Item category 2: Arts & Literature

Review: Writing your life story is a valuable and worthy thing to do, regardless of whether the author's goal is publication or simply recording memories for the family. This book gives readers the tools they need to give their work quality and discipline. It focuses on helping anyone record thei...

Get started, get inspired, and get creating your own stunning collage artworks. The ultimate accessible artform, collage is truly for everyone. Stephanie Hartman, creator of Collage Club Ldn, takes you through all the basics you'll need to create your own works of collage. Learn how to find and c...

The perennial favourite material for beginner artists, watercolour can be a surprisingly tricky medium to get to grips with. In this essential guide, bestselling author and artist Harriet de Winton walks readers through all the essential materials, tools and techniques to get started with creatin...

When Benj Pasek and Justin Paul set out to write a pivotal song for Dear Evan Hansen, they tapped into their main character's loneliness. The result was 'You Will Be Found' a song that sets in motion a moment that goes viral in the world of the show. And then something happened in the world outsi...

For 5,000 years and more, libraries have been gathering and preserving writings of all kinds. They are keepers of the world's memory. They are storehouses of knowledge, and imagination, and fun. Learn about how these places and their collections of written words allow us to check our facts, find ...

Provides information about William Shakespeare's family life and work as a playwright and actor, summaries of his works, and details and challenges of staging Shakespearean productions. Includes a CD with performances from selected Shakespearean plays and sonnets by Britain's Royal Shakespeare C...

The poets here are Elizabeth Campbell, Bonny Cassidy, Sarah Holland-Batt, LK Holt, Graeme Miles, Simon West and Petra White. And the book is a celebration; large samples of poems from each. Generational groupings of poets usually form around common reading interests. This one shares an idea of de...

Anna Sabino is an artist, but certainly not a starving one. She wasn't born into a wealthy family, didn't inherit money from a distant relative, and doesn't have a rich husband. But she made it as an entrepreneur, as a single woman, and most importantly, as an artist.In Your Creative Career, she ...

Raucous, sensual and sublime: how twelve pioneering female artists rewrote the rules of pop. From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson to TLC and Taylor Swift, pop's greatest female pioneers are simply strange: smashing notions of taste and decorum, and replacing them with new ideals of p...

Buy me to support kids facing cancer, because laughter is the best medicine! Did you hear about the super-confident snail? It came out of its shell. How do shoes stay in touch with their friends? They're on Faceboot. Which Hogwarts wizard badly needs a haircut? Hairy Potter. Knock, knock...see wh...