The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards - Tom Gauld

The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards - Tom GauldTom Gauld has created countless iconic strips for the Guardian over the course of his illustrious career. A master of condensing grand, highbrow themes into panel comics, his weekly strips embody his trademark sense of humour while simultaneously opening comics to an audience unfamiliar with the artistry that cartooning has to offer. Funny but serious, these comics allow Gauld to put his impressive knowledge of history, literature and pop culture on

Beginning with the Restoration of Charles II in 1660

Or else the summer of her lifetime will become the last summer of her life

and his determined yet inexperienced wife

It’s a nostalgic simple pleasure

With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and colour photography throughout

the value of female friendship and the ability to love again – against all odds – Elsa’s incredible journey is a story of survival

dust away the dander

Fully illustrated throughout and told from the

This striking colored pencil set from legendary architect Michael Graves’s firm contains twenty-four colored pencils in his richly sophisticated palette

who's that stomping grumpily towards them

a place to squirrel away your favourite foraging locations - and to jot down the recipes you create from them

Room on the Broom is another smash hit from the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler