The history of China - brilliantly told and brought vividly to life through 7,000 years of objects from fine art to the everyday.

A companion volume to Unravelled and Threads, featuring the work of ninety artists at the forefront of contemporary ceramic art.

Derek Jarman's garden is in the flat expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness, Kent. He mixed the flint, shells and driftwood of Dungeness with indigenous and introduced plants. This book is his own record of how this garden evolved, from its beginnings in 1985.