, Dowson its poet, Symons its critic and Beerbohm its satirist. This book analyzes the movement through the eyes and ...
The incredible history of one of Britain's greatest palaces and the history of the monarchy that made it so. This is a comprehensive history of Hampton Court Palace from the time of Thomas Wolsey to the present day. The story of the palace is also the story of the many ups and downs of the monarchy itself. Re-designed, rebuilt, constantly altered ...
A collection of engaging cats and their engaged owners at home - in bachelor pads, grand houses, farmhouse kitchens, Oxford colleges, cathedral cloisters and Downing Street. Bishops and Burmese, painters and Persians, writers and Russian Blues; pampered cats, working cats, media cats, one-time strays, hunter cats and cats from Harrods all unite to ...
Tosca the cat doesn't like Christmas. She always seems to be in the way and no one ever remembers to give her a present. What Tosca wishes for more than anything is a Christmas present of her very own - but who could make her wish come true? When she sees a sleigh in the sky, her adventure begins!
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins (UK)
Date Published: 01/2005
ISBN-13:9780002570831ISBN:0002570831
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 768 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
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