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James Rebanks interweaves thoughts and reflections on the art of shepherding with his photographs of the Matterdale valley and the people and animals that make up the daily life of the fells. A document of the lives lived by the 30 surviving fell farming families, this is a book of photos and words filled with reverence and love.
When his widowed father – once a high court judge and always a formidable figure – drifted into vagueness if not dementia, Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship. An entertaining reflection on families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity, ‘Kid Gloves’ is also necessarily a book about the writer himself and the implausible, long-delayed moment when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation.
In ‘It’, her first book, the global fashion-trendsetter Alexa Chung shares her inspirations, musings and her own very personal and eclectic style.With influences that range from Jane Birkin to Mick Jagger, Alexa Chung is a unique fashion icon. A truly one-off collection of Alexa’s personal writings, drawings and photographs, ‘It’ covers everything from her thoughts on life, love and music to her favourite looks and how to decide what to wear in the morning. With wit, charm and a refreshingly down-to-earth attitude, this is a must-have for anyone who loves fashion, music and just about everything Alexa Chung.
Once there was a little tree and she loved a little boy. So begins a story of unforgettable perception, written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation.
Shel Silverstein wrote ‘A Boy named Sue’ for Johnny Cash but is known throughout the USA as a poet who writes like a hybrid of Spike Milligan and Edward Lear. His poems have amused American children for many years. The poems in this anthology only make sense if you’re open to thinking outside the ‘box’.
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