The treatment of light and shadow is one of the building blocks of drawing. From techniques such as reserves, and highlights to material selection and the creation of translucent tracing paper, to the use of light as a medium for viewing artworks, ar...

This collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose, apart from explaining the Meaning of Life. In an firework-display of 31-syllable sparkles, probably set off by accident, it lights up any corner of things done, thought, felt, seen, suffered & enjoy...

A sequel to Philip Terry's "Dante's Inferno" (2014), where Dante relocates to the University of Essex, here the action shifts from Dante's Island of Purgatory to Mersea Island, in Essex still. Dante's Virgil is substituted with Ted Berrigan as guide....

This tragi-comic, or comi-tragic grief journal blends loss and low vision into poems that issue in startling joy. "Emotional Support Horse" tracks the course of a lived bereavement intensified by sight loss and eco-stress. But wit is not only an elem...

A guide to making movies at home with whatever equipment you have, learning the basics of cinematographic and storytelling techniques. Filmmaking, we are told in the introduction, is the "reverse engineering of dreams... a spell that brings dreams a...

A major new publication looking at the rich history of photographic practice by Black female and non-binary artists from the late 19th century to the present day. For decades, women have been overlooked in the cultural history of photography, especi...

For sale in CIS only! Popular participation is one of the hallmarks of modern politics. So why have democracy and democratic norms generally failed to take root in the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia? This book explores trad...

For sale in CIS only! How Russia's post-Soviet economy, engineered to stagnate, explains its conflict with Ukraine and divisions across Eurasia. "Fortress Russia" evokes a Kremlin standing strong against the West. But Moscow's ceaseless quest for...

For sale in CIS only! Explores Boko Haram's resilience, local support and economic networks, and its roots in a pre-colonial political order among the Kanuri people of Lake Chad. This book presents a nuanced picture of the origins, rise, transforma...

Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award 2022 One of Brittle Paper's 50 Most Notable African Books of 2021 An epic tale narrated through the eyes of three women. Makhosi battles inner turmoil, unable to express her anger to her mother, Duduzi...