by NRB | 17 Jan 2023 | Non-fiction |
This sumptuous book is richly illustrated and almost as carefully crafted as the Byzantine silk of its title. Editor Sarah Braddock Clarke describes Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads as an ‘academic book’, yet there is much to interest and delight a general reader like...
by NRB | 26 May 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Since tribal days, and probably before, women have been the instigators of, and largely predominant in, several arts – usually demoted to ‘crafts’ in our patriarchal world. (How did men get the ‘martial arts’?) Primarily these womanly arts are gardening, cooking,...