A paperback edition of "English Harbours and Coastal Villages" takes the reader around the country's coastline. Photographs and text focus on the sights and features that best represent each region: the Cornish pilchard huer's tower, the Dorset coves and the wharves of Humberside's docklands.
Virginia Woolf, Forster, Rupert Brooke, Carrington and L.P. Hartley - and the story of the places that inspired them. From their childhood paradises to country retreats in Sussex, Jane Brown describes the symbolic importance of the English landscape when it blends with the creative imagination.
Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII perished in fire in 1698, yet has remained the definitive image of the English monarch, through a number of derivations down to modern cinematic portrayals. Written to accompany an exhibition at the National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside (UK) and prompted by