Originating in 17th-century Japan during the Edo Period, Netsuke (pronounced nets-keh) are toggles that attach pouches to the traditional robes, kimonos.

Edmund de Waal made his first pot when he was five years old and dipped it in white glaze. He made his first white porcelain bowl at seventeen and is still at it. Porcelain has been a white gold, ...

THE “untypical” story of a Jewish child who survived the Holocaust after being cared for by a Dutch woman from a Catholic ...

Dedicated to analog color photography, Tronvoll’s practice is centred around craftsmanship and she collaborates with master printers such as Dagmar Miethke in Düsseldorf and Barbara Thiel in Berlin to ...

Edmund de Waal, chair of the judges, described it as "a book about a wounded world" with "everyone and no one" as the subject. "With her language of lyricism and acuity Harvey makes our world ...

Writer and artist Edmund de Waal, who chaired the five-member judging ... likely to be the warmest year in recorded history,” the winning book was “hopeful, timely and timeless.” ...

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The first event attended by the pair was a service, held at the Great Hall at London's Lambeth Palace, and hosted by the Council of Christians and Jews. Writer and ceramicist Edmund de Waal offered a ...

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own. By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Here’s how it works. Seeing as the game is now over 50 years old, it's hard to narrow down the best D&D books. There are quite literally enough to fill a small library these days, so which ones ...

and never worried about getting eight hours sleep! The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were released on Reagan's inauguration ...