You may have seen something similar to this on YouTube, and thought it was a new invention. The Chinese choreographer Zhang Jigang certainly seems to have appropriated credit for it. In fact, it’s a very old dance, and it comes from the arrival of [...]
The interweb threw up three interesting takes on bookselling today, and the serendipity seems to justify a short post. We’re just back from BEA – the American book industry’s biggest annual get-together – and I am happy to say that all of the types [...]
Last week, you might recall, I posted the first in what will become a series of missives on some of our backlist books, on Gina McKinnon’s 500 Essential Cult Books and Donald “Richard Stark” Westlake’s terse crime novel The Hunter, which features in Gina’s [...]
Alan Moore—the subject of Gary Spencer Millidge’s Alan Moore: Storyteller —guest starred on Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle TV show on BBC2 last night. You can view it again here. Moore appears at around 19:30 in and is part of a 3 minute mockumentry about [...]
Including the work of some of the greatest names in the industry, like Perou & Rankin, Chris Gatcum’s new book – Light & Shoot 50 Fashion Photos – is in stores now, revealing how to light and shoot fashion photographs to create any effect [...]
For all you avian enthusiasts out there, our Bird Photography Field Guide has just received a rave review from Jonathan Wylie at Brighthub.com! David Tipling is a world-reknowned and award-winning wildlife photographer with more than forty books on how to photograph wildlife under his belt. [...]
The first press copies of Alan Moore: Storyteller have been sent out and it’s really nice to see that other people share our love for this title. Over at Down the Tubes Comics, their review kicks off with “simply stunning” and then, erm, gets [...]
A spectacular sunset is a magnet for photographers. Here are a few tips from Michael Freeman which will help you capture something really memorable next time the sun goes down… And if sunsets are your bag, it’s something that The Shutter Sisters have touched [...]
Natalie Dybisz, or Miss Aniela, author of our exciting new book on Self-Portrait Photography, has attracted the attention of Vogue magazine’s Italian arm, with a number of works shown in their Photo Vogue section. For any photographer, it’s undeniably an exciting name to be [...]
As I mentioned in this post yesterday, on Richard Stark’s The Hunter, as featured in 500 Essential Cult Books, all this week on my non-Ilex books blog Existential Ennui I’ve been blogging about the ’60s science fiction short stories written by Donald E. Westlake [...]
Thus far on this brand spanking new blog we’ve been telling you about some of the exciting new books we’ve published recently. But as well as continuing to keep you updated on new releases, we’ll also be looking back at some of our older [...]
Our very own Stephanie Roberts, Shutter Sister extraordinaire, author of The Art of iPhoneography and co-author of Expressive Photography, has been featured in May’s issue of Digital Photography Magazine, talking about how the iPhone is the perfect photographic tool for taking striking on-the-spot images. [...]
