Unicorn Publishing Group - Böcker

In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one container filled with nearly five million pieces of Lego, much of it sea themed. In the months that follow...

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Henri Matisse described the Chapel of the Rosary, the chief labour of his final years, as the 'gathering together' of his lifetime's work. Although widely known as 'Matisse's Chapel', the building's remarkable &a...

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In 1940, Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, both established artists with international reputations who had become disillusioned with the commercial aspects of the art world, moved to Benton End, overlooking the River Brett on the outskirts of ...

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Discovering painting at the age of 40, Sir Winston Churchill revelled in his new pastime. He went on to produce over 550 paintings, with over 130 of them on the French Riviera. The fellow artist and Riviera resident Paul Rafferty has tracked down ...

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May 11th 1941 - Berchtesgaden. The day after Rudolf Hess took off from Augsburg and hadn't yet returned or sent any signal, Adolf Hitler had to say something to justify Hess' so far unexplained disappearance. Not least for the benefit of...

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Who knew there was a breath for everything? Oliver James, a body-led therapist and growing presence in the world of breath and Breathwork, introduces us to twenty-one simple but extraordinarily effective breathing techniques that will, quite liter...

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In Art and Power the authors Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand-in-hand on forging new cultural policies and creating n...

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When fourteen-year-old Mary Hillier delivered a message to photographer Julia Margaret Camerons door, little did she know what her life would become Julia Margaret Cameron received her first camera as a gift when she was forty-eight but her love a...

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Faberge: The Twilight Years introduces an incredible album of rare drawings from Carl Faberge's leading workshop in St Petersburg that have come to light in the National Archive of Finland by pure chance. The album, stored unnoticed in the ar...

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The Order of Saint Patrick was instituted in 1783. This is the definitive history of the Order, setting it in context as a political, social, cultural and ceremonial constituent of viceregal Ireland. Also included: a survey of the 146 knights of t...

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Lacking accountability, Blaine Hamilton is sitting front and center on what seems like a never-ending rollercoaster, as poor judgment results in a sudden move from East St. Louis. Relocating to Chicago, there was anticipation for a lifestyle chang...

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As a person who never seemed to have life evolve in her favor, Renee Foxjoy spent years feeling undeserving of positive outcomes and opportunities. Ready to throw in the towel on love and a substantial career, her fate changes when she meets the c...

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The stability of one's future relies on the foundation in which it was built upon.   Timothy Mottle's premeditated plot to murder Javier and Blaine is shattered into pieces when his father, Robert James, exposes his plan to the local police d...

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Brussels can claim to be the Art Nouveau capital of Europe. This is the first comprehensive guide in English to individual buildings in eleven main areas of the city. For those wishing to devise their own tours and visits, there are specially-draw...

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The Dance takes the form of a book; an exhibition and selection of journal drawings, paintings and murals. The book provides an insight into the cryptic and the detailed, often very personal, artwork that David produces while on his travels. For S...

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Holkham Hall is a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Palladian architecture set in a large walled park bordered by the marshes and dunes of the North Norfolk coast. Built, owned and occupied by the Coke family since 1612, it is at the centre of a m...

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Philipp Rudolf Humm is a German/Belgian artist living in London. Humm started out to become an artist, yet got rejected by the Berlin Akademie. After completing a BA in Philosophy in Germany and an MBA at the IMD in Switzerland, Humm went on to ha...

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The Cadogan Estate in Chelsea is one of the few remaining ancient family estates in London, covering one of the capitals most dynamic, thriving and fashionable districts. The foundations of the Cadogan Estate were established in 1717 when Charles,...

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Thomas Gainsborough (1727 88) was the prominent English portrait and landscape painter, in the second half of the eighteenth century, who went on to become one of the founding members of the Royal Academy. He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youn...

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Eric Gill (1882 1940) was an English sculptor, stonemason, typographer and printmaker; a controversial figure whose fascination with erotica and sex were at odds with his deep religious beliefs. He spent his formative years in Brighton and Chiches...

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Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned today by their descendants. Until now, it has been relatively l...

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An exhibition which celebrates 80 years of conservation work by the Georgian Group. The exhibition aims to transport the visitor into a world of craftsmanship, beauty and design. Gathering together an eclectic selection of traditional Georgian cra...

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After 1918, post-war euphoria spread across Europe and America. Technology was changing the pace of life and aeroplanes, motorcars and ocean liners were making the world a smaller place with improved communications. Some were making their fortunes...

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John Rothenstein, son of Sir William Rothenstein, the celebrated portrait painter, was born in 1901, four years after the Tate Gallery had been founded as the national gallery of British art. When Rothenstein took over as its fifth director in 193...

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The books will showcase the best paintings and sculptures of the period and present rarely seen gems from provincial museums and museums of former Soviet republics. Each book opens with an expert article on the subject. Images are organised in chr...

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Originally written and illustrated by Enid Marx in 1943, The Pigeon Ace tells the tale of Coo-coo a brave pigeon called to serve during the war as a homing pigeon with his new wife Flutter-flutter. Coo-coo tackles sharply clawed cats and an immens...

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A remarkable figure of British politics between the late Victorian and interwar years, Lord Lansdowne was among the last hereditary aristocrats to wield power by birth. Over the course of a distinguished fifty year career he served as Governor-Gen...

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In this two-volume, slip-cased box set, Rena Lavery sets out her vision for complete wellbeing both dietary and physically. With over 200 family recipes, Rena explains what keeps her energised and how she maintains a healthy weight whilst producin...

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Roger Bamber, for fifty years one of Britains leading photojournalists, has poured his lifes work into this unique reflection of a career that encompassed not only riots and bombings and the crazy world of rock and pop in the twentieth century but...

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The year 2023 sees the 150th anniversary of the death of William Harry Rogers. Rogers was one of the finest artist-designers of the Victorian period in Britain, someone to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen Jones and ...

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