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Since the death of her best friend Grace, twenty-six-year-old Eve has learned to keep everything and everyone at arm's length. Safe in her detachment, she scrapes along waiting tables and cleaning her shared flat in exchange for cheap rent, finding solace in her small routines.But when a chance encounter at work brings her past thundering into her present, Eve becomes consumed by painful memories of Grace. And soon her precariously maintained ...

When Cathy and Noah first got together neither saw children in their future. Eight years later, they're happily married -and Cathy isn't so sure.With Noah's tolerance for his wife's ambivalence waning, her widowed motherin a world of her ownand her best friend yearning for a second baby, Cathy feels increasingly adrift.Escaping into her work in the conservation studios of the National Gallery, she chips away at the layers of overpaint on a can...

A poignant second novel from the author of WET PAINT about the decisions that many women face - from whether or not they want to take up their chance to have children (naturally or otherwise), to what they choose to do about aging parents - and the impact these choices can have on their sense of self.

Eve ist Mitte zwanzig und schlägt sich mit Kellner- und Putzjobs durch. Seit dem Tod ihrer besten Freundin Grace hält sie alles und jeden auf Distanz. Ihr Leben entgleitet ihr immer mehr. Sie wird gefeuert, aus ihrer Wohnung geworfen und riskiert Max, den einzigen anständigen Mann in ihrem Leben, zu verlieren. Spontan nimmt sie eine Stelle als Aktmodell an einer Kunsthochschule an. Eve entblößt ihren Körper und verbirgt gleichzeitig das anwach...

London, United Kingdom

Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history by pairing 80 carefully curated artworks with infographic palettes. For these pieces, colour is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas), but the fundamental secret to their success.

Searingly incisive, darkly funny and achingly poignant, Wet Paint is a novel about attempting to navigate the world as a twenty-something woman, exploring the highs and lows of friendship, love and loss.

Since the death of her best friend Grace, twenty-six-year-old Eve has learned to keep everything and everyone at arm's length. Safe in her detachment, she scrapes along waiting tables and cleaning her shared flat in exchange for cheap rent, finding solace in her small routines.But when a chance encounter at work brings her past thundering into her present, Eve becomes consumed by painful memories of Grace. And soon her precariously maintained ...

Art writer Chloë Ashby talks you through the pieces that resonate with her, revealing the fascinating stories behind them and offering her considered take on why each work should be regarded as a pinnacle of artistic endeavour. With entries curated to offer a unique juxtaposition of styles, mediums and schools of art, expect a contemporary take on classic artworks, where titans of art history cross paths with under-appreciated examples from ou...