home bestsellers sale books special offers search our
catalogue
download catalogues
Specialist art and craft book publishers If you do not want to order online, please ring 01892 510850
Order Books
Materials
Request Catalogue
US customers click here
Trade Customers
How to Submit your Book ideas

IPA 2011

Independent Publishers Awards winner - Specialist Consumer Publisher 2011


Craft Business Awards 2009/2010 Winner

Best Craft Book Publisher


IPA 2010

Independent Publishers Awards Winner - Innovation of the Year: Ready to Paint Series


2009 Craft Awards Winner!

Best New Craft Book: Joanna Sheen's World of Cards

Your Basket

Contains 0 items
Total: £0.00
(including special offers and delivery)

View Basket

Quick Search

 

Recently Published

Search Press Latest Releases

Gift Vouchers

Click here to buy Search Press Gift Vouchers



Author of the Month


Sue Stratford

Sue Stratford owns and runs The Knitting Hut, a yarn and needle supplier, and she finds the yarns she stocks there and her customers a constant source of inspiration....
Read more...


Sue McBride

Sue McBride was born in the Yemen and was educated in the UK before training as a nurse. She has knitted from a very young age, and has had a...
Read more...


Elaine Hamer

Elaine Hamer (Hill) is a professional illustrator and has worked on a variety of publications, including cookery and children's titles. She uses pencil, gouache and watercolour to create beautiful stylized,...
Read more...


Hazel Everett
Hazel Everett first became interested in embroidery whilst still at school, and her teacher suggested she might pursue a career in embroidery. Hazel went on to be an Apprentice...
Read more...


Di Van Niekerk

Di Van Niekerk began with needlecraft at a very young age and has always been fascinated by colour and texture. She makes her own range of silk and organza...
Read more...


Marrianne Mercer

Marrianne (Maz) Mercer studied at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University to gain a degree in Graphic Design and Advertising in 2005. From there she moved back to Kent to start her...
Read more...


Marc Potts

Marc Potts is a fantasy artist and folklorist, whose visionary art has received wide acclaim through the exposure of his work on book covers, both fiction and non-fiction, and...
Read more...


Janet Whittle

Janet Whittle is a professional artist and qualified teacher who specialises in flowers and landscapes in watercolour and pastel. She exhibits regularly at the Westminster Galleries in London, and...
Read more...


Jenny Keal

Jenny Keal was born in Southampton and lived for most of her life in the New Forest. She was interested in art from childhood and continued to paint as...
Read more...


Lisa Slatter

Lisa Slatter lives with her family in Buckinghamshire, UK. She is the Deputy Head of the Knightsbridge PME School of Cake Decorating in Enfield. Lisa is a City &...
Read more...


Keith Fenwick

Keith Fenwick FRSA, B.Tech (Hons), BWS, CIGA is one of the UK's leading landscape painters.  He is a professional artist, multi company demonstrator, author of many best-selling books and has...
Read more...


Gwen Scott

Gwen lives in Nottingham with her husband and two daughters. She did a degree in Printed Surface Pattern and then worked as a designer and illustrator for major greetings...
Read more...


Janet Edmonds

Janet Edmonds trained at East Berkshire College, Windsor and The University of Hertfordshire, completing a BA (Hons) in Art and Design in 1998. She has many years experience of...
Read more...


Val Pierce

Val Pierce's passion for knitting began at the age of five. Later in life she began home knitting for yarn manufacturers, and since then she has made a huge range of...
Read more...


Jean Haines
Well known for her enthusiasm and passion for art, Jean Haines covers a wide range of subjects in a loose and interpretive style. In the 1990s she studied Chinese...
Read more...


Fiona McDonald
Fiona McDonald studied classical painting and drawing at The Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, Australia from 1985 to 1989. After moving to the Blue Mountains, she began developing...
Read more...


Jan Messent

Jan Messent qualified as a teacher in the mid-50s and, after teaching Art, History and English, became deeply involved with embroidery as an art form.  As a member of the Embroiderers'...
Read more...


Stuart Littlejohn
Stuart Littlejohn graduated with a BA (hons) in Art from Exeter College of Art and Design. He still lives in Devon, where he works as a painter, illustrator and teacher. Specialising...
Read more...


Emily Blades

Emily Blades' parents main interests were arts, crafts and literature, and like many creative people, educated their daughter at home. Art galleries, Craft Council exhibitions and the freedom to pursue whatever...
Read more...


Susie Johns

Susie Johns is an experienced crafter, specialising in knitting, papercrafts and embroidery. She contributes regularly to a number of craft magazines and is the author of a range of books. She...
Read more...


Frances McNaughton

Frances McNaughton demonstrates sugar fairies and making sugarcraft flowers the soft way, and provides workshops to branches of the British Sugarcraft Guild, National Sugarart Association and other sugarcraft clubs.

She...
Read more...


Dani Humberstone

Dani trained as a fashion designer in Brighton and developed an award-winning design business, before working in graphic design and book illustration for a number of varied clients, including nightclubs, magazines, offices...
Read more...


Ann Cox
First and foremost, Ann Cox is a silk ribbon embroidery designer who runs her own company selling silk ribbons and kits. She teaches at colleges of further education, takes classes in...
Read more...


Leonie Pujol
Leonie started her career as a creative designer making models using polymer clay which she sold at craft fairs and by mail order. She published her first book Artist Trading Cards in November...
Read more...


Suzen Millodot
Suzen Millodot has always loved arts and crafts. She is an accomplished artist, having taught batik for many years in Canada, Hong Kong and Wales. She first developed a  fascination for...
Read more...


Paul Bryn Davies
Paul Bryn Davies has worked as a professional artist and illustrator all his working life. In addition to producing countless magazine illustrations, Paul has worked as an advertising illustrator,...
Read more...


Billy Showell
Billy Showell graduated from St Martins School of Art with a B.A. in fashion design, but was irresistably drawn to painting and illustration. Since 1993 she set course for a career...
Read more...


Alison Holt
Alison Holt studied Fine Art, Textiles and Embroidery at Goldsmiths College, London where she experimented with many textile techniques before choosing machine embroidery as a medium. She started to explore her...
Read more...


Arnold Lowrey
Arnold Lowrey has been painting in a variety of media for over twenty-five years. His motivation has been the use of light in painting, but he now experiments more...
Read more...


Judy Balchin

Judy Balchin studied art at Cardiff College of Art, and then specialised for three years in graphic design at Kent Institute of Art and Design.

She spent two years at the BBC...
Read more...


Terry Harrison

Terry Harrison became interested in art early on, attending Art School at the age of sixteen. His studies led to a career in graphics, then he became an illustrator, developing his...
Read more...


Geoff Kersey
Geoff Kersey is an experienced watercolourist and is much in demand as a teacher and demonstrator. He lives and works in Derbyshire where he has a studio, and he exhibits extensively....
Read more...


Joanna Sheen

Joanna Sheen's passion for crafts has been a life-long affair. She started Joanna Sheen Ltd in 1979 and has been immersed in various crafts ever since. Joanna has written over 30 books...
Read more...


Wendy Tait

Wendy Tait lives in Derbyshire and studied at the Joseph Wright School of Art. She produces designs for publication as greetings cards and has also written articles and illustrations for specialist...
Read more...


Michelle Powell

Michelle Powell studied design and display at Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology before going on to train as a teacher at Bath College of Higher Education. Previously editor of Practical...
Read more...



Home | About Us | Contact Us | How To Find Us | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Delivery | Returns | Book Erratus
Twitter
Loader
Loading..
Follow Us