These diary extracts reveal the artistic perspective behind one of cinema's greatest authors. With notes covering all facets of Bresson's film-making theory, the collection expresses an appr... read more
Accompanies an exhibition at the RA about competing representations of empire, featuring fifty artists from Turner and Reynolds to Frank Bowling, Lubaina Himid and Kara Walker.
No two surviving copies of the First Folio are identical; of the original 750 only 200 survive. The British Library has five copies of which only one is complete. This is its facsimile. Clot... read more
An enormous and beautifully made book on the work of this extraordinary artist and set designer. Includes interviews with some of her collaborators, including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Benedict Cu... read more
This montage weaves together memories from Bergman's childhood and adulthood with all their subtle parallels. Film-like, dream-like and beautifully crafted, this self-portrait is startlingly... read more
It's un-British to doubt the Bard these days: historical truth and myth-making catch the light in this scintillating study of our attitudes towards our unifying national treasure.
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies was published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death. This is the story of John Heminges, Henry Cordell and others who comp... read more
Clark worked for several months as 3rd assistant on the film The Prince and the Showgirl that starred Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe - this is a reissue of his famously entertaining jou... read more
George Balanchine’s spanned the twentieth century. He was a choreographer who trained in Tsarist St Petersburg and reached the peak of his career in New York during the Cold War. This is m... read more
Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the great impresario's birth. The names of those he worked with, those great and fabulous beings like Goncharova, Stravinsky, Picasso, Fokine,... read more
Grant is a distinguished actor with a fine narrative voice in his memoir - Withnail of course is here, but also his 40-year marriage to Joan Washington, and his aching grief at her death in ... read more