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This wonderful childrens’ book is based on a problem that was solved in the 13th century by the mathematician Fibonacci, but as Gravett points out on the back, ‘it is NOT (I repeat NOT) a book about maths. It is a book about rabbits……lots and lots of rabbits!’ Laid out as a calendar (complete with holes for hanging), this is a riotous book about the multiplication of rabbits, starting with one lonely bunny in Fibonacci’s Field. It features Gravett’s own illustrations and clever paper engineering, and is packed with cross-genre references and jokes, making it just as much fun for adults as for kids.

When Andrew Hope’s magician grandfather dies, he leaves his house and field-of-care to his grandson who spent much of his childhood there. Andrew has some strange memories of the place….the inedibly large vegetables his grandfather used to store on the roof of the shed which had always mysteriously disappeared by morning, the eccentric staff and the stained glass window in the kitchen door, which had to be protected at all costs. When the orphan Aidan Gain turns up asking for safety, a strong connection develops between the two boys and a mystery grows… An internationally renowned writer of fantasy for children, Wynne Jones has produced another superbly crafted and suspenseful book.

Contains over 100 illustrations on the lithographs, woodcuts, etchings and linocuts of Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Sybil Andrews, Lill Tschudi and Cyril Power – British artists in which the KempTown Bookshop has a particular interest since we are main distributors for The Bookroom Art Press – publishers of Limited Edition Prints by these very artists. The book costs £19.95 (pbk; 225pp); you can purchase the prints from the Bookshop itself, they cost between £55.00 and £135.00. (Review: DG)

England of Eric Ravilious. Freda Constable

Concentrates on what Ravilious himself felt was his most important work: his watercolours. It has 64 plates, about half of them in colour. With portayals of rolling Sussex Downland, greenhouse and farmhouse interiors, the book conveys why it is that Ravilious is so often referred to as the ‘quintessential English artist’. Cost: £19.95 (pbk; 104pp) You can also purchase giclée prints after Eric Ravilious published by The Bookroom Art Press (a company affiliated with the Bookshop) for between £65.00 and £265.00. (Review: DG)

Clare Leighton: Growth and Shaping of an Artist-Writer. David Roland Leighton

A selection from Leighton’s talks and memoirs, illustrated with excellent reproductions of Leighton’s wood-engravings. Born and trained in England where her early career unfolded, Leighton produced black and white wood-engravings, some no more than an inch across, up to her largest, measuring some 12 inches by 20. She departed for the States and is perhaps even better known there, but one artist local to Brighton, Eric Gill, writes of Leighton: ‘no one in our time has succeeded better than Clare Leighton in penetrating the breath of the life of the earth on a scale so grand’. Her wood engravings are exceptional and so is this book which costs only £16.96. (The Bookshop also sells a selection of fine giclée prints after Leighton’s work. Published by The Bookroom Art Press these cost £80.00 each). (Review DG)