Claire’s Christmas Guide
Selected by the Bookshop
From the publisher:
A dazzling, soul-stirring journey through the lost and endangered crafts that shaped Britain from multi-award-winning historian and broadcaster James FoxBritain was once a craft land. For generations what we made with our hands shaped our…
Recommended by Claire
Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge was home to Jim and Helen Ede and their art collection. This book is a walk through that collection and includes writing and letters between Jim and his artist friends such as Barbara Hepworth, David Jones, Ben and Winifred Nicholson and Joan Miro. Divine.
Recommended by Claire
More Moomins! These strips are somehow very of their time and also remarkably fresh AND cute and daft AND ALSO full of sharp social commentary – I love spending time in Moominvalley (and would give it 5 stars on Tripadvisor if I was allowed to).
From the publisher:
Two friends meet in an art gallery after decades of silence. The idealism that once bound them together fissured and fractured under the weight of collective and personal griefs.Through their memories of youthful certainty, the antagonism…
Recommended by Claire
The Pot Book is finally back in print! This is a gorgeous survey of ceramics over 30,000 years, curated by Edmund de Waal, full of texture, colour, technique and history.
From the publisher:
Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects…
From the publisher:
A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to explore a part of her own history,…
From the publisher:
She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King that the…
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