Böcker av Stephen Duffy

For the most part it was quite a normal childhood, similar in many ways to those of the countless other kids who grew up in Ballybrack in the late seventies and early eighties. Except of course for the werewolves, the gremlin, the ambitions to the papacy, the missing skin, the Amoxicillin induced gastric suction, the quicksand, the monster in the manhole, and the faux fur coat.Stephen Duffy, author of the much loved Tommy Costelloe trilogy, 'Off Me Block', returns with, 'They Called Me Curly Bill', a collection of comical stories of his own, somewhat unorthodox, childhood in Ballybrack. Told with a frank and uproarious honesty, it recounts both adventure and misadventure alike, and is certain to both entertain and amuse from cover to cover.

This book discusses each of these and illustrates all of them in color for the first time. It also provides a valuable biographical introduction with illustrations of related paintings and drawings by Bonington and his contemporaries. It will appeal not only to those who enjoy the work of this delightful artist but to anyone interested in British painting during one of its greatest eras.

This work discusses each painting of the Wallace collection of Richard Parkes Bonington and illustrates all of them in colour. It also provides a biographical introduction with illustrations of related paintings and drawings by Bonington and his contemporaries.