Creation: Art Since the Beginning - John-Paul Stonard

Creation: Art Since the Beginning - John-Paul StonardSome fifty thousand years ago, on an island in modern day Indonesia, an early human used red ochre pigment to capture the likeness of a native pig on a limestone cave wall. Around the same time, across the globe in Europe, another human retrieved a lump of charcoal from an old fire and sketched four galloping horses. It was like a light turning on in the human mind. Our instinct to produce images in response to nature allowed the earliest Homo sapiens

you are transported back in time

From the bestselling Irish author of The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club comes an emotional and uplifting festive story about love

and as Ichi is taught to read and write she develops a voice that refuses to be dampened by the brothel's rigid hierarchy

Determined to do her bit for the war effort and to avenge her brother

and I'm going to show you how simply and clearly you can beat anxiety and change your life

the birth was brilliant and your healthy baby arrived on schedule

the Chinese coast and Formosa

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he can reflect on what life truly means

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