Art & Makeup

Photography and pop-culture buffs, get out your crayons and colored pencils! Martin Parr’s colorful and tongue-in-cheek photographs―his comedy of contemporary manners―have been transformed into a coloring book. Here is Parr’s affectionate and hilarious catalogue of human foibles―our bad fashion choices, messy foods, trashy souvenirs and the tourists who buy them, and all the often-overlooked silly […]

The Sunday Times bestseller *Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize* A New Statesman and SpectatorBook of the Year ‘This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food’ Kate Raworth From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity Farming is the world’s greatest cause of environmental […]

A lavishly illustrated revised edition of the ’70s cult book, updated by the author and with a bold new design and contemporary images. Before Franklin Foer, Bill Bryson, and Simon Kuper wrote about soccer, best-selling author and highly respected academic Desmond Morris became a director of a soccer club in order to properly analyze the […]

For the duration of his career, David Bowie kept away from scripts imposed by others, choosing, for better or for worse, to write his own story of his life. From the Sixties until his death in 2016, he created a series of fictional figures, imagining them in full, designing, and translating them on stage, giving […]

En människa som inte kan sluta sörja: Vad är det hon sörjer, egentligen? Alla de dödas död eller bara den egna oförmågan att leva? En orättvis värld eller en gammal barndom? En förälder eller en omöjlig kärlek? Vad ska hon göra med all sorg? Gå i terapi? Dröm, baby, dröm är dikter av det stoff […]

This book has been written in recognition of fashion’s huge potential to shift towards a circular economy and in homage to its creatives — passionate disruptors that are on the constant search for reinvention. At heart, this book aims to inspire fearless innovators committed to spearheading the future of fashion. It is for all of […]

I den självbiografiska klassikern Familjelexikon tecknar Natalia Ginzburg ett kärleksfullt och oförglömligt porträtt av sin italienska familj, genom en lika originell som humoristisk roman om språk och historieberättande. Fadern Giuseppe och modern Lidia – ständigt på kollisionskurs – fyller huset med vänner, böcker och politik, allt medan de fem barnen växer upp och Mussolinis skugga faller […]

Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall’s lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and […]