Paddington’s Twelve Days of Christmas – Michael Bond & Karen Jankel
£12.99Illustrated by R. W. Alley.
Illustrated by R. W. Alley.
Illustrated by Marc Boutavant.
Dylan Thomas’s vivid, affectionate portrait of youth – and the journey towards finding one’s own artistic voiceA boy grows up in a small Welsh town, moving through school, family life and first encounters with the wider world in moments of mischief and self-discovery. Along the way, a sensibility begins to take shape – playful, observant and alive to the strangeness of the everyday.
A gripping tale of passion based on the daily letters of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, detailing his affair with the much younger Venetia Stanley, as the country slides towards the First World War.
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Illustrated by Sarah Wilkins.
Richard Dadd (1817–1886) constructed fairytale worlds and other highly original works of art. After making his name as an exceptional student at the Royal Academy in the late 1830s, he travelled to the Eastern Mediterranean, where he developed a psychotic illness that led to the killing of his father. Dadd spent the rest of his life in London’s Bethlem Royal Hospital and then Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire, in both of which he was encouraged to paint.
Dadd’s output encompasses much more than the fairy paintings for which he is renowned. There are also highly detailed sketches evocative of his Eastern Mediterranean travels, remarkable characterisations of the human passions, and perceptive portraits of his doctors. Profusely illustrated throughout, this new account of his life and art by Nicholas Tromans and other leading scholars re-examines the legacy of one of the most fascinating figures in the visual arts of the Victorian era.