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Situated in the heart of historic London, Mayfair is one of the capital''s most affluent quarters. It is also home to people from all walks of life and diverse social backgrounds. Two Mayfairs sit by side by side - one out in the open, the other all but invisible. In this book, shot over a period of three years, Loren Kaye casts a sympathetic gaze on this vibrant and complex neighborhood, exposing its many layers.

When Alix Cleo Roubaud died at the age of 31, she left behind a profound and deeply personal body of work exploring self-portraiture, life, illness, the body and death. Helene Giannecchini was the curator tasked with sorting through some six hundred photographs, letters, and other written documents belonging to the artist ahead of a posthumous retrospective held at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in 2014. But she had never met Alix Cleo Roubaud and this absence is felt keenly through her writing as she treads the boundaries between biography and fiction, life and art. Helene Giannecchini pieces together the fragments that remain of this fleeting but dazzling life, spotlighting the theoretical underpinnings of the photographer''s ideas on the double, repetition and drawing out the influences of Wittgenstein and Gertrude Stein on her practice. Just as Alix Cleo Roubaud''s art is approached through the notes jotted in her journal, and the material evidence of trial prints and chemical

The Cahiers Series continues its exploration of translation in all its aspects with this account by renowned writer and academic Marine Warner of what happened to time during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdowns. She recounts how strangely her days and weeks passed, in this highly personal account of a response to lockdown in which she delves into her experience of Catholic convent schools for some clues as to how each day might be marked as significant. She discusses missals, almanacs, Roman and Revolutionary calendars, developing her thoughts into what amounts almost to a manifesto for a new way of rendering each day different, memorable, human. Her text is accompanied by a further response to lockdown, by the Greek photographer Dimitris Kleanthis, whose haunting images somehow make visible the suspension and acceleration of time experienced by so many, while also hinting at how, to the eye that is acute enough, there may always be an event taking place.

What happens when an art dealer, expert and author of a number of books on Chinese art turns to writing fiction? Having been immersed in the world of art for most of his life, Marcus Flacks shares with us his insights, knowledge and wisdom in The Cloud Collector, a highly original literary endeavour. The book, the first of three volumes, is a series of interwoven fable-like stories set in an unspecified time in the ancient empire of China, often inspired by Chinese works of art which themselves feature in the stories.