This beautiful and absorbing book explores the remarkable collection of 'Professional Yorkshireman' W.A. Ismay MBE (1910-2001), the UK's most prolific collector of post-war British studio pottery.0This book offers fresh perspectives on a marginalized area of British modernism. Tracing the collection's journey from private to public ownership illuminates issues surrounding the acquisition by a museum of a large personal collection and archive, revealing the transformative effect it has had on both curatorial practice and the ambition of regional public institutions. The W.A. Ismay Collection offers a well-documented example of the valuable contribution collectors can make to the British studio ceramics movement.0The publication of this research marks 20 years since the W.A. Ismay Collection moved from private to public ownership and to celebrate that anniversary, an exhibition of the collection will take place at York Art Gallery's Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA).00Exhibition: York Art Gallery's Centre of Ceramic Art, York, UK / York Art Gallery, York, UK (opens 15.10.2021)
Helen Walsh Books
Helen Walsh crafts narratives that delve into the raw realities of social exclusion and the intricate tapestry of human connection. Her writing offers a sharp, authentic lens through which to view characters navigating hardship, marked by a profound understanding of their struggles. With a voice that is both unflinching and empathetic, she brings to light the complexities of lives often on the margins. Her debut work signals a powerful literary talent poised to engage and provoke.







Meet the Fitzgeralds - they will open your eyes and capture your heart
Brass
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
• Upon its release in the United Kingdom, British Vogue said “if you want to find out what it is like to be a woman in England today [read] Brass.” Literary circles, critics, students, and readers of all stripes are talking about Brass for its raw, unrelenting, yet compassionate and utterly compelling portrait of Millie, a promising college kid drifting into a deceptively inviting world of rough hewn street culture, drug-induced adorations, and sexual hedonism. Helen Walsh, at the age of 27, has produced a staggeringly alive debut novel that portrays a generation of youth—those coming of age in the 80s and 90s—through the prism of Millie. Millie and her best friend Jamie have been through it all together. However, as Millie is lured away from a promising academic career toward a life of numbing drugs and increasingly deviant sexual encounters, Jamie is finally settling down with his girlfriend. Millie feels betrayed by one of the few authentic and nurturing relationships in her life at a pivotal time of self-revelation.
Pull Focus
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Jane's partner goes missing just as she's promoted to Director of Toronto International Film Festival. Now, not only does she need to find out if he's in danger, but she must contend with festival politics: Hollywood power brokers, Russian oil speculators, Chinese propagandists, and a board chair who seemingly has it out for her.
The Lemon Grove
- 275 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Helen Walsh's THE LEMON GROVE is a tense, sensuous story of a marriage ripped apart by desire and obsession, set in the Mallorcan summer holiday resort of Deia. Perfect for readers who loved APPLE TREE YARD, it is soon to be a major film.Each summer, Jenn and her husband Greg return to Deia, on Mallorca's dramatic west coast. This year the arrival of Emma, Jenn's stepdaughter, and her new boyfriend Nathan threatens to upset their equilibrium. Beautiful and reckless, Nathan stirs something unexpected in Jenn. As she is increasingly seduced by Nathan's youth and the promise of passion, the line between desire and obsession begins to blur. What follows is a highly-charged liaison that puts lives and relationships in jeopardy. For Jenn, after this summer, nothing can ever be the same.
As she drinks in the view in front of her, Rachel Massey stands on the cusp of the biggest journey of her life. For Rachel is about to become a mother. Mere hours from now, her first baby will be here and she can't wait to meet it. Terrified and excited, there is nothing she wants more, yet she senses things will never be the same again. This is the story of Rachel's voyage into motherhood. Full of the same hopes and dreams as any parent-to-be, she soon realises that nothing about this new world is as she imagined. As the raw shock of sleep deprivation takes its toll on her and the truth begins to blur with the unreal, Rachel becomes consumed by one sole desire - to sleep. But how far will she go to get her baby to sleep? Devastatingly honest and shockingly painful at times, Go To Sleep is a heart-wrenching story about one woman and her newborn child. It strips motherhood bare in the most unforgettable of ways.
„Ich will schlafen!“ ist ein mutiges und notwendiges Werk, das die Geschichte einer modernen, alleinerziehenden Mutter erzählt, deren Traum von der Mutterschaft zum Albtraum wird. Rachel steht vor der größten Herausforderung ihres Lebens: der Geburt ihres Sohnes Joseph. Voller Vorfreude auf die Veränderungen, die das Muttersein mit sich bringt, sieht sie sich nach der Geburt jedoch mit einem massiven Schlafmangel konfrontiert. Ihr Sohn schläft kaum, und Rachel findet selbst keine Ruhe. Trotz ihrer tiefen Liebe zu Joseph gerät sie an den Rand des Wahnsinns. Die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Fiktion beginnen zu verschwimmen, und sie fragt sich, wie weit sie bereit ist zu gehen, um ihn zum Schlafen zu bringen. Helen Walsh gilt als eine der faszinierendsten Autorinnen Großbritanniens, die mit ihrem Werk das heutige Leben mutig und eindringlich einfängt. „Ich will schlafen!“ ist eine fesselnde Mischung aus roher Emotion und tiefem Mitgefühl. Es geht nicht nur um Schrecken oder Einsamkeit, sondern um das Leben selbst. Die Darstellung von Geburt und Mutterschaft ist so rührend und realistisch wie nie zuvor. Ein grandioses Buch, das die Herausforderungen und die Schönheit des Mutterseins auf eindringliche Weise beleuchtet.
Schlaf endlich ein!
Roman (Hardcover Titel "Ich will schlafen!")
»So rührend, knallhart und realistisch ist über Geburt und Mutterschaft noch nie geschrieben worden. Ein grandioses Buch.« Charlotte Roche Rachel steht vor dem größten Abenteuer ihres Lebens: Sie wird zum ersten Mal Mutter. Sie wünscht sich das Kind aus tiefstem Herzen und freut sich auf diese einschneidende Veränderung in ihrem Leben. Doch nach der Geburt ihres Sohnes Joseph scheint nichts zu sein, wie sie es sich vorgestellt hat. Der Grund: Schlafmangel, massiver Schlafmangel. Ihr Sohn scheint nie zu schlafen, schlimmer aber ist, dass sie keine Ruhe findet. Trotz überwältigender Liebesgefühle für ihr Kind gerät Rachel an den Rand des Wahnsinns. Stets vollkommen übernächtigt, verschwimmen teilweise die Grenzen von Realität und Fiktion, und es stellt sich die Frage, wie weit sie zu gehen bereit ist, um ihren kleinen Sohn in den Schlaf zu bekommen.


