Böcker av Anna Jackson

This sumptuous book explores the important world that woodblock prints played in the fashionable world of Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). 170 ukiyo-e - 'pictures of the floating world' offer us a vivid view of the culture of entertainment, style and glamour that developed in bustling urban centres. Expert curators bring to life the scenes and figures depicted, and highlight the fashions, dress accessories and hairstyles shown in these colourful and compelling images by artists such as Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Hiroshige.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images. Kimono displays some of the best Japanese textile patterns at the V&A, ranging over 200 years from the early nineteenth century.

The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia Plath, this book looks at how six very different professional writers have approached the diary form with its particular demands and literary potential.