Remarkable Birds Mark Avery
We share the earth with more than 10,000 species of birds, so here is your chance to find out everything you didn't know about the avian world: a fascinating compendium showcasing the extraordinary wonders of birds, illuminated with exquisite ornithological illustrations, prints, and drawings.
I am Brian Wilson : a memoir Brian Wilson
Good Vibrations : My Life as a Beach Boy Mike Love
I'm showing my age by vividly remember going to the Beach Boys at QEII. These two excellent memoirs tell the story of the Beach Boys from opposite perspective. According to the Rolling Stone, both of these books are a must and sure to be good argument-starters.
Footnotes trom the world's greatest bookstores Bob Eckstein
A collection of seventy-five of the most cherished bookstores from around the world featuring evocative paintings by Eckstein and paired with colourful anecdotes about each shop. Each store has is quirks, charms and legendary stories with legendary patrons.
Celebrate Everything Darcy Miller
Just in time for the Christmas bash, Celebrate Everything is bursting with advice, inspiration, ideas, crafty projects, and recipes. Darcy Miller, the founder and editorial director of Martha Stewart Weddings—and one of the world’s most influential celebrations experts—provides the ultimate compilation of party ideas and resource lists to help people plan their parties from beginning to end. Personally it all looks a bit much for me, but I enjoy looking at the pictures and fantasizing that I could ever find the energy to create such gatherings!
The Secret Lives of Colour Kassia St Clair
If you love colour and you love history then this could be the ideal book. Take the colour Dutch Orange for example...
The House of Orange are proof that personal branding isn't new. In portrait after portrait, its members are gilded in shades of orange.
Then there is shocking pink as described by Elsa Schiaparelli
The colour flashed in front of my eyes ... Bright, impossible, impudent, becoming, life giving, like all the lights and the birds and the fish in the world together, a colour of China and Peru but not the West - a shocking colour, pure and undiluted.
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