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Venture into Roz's wild world in this gorgeously illustrated picture book that brings to full colour the adventures of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel THE WILD ROBOT - now a DreamWorks major motion picture starring Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal...

Explore the domain of the Pumpkin King in this stunning papercraft display by world-renowned pop-up book creator Matthew Reinhart. Then scream with delight as the scene magically transforms into the joyful holiday world of Santa Claus.You are cordially...

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Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel-it is, in a sense, the author's own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals.Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friend-perhaps real,...

In I Love New York, David Drebin transports us to a dream world where every moment is filled with romance and passion. This book brings together everything that makes New York so special: the vibrant atmosphere, the passionate encounters and the endless...

In her paintings, the Swiss artist Regula Syz (b. 1946) opens up a space for contradiction. They depict blossoming life, but also foreboding and destruction. To this end, the artist works with elementary manifestations of the life cycle, which she links...

Erling Viksjo's buildings challenge our notions about what constitutes good architecture. His extensive use of concrete, modules and repetitive shapes has caused many to describe him as Norway's foremost Brutalist architect. Viksjo also went furthest in...

The close relationship between Edvard Munch and the National Gallery of Oslo, today part of the National Museum, is a subject well worthy of a detailed publication. The first Munch painting acquired by the museum was Night in Nice, purchased in 1891...

"Colour orgies [...] slung up on the walls." This was just one of many caustic remarks aimed at Thorvald Hellesen's first - and last - exhibition in Norway, held in 1919. He would never again exhibit in his native country, where he was gradually...

Explosive technological development and several global crises have left their mark on society in recent decades. What impact do such upheavals have on architects and the way they work? With contributions from Sam Jakob, Helen Runting, Max Creasy, Joakim...

If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the answer is "yes." Over the last ten decades, poets working in...

The Things We Leave Behind gathers poems from all five of Josephine Balmer's acclaimed volumes, excavating a common ground between the distant past and our contemporary world. From the universal grief that echoes down through the centuries in both her...

Kerry James Marshall: The Histories is the most extensive publication on the artist to date, celebrating half a century of his work. It reveals the complex ways in which he has transformed histories of Western painting, centering Black bodies in...

Christian Krohg was a key figure in the Norwegian art community of the 1880s and 1890s, and was strongly influenced by the ideology of realism. In his view, art should have meaning for a broad segment of the population, not merely serve as wall...

From a Goodreads Choice and Stoker Award (R) winning author, Succession meets The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry in this taut, fast-paced tale of sibling betrayal as the three heirs - the golden boy, the ferocious middle sister, the...

The book deals with Norwegian artist Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-1987) and her paintings from the period 1950-1975. She left behind an exceptional collection of works and had a career that stands out in Norwegian art history. This book brings together...

Carroll Dunham. Grafikk / prints 1985-2022 is published on the occasion of a generous donation to The National Museum from the American artist Carroll Dunham (b. 1949). The entire gift, consisting of 161 prints, is presented in this publication. The book...

Frida the woman. Frida the artist. Frida the icon. Fragile and indomitable, she made herself a work of art, celebrating the beauty of imperfection. Hers was an existence made of passion, revolution, brightly coloured clothes, and paintings that mirrored...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784232498Author Elin MeekPage Count 8Imprint Dref WenPublisher Dref WenDimensions(mm) 150mm * 150mm * 20mm

Refusing to be content with a single form of expression or confined by a single artistic movement, the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) explored a variety of styles and techniques that few artists can rival. Works from her entire...

In March of 2008, The National Museum - Architecture opened at Bankplassen 3 in Oslo with an exhibition on Sverre Fehn. He is the architect behind the renovation of Grosch's bank building from the 1800s and the new museum pavilion. Fehn was also active...

Hardly another name is better known in Norwegian art history than that of Hans Gude. He is usually referred to together with Adolph Tidemand, as the two artists are inextricably linked through their famous collaborative project Bridal Procession on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916392373Author Sue WicksteadFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint JayJayBooksPublisher JayJayBooks

Graeme Macrae Burnet’s propulsive, Booker-shortlisted contemporary classic – reissued to mark its tenth anniversary. The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784232504Author Elin MeekPage Count 8Imprint Dref WenPublisher Dref WenDimensions(mm) 180mm * 180mm * 15mm

The heartwarming tale of a plucky young heroine determined to put her life on the line for her family. Preorder the BRAND NEW saga novel from Lynette Rees now!With no one to rely on, she must make an unthinkable choice...Mari Evans has always known life...

The rise of Black cultural nationalism in the 1960s came with resounding promises of assertive new methods to achieve Black liberation in America, especially through art. Nowhere were these efforts more impactful or lasting than in the Black theatres...

Since the nineteenth century, Catholics have believed that the Jesuit martyrs of the Mohawk Valley were put to death at a Mohawk village where the great shrine to them now stands at Auriesville, New York. Catholics have also believed that St. Catherine...

In 1967, on the night of the first Apollo mission, a child named Izzy is orphaned when the doomsday cult she was born into clashes with the sheriff in the high desert of New Mexico. She's taken in by a struggling rancher who is trying to keep his mind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506748405Author Rick BarbaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Kinoshita Keisuke was once thought of as the equal in importance and popularity to his colleague Ozu Yasujiro and friend Kurosawa Akira. In many ways, he was even more popular with audiences than they were, as well as being a critical favorite. He had...

The first collected volume of work on cult film director and icon John Waters, which offers a comprehensive study of his work as an important filmmaker and cultural force. Includes chapters covering important themes in Waters's work, stylistic...

Diogo Santiago is a celebrated Mozambican poet and intellectual, a well-known professor at the university in his country's capital. In 2019, on the eve of a cyclone that will devastate the East African coast, he returns to his hometown of Beira to...

This is the story behind one of the most important - yet largely forgotten - women in American theater during the early 20th century.Rachel Crothers was renowned for her ability to command all aspects of a stage production-unusual for playwrights and...

For decades, cinema audiences have turned to the film reviews featured in national and local newspapers, listened to commentators via radio, television and, latterly, the internet, and read fan magazines to learn about the latest releases. These critics...

Goodbye mind-numbing business classes, hello hunky Italian men... When Juliet Evans scores a job as a nanny in Italy, she's ready for a year of excitement and glamour. She is not ready for a diabolical six-year-old who swears like a pirate and hurls...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558613485Author Amara MoiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

AWARD-WINNING POET * AUTHOR OF ELEVEN POETRY COLLECTIONS FORMER POET LAUREATE OF NEW ZEALAND David Eggleton explores the voices of New Zealand, Australia, and Polynesia in his latest collection, LIFTING THE ISLAND"This is vital, elastic, expertly...

Everyone should feel safe dancing however they want! Nevaeh is nervous-tomorrow is the first dance-off in Ms. Tharrington's class. It's supposed to boost the students' energy for the rest of the week, but a dance contest isn't Nevaeh's idea of a good...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774880074Author Cale AtkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Tundra BooksPublisher Tundra Books