Low-Flying Balloons

MIKE GOWER

In this the first collection of his poetry to be published Mike Gower explores themes close to his heart: the natural world, some pain and much pleasure, love, absurdities, great writing, the richness and unlikeliness of life and the joy of grandchildren. Mike's poems are by terms thoughtful and comical, profound and streetwise. He recalls the just- married poverty of a home-made bed and laments the loss of his lettuces to slugs. He struggles to teach restless children, finds joy in the sound of a wingbeat and is transfixed by the intricacies of nature. These are poems written to be read aloud and savoured.

Softback, £8.99. Order your copy at mikehbgower@btinternet.com or at your local bookshop.

This new title follows the sold-out success of Unbuilt Bath, exploring a never-to-be-built Cambridge of brutalist ziggurats, gothic towers, a sinuous snake and crystalline library – all of them to remain a paper fiction but here brought to life with intelligence and wit by two of our best-informed architectural writers

Unbuilt Cambridge

TIM MOWL JULIAN ORBACH

Beautifully illustrated, softback £20.00 Order your copy at: unbuiltcambridge@gmail.com or at your local bookshop.

NEW TITLE

Fred Kormis

Sculpting the Twentieth Century

BARBARA WARNOCK (ed)

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition 'Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century', at the Wiener Holocaust Library, 2024-25. It contains expert assessments of the sculptor’s extraordinary life, work and legacy.

Echoes from the Cave

a 50 year love affair with Greece

RICHARD DEVEREUX

An extended love poem to Greece and its people: first love, Alexander, Cavafy, and the beauty of the landscape.

Available from the Great British Bookshop or from your local booksellers.

Privileged Horses The Italian Renaissance Court Stable

Sarah G Duncan

Tim Pomeroy

Nicholas Usherwood David Bell

Winter River David Whitwell

Marking Time: Poetry and Thought During the Pandemic David Cook

In this pioneering study of equine culture Sarah Duncan takes us to the great Renaissance courts, their magnificent stables populated by monarchs, princes and magnates, and a quasi-religious community of grooms, trainers, saddlers, bit-makers, virtuosi in equine health and even astrologers. So beautifully designed and so much color. This is wonderful. Sheila ffolliott Vice Chair Medici Archive Project

288 pages softback superbly illustrated ISBN 9781916095366 £30.00

Recently published

Forgotten for almost 200 years, a new biography by Cathryn Spence charts the varied career of this most gifted of Rococo artists, Thomas Robins.

Robins made delicate watercolours of gardens caught at that moment in the mid 18th century when sinuous layouts glittered with garden buildings of every conceivable style — chinoiserie tea houses, Gothic summer-houses, Turkish tents and Classical temples — the so-called ‘Rococo Gardens’. His views are matchless records of gardens either long gone or now in decay. Without them, we would know next to nothing about this short-lived period of garden history.

312 pages hardback, superbly illustrated ISBN 9781838472634 £40.00

Working in marble, granite, sandstone and wood, Tim Pomeroy’s beautifully carved and polished work is a paean to sacred forms and natural wonders. It’s a measure too of his unflinching determination to learn and master the skills needed. His font for St Andrew’s Cathedral comes from learning the stonemason’s craft and, like the fountain for Provand’s Lordship in Glasgow, is distinctly his in form and thought: fresh ideas laid on timeless beauty.

112 pages hardback superbly illustrated ISBN 9781838472641 £30.00

Convoy KMF-5 Dr AD Chissel

the greatest (and little-known rescue) in the history of naval warfare, a compelling and meticulous account from diaries, interviews and official papers. ISBN_9781838472658

Tanks on the Lawn Colin Tagg

a mapmaker's adventures in a troubled world ISBN_9781838472665

Nature's Favourite Child: Thomas Robins and the Art of the Georgian Garden Cathryn Spence