Waterstones The Glassmaker

Zoom

×

Price: £20.00

Brand: Waterstones

Description: Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to control. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect to be accepted by men. But perfection may take a lifetime. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola as she hones her craft through war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss. Her creations will adorn the necks of empresses and courtesans from Paris to Vienna – but will she ever earn the respect of those closest to her? Tracy Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is vivid, inventive, spellbinding: a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as their glass.

Category: Books

Merchant: Waterstones

Product ID: 9780008153861

Delivery cost: 2.99

ISBN: 9780008153861

My website utilises affiliate links when you click my 'Get the best deal now' buttons. If you buy something through one of these links, I may earn a little commission, at no extra cost to you.

I have relationships with many of the top online retailers (purchasing, shipping and returns will be handled directly by them) which enables me to offer the best deal online for the Waterstones The Glassmaker and many other similar products - which will appear below, to enhance your online shopping experience.

For even more great deals on Waterstones Books, click the link.

Similar Products

• 

  Lovereading The Glassmaker's Daughter

  Price: £8.09

  Brand: Lovereading

   

  Description

  Description: The Glassmaker's Daughter. Paperback /softback. By Catherine Cookson.

  Product details

  Category: Books

   

  

  Merchant: LoveReading

  Product ID: 9780552175968

   
• 

  The Borough Press The Glassmaker, Hardback, Tracy Chevalier

  Price: £20.00

  Brand: The Borough Press

   

  Description

  Description: FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING. The Borough Press The Glassmaker, Hardback, Tracy Chevalier - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk

  Product details

  Category: Books

  Delivery cost: Spend £20 and get free shipping

  Dimensions: 159x240mm

  ISBN: 9780008153861

   

  

  Merchant: Harper Collins

  Product ID: 9780008153861

   
• 

  Waterstones Josef Albers

  Price: £24.95

  Brand: Waterstones

   

  Description

  Description: While Josef Albers' Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments in the interaction of colour. Yet he did not begin these pictures until he was in his sixties, already several decades into his career as an artist, maker and theorist, much of it pursued in the United States following the Nazi dissolution of the Bauhaus in 1933. Misunderstanding of the Homages reflects a wider misreading of Albers' life and work. Married to the textile artist Anni Albers, his papers include letters from fellow artists John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra and Eva Hesse; colleagues such as Buckminster Fuller and Philip Johnson; and fans and collectors ranging from the composer Virgil Thomson to the cartoonist Saul Steinberg. If his network of influence was surprisingly wide, so, too, were his interests. Albers started life at the Bauhaus as a glassmaker, ran their renowned wallpaper workshop, and designed furniture that is still in production eighty years later. He pioneered the study of colour at Black Mountain College, organized its famed 'Summer Sessions' with guest tutors from Willem de Kooning to Merce Cunningham, and went on to head the design department at Yale. Drawing on extensive unpublished writings, documents and illustrations, Darwent offers a broad view of not only the artistic and political currents, but also the friendships and rivalries that formed the backdrop to Albers' creative output.

  Product details

  Category: Books

  Delivery cost: 2.99

  ISBN: 9780500519103

   

  

  Merchant: Waterstones

  Product ID: 9780500519103

   
• 

  Waterstones The Balloon Thief

  Price: £7.99

  Brand: Waterstones

   

  Description

  Description: Exclusive Edition with sprayed edge. A Standard Edition is available here. The year's must-read YA fantasy - ancient djinn, an epic adventure, and one girl's courage to seek her own destiny. Burn the flame. Seek the night. For Khadija, the only escape from her father's arranged betrothal is the sky. When she spots a rogue hot air balloon fighting against its ropes, she leaps at the chance for adventure. Khadija soon finds an unlikely ally in a poor glassmaker's apprentice, Jacob. But Jacob is a hari, and Khadija a Ghadaean. The hari are oppressed and restless - their infamous terrorist group, the Hareef, have a new fearsome leader. And the ruling Ghadaeans are brutal in their repression. Soon, a deadly revolution threatens their friendship and their world. The Hareef use forbidden magic, summoning jinn - wicked spirits made of fire - to enact their revenge, forcing Jacob and Khadija to choose what kind of a world they want to save. A commercial, thrilling and uplifting fantasy adventure following sixteen-year-old Khadija, who flees her home in a stolen hot air balloon to escape an arranged marriage The debut novel from enthralling new talent, twenty-four-year-old Aneesa Marufu, which draws on the author's South Asian heritage. Explores racism, misogyny and discrimination in a highly original fantasy universe perfect for fans of Noughts & Crosses, We Hunt the Flame and Rebel of the Sands. Waterstones The Balloon Thief - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk

  Product details

  Category: Books

  Delivery cost: 2.99

  ISBN: 9781915026156

   

  

  Merchant: Waterstones

  Product ID: 9781915026156