Embroidered Botanicals: Beautiful Motifs That Explore Stitching with Wool, Cotton, and Metallic Threads

Yumiko Higuchi

Japanese artist Yumiko Higuchi is celebrated for her embroidery designs with a Scandinavian flair. The motifs and patterns she offers here are true to her trademark zakka style- simple and graphic yet softened with organic shapes and imagery drawn from nature. The result is embroidery that feels modern ...

No Spin: The autobiography of Shane Warne

Shane Warne, Mark Nicholas

In 1993 at Old Trafford, Manchester, a young blond leg-spinner bowled the ball that was heard around the world. In the years that followed, there were plenty of deliveries that all but matched it. Everyone knows the story, or thinks they do. The bowler who rewrote the record books. One of Wisden's five ...

Lost Masterpieces

DK

A compelling illustrated account of history's most important lost works of artDiscover the extraordinary stories behind the world's missing works of art.New, small-format impulse-buy books make the perfect self-purchase or gift. Travel back in time to discover works of art that have vanished from the re...