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  • Original price was: £ 1.200.Current price is: £ 1.095.

    Price:£12.00 - £10.95
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    “I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design I’ve followed most of them at some point but it took me a lifetime as an artist to find what worked. They are the generous, loving, enthusiastic, bullshit-free advice of a master communicator, just reading them makes me want to charge back into the studio” – Grayson Perry

    “Being an artist is a lonely pursuit – twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the rest of your life. Most of the time it hurts. This book will help the pain” – Tracey Emin

    “Joy is palpable in these pages. We need such thinking right now” – Apollo Magazine

    *One of Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2020 Quarantine Book Recommendations*

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    As the witty and passionate chief art critic for New York magazine, Jerry Saltz is often approached by artists, both amateur and professional, asking him for advice: How do I get started? How do I get better? Is what I’m doing even art at all? They want to know, in short, how to be an artist.

    Now, expanding on his viral cover story for New York magazine – and drawing on his decades of immersion in the art world – Saltz has the answers. How to Be An Artist is an indispensable book of practical inspiration for creative people of all kinds. Brimming with dozens of brand new rules, prompts, exercises, and tips designed to break through creative blocks, ignite motivation, and conquer bad habits, this book is designed to help artists of all kinds – painters, photographers, writers, performers – realize their dreams.

    Includes such advice as:
    – Make art for now, not the future
    – No, you don’t need graduate school
    – Recognize convention, and resist constraint
    – Get lost
    – Listen to the wildest voices in your head
    – Know what you hate (it’s probably you)
    – Finish the damn thing!
    – How to recover from critical injuries


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    Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ilex Press; 1st edition (17 Mar. 2020)
    Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 178157782X
    ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1781577820
    Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 1.5 x 19 cm

    Price:£20.00
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    Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hemlock Press (8 May 2025)
    Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008595798
    ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008595791
    Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.9 x 2.8 x 24 cm

    Original price was: £ 1.699.Current price is: £ 1.419.


    Price:£16.99 - £14.19
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    THE BOOKSHOP WOMAN IS A LOVE STORY, A LOVE STORY ABOUT BOOKS…>

    ‘An irresistible treat for all bibliophiles’ WATERSTONES

    Nanako Hanada’s life has hit rock bottom. Separated from her husband, she’s living between 4-hour capsule hostels and pokey internet cafes in Tokyo. Work is going no better as sales at her eccentric bookstore dwindle. Reading is the only thing keeping her alive.

    That’s until Nanako downloads an app called Perfect Strangers which offers 30 minutes with someone you’ll never see again. Introducing herself as a sexy bookseller, she recommends strangers ‘the book that will change their life’. In the ensuing year, Nanako meets hundreds of people, some of whom want more than just a book…

    THE BOOKSHOP WOMAN offers a glimpse into the quirky side of Tokyo in this story about the beauty of free diving into a book and resurfacing on the last page, ready to breathe a different kind of air…

    READERS LOVE IT:
    ‘This fits the healing fiction genre, but it’s even better’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
    ‘A beautiful ode to the power of books’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

    AND BOOKSELLERS LOVE IT TOO:
    ‘If you like books, you will love this one’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
    ‘This was SO GOOD’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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    Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brazen; 1st edition (6 Jun. 2024)
    Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1914240774
    ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1914240775
    Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.8 x 2.6 x 21.6 cm

    Price: £0.99
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    ​***PRE-ORDER DAWNLANDS, THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM PHILIPPA GREGORY, OUT SOON IN PAPERBACK***

    England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .

    Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament.  The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. 

    Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband.  Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.

    Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.

    THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR
     
    Praise for Philippa Gregory:
     
    ‘Popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and superbly told’ The Times

    ‘Philippa Gregory is truly the mistress of the historical novel. It would be hard to make history more entertaining, lively or engaging’ Sunday Express

    ‘Gregory has popularised Tudor history perhaps more than any other living fiction writer . . . All of her books feature strong, complex women, doing their best to improve their lives in worlds dominated by men’ Sunday Times

    ‘Immaculate research, pacy narratives and a stubborn insistence that history is not only about men . . . a powerful reminder of how precarious the lives of the Tudor women could be’ Daily Mail

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    ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07KWBYH6W
    Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster UK (20 Aug. 2019)
    Language ‏ : ‎ English
    File size ‏ : ‎ 1973 KB
    Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
    Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    Print length ‏ : ‎ 461 pages