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23 Mai Georgia O’Keeffe
Part of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of America's greatest artists, in this true story of a talented painter who broke boundaries. As a child, little Georgia viewed the world differently from other people. [expand title="more"]She roamed outdoors with her sketch book, while other girls played. As an adult, she painted all day. From New York City to New Mexico, she was influenced by the landscapes of her environment. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the artist's life.[/expand]
23 Mai Maria Montessori
New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Maria Montessori, the pioneering teacher and researcher.[expand title="more"]Maria grew up in Italy at a time when girls didn't receive an equal education to boys. But Maria's mother was supportive of her dreams, and Maria went on to study medicine. She later became an early childhood expert--founding schools with her revolutionary educational theories and changing the lives of many children. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the educator's life.[/expand]
23 Mai Agatha Christie
In this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Agatha Christie, the most famous crime writer of all time. When Agatha was young, she read books every night, but always had her own idea for how they should end! [expand title="more"]As an adult, her crime novels, with their twists and turns and peculiar detectives, challenged the minds of millions of readers, making her the queen of mystery and the bestselling novelist of all time. This stirring book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the author's life.[/expand]
02 Feb Boy.Brother.Friend – #7 2024
What can artists, activists, intellectuals, and documentarians do in a time of war? Whose voice can we look to to show us the way, when what we see, hear and experience (certainly in the Global North) is fraught with dispute, discourse, discrimination, and doom-scrolling? Individuals and communities caught up in real-time, in any conflict, are often rendered voiceless or ignored (once again by the Global North) all the while facing existential crises and anxieties unfathomable to many. People looking relatively comfortably from afar while trying to make sense of or call out the depredations of war are often told to look elsewhere, attacked, or silenced, as we’ve seen in the past few months against the backdrop of a devastating violence in the Middle East conflict and other conflicts. For this issue, we look at a conflict receiving little international coverage, and to a diaspora uniquely placed to speak about its impact on their lives. War erupted in Sudan on 15 April 2023 and at least 6.4 million people, out of a pre-war population of roughly 46 million individuals, are now forcibly displaced. The war’s impact, while still ongoing, is likely to profoundly reshape the country, surrounding region, and the world in both foreseeable and unexpected ways for some time to come. This issue consequently gathers a small group of thinkers, activists, artists, and people from other walks of life, often Sudanese, but not exclusively, to showcase together their hopes and DREAM’s. As their stories within these pages attest, it is through the strength and resilience of ideas and art that will help us collectively remake our world for the better. This being Boy.Brother.Friend, the community within these pages significantly falls outside of the narrow depictions of wherever the boundaries of Africa and the Middle East are drawn, both of which sometimes include Sudan. Contrary to popular narratives, there are feminist and queer Sudanese communities, which have of course created vibrant, and often defiant, spaces for themselves that intersect with thriving intellectual and artistic communities.
17 Jan Dirty Furniture – Bed
So here we are in the year 2024! Well done, you made it out of bed! We here at do you read me?! understand the challenges of leaving your bed during this dark and cold season. So when we saw that Dirty Furniture–an independent design magazine that uncovers the relationship between people and the things they live with–had set their sights on this holiest article of household furniture for their last issue, we simply could not resist making it this month’s Surprise Subscription pick. More
30 Nov Entangled Landscapes #1 2023 – Abruzzo
Vol 1 is now ready to travel out into the world, and into the hands of you, dear readers. In the process of creating this little magical jewel we've had the immense pleasure and honor of meeting and collaborating with a group of deeply inspiring people, projects, and organisations, and it has been nothing but amazing, uplifting, and often deeply moving to get to know these incredible people and to learn about the fascinating work unfolding in the region of Abruzzo. Our hearts are full of gratitude to everyone who has taken part in the co-creation of this beautiful little bundle of gems. We know that Abruzzo contains many more stories than the ones we have been able to portray in this volume, but we believe this collection is a good place to start the exploration of magical Abruzzo!
17 Nov More or Less #7 Autumn 2023
Excess is no longer in fashion. Creativity is the new luxury. A major goal of More Or Less is to provoke thought about the decisions we make when we buy clothes – factoring in the realities of cost and consumption. I also wanted to offer a glimpse of how real people actually dress without sacrificing the transportive magic and fantasy of fashion. More Or Less is not another magazine showcasing only current-season fashion. Vintage, army surplus, sportswear, old school uniforms, craft, rubbish – all are fair game. A symptom of our see-now-buy-now, click-to-buy modernity is immediate gratification and overindulgence. In this rapid-fire exchange, little time is devoted to asking “Do I need this? Do I even want this?” More Or Less celebrates a new type of luxury: creativity. More Or Less is the first magazine to prioritise sustainabilty in the fashion industry. World class photographers, stylists and designers have accepted our challenge to create fashion stories which are eco-conscious, innovative, fun and with a more accessible price-point. More Or Less is about reshaping a society of excess.
10 Nov Elska #44 – Tbilisi, Georgia
This issue, our 44th adventure, was made in Tbilisi, Georgia, one of the most gorgeous cities in the world. There's really very little negative we can say about this place, it's such a glorious and captivating specimen of urbanity. However, attitudes towards LGBTQ people in Georgian society are less than ideal, and of course that's what we came to focus on - Elska is after all not a travel mag but a mag about queer lives. In this issue we met a cross-section of ordinary local men from the city's LGBTQ community, who we present to you through intimate photography and personal storytelling. The men you'll find here are representative of Tbilisi at a very particular moment in history… Russia's war against Ukraine led to the arrival of over 100,000 Russians trying to escape conscription or other effects of the war, a number that brought about noticeable changes to the city's fabric, both on the surface and emotionally - after all, Russia is a country that Georgia suffered its own war against in 2008 and which today occupies 20% of its territory. The effects of this situation is visible in this issue through what our Russian escapee and native Georgian participants chose to reveal, both in their physical expression and in their stories. Elska is not intentionally a political publication, but this issue is par hasard our most political (though ‘Elska Belfast’ might argue it holds the title). This is simply a reflection of the times and the mood. Nevertheless although some content here tends towards the heavier side, the weight of beauty throughout remains heavier still. And for those readers who are strangers to the Caucasian world, you can as always enjoy this issue for its beautiful men and intimacy.