Vanessa Bell's art and life were animated by the complex emotions of motherhood: creativity and care bound up with doubt, desire and ambivalence. This is the first book to focus exclusively on the influence of motherhood in Bell's art, exploring how it shaped her creative vision and its lasting legacy at Charleston, her country home.In 1916 Bell moved with her young children and the painter Duncan Grant to Charleston, a remote farmhouse in the Suss...

TO HELL WITH POVERTY! documents Jon King's story from a South London slum and impoverished working-class background to international success as core musician, lyricist, writer, and producer in legendary post-punk/funk band Gang of Four. The reader is taken on an episodic and kaleidoscopic journey full of adventures from childhood to the end of Gang of Four's 'golden period' in 1984. Thrown off Top of the Pops, truncheoned by police at an anti-Nazi rally, being at the heart of Leeds music s...

'Entertaining and revealing . . . it offers a deeply human portrait of its narrator, a creative force shaped by chaos, resilience and an unrelenting drive to make art. It is a personal and, at times, harrowing journey which provides insight into a band that contributed to the evolution of rock music and inspired generations' Louder Than War'To Hell With Poverty! captures something of [Gang of Four's] essence rare: fractious, discordant, th...