But Beautiful. Geoff DyerLester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric

patience and attention to detail

and imagining new futures

Hand decorated porcelain brooch

This creative craft kit from Djeco allows you to create adorable pictures featuring a selection of cute and quirky dogs using the included colourful pom-poms and glue stick

Jeppe Hein

That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more pared down

while she was Poet Laureate

The next process was to burn out the soft summer growth from between the harder winter growth rings to highlight the natural grain

His new book

who turned electronic music into avant-garde concept art and created the soundtrack to our digital age

These new fingerless gloves by Quinton & Chadwick feature a graphic multi-colour design with alternating coloured fingers

Poo Bingo is gorgeously illustrated by award-winning illustrator Claudia Boldt while also containing an informative booklet with all the things you wanted to know - and never dared to ask - about animals and their poos