Books

Discover our range of books on subjects as diverse as fashion and textiles, design and the decorative arts, theatre, pattern, craft and fine art. Many are published by the V&A.

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Exhibition and displays

Book of the month

Studio Ceramics

In his introductory essay, Alun Graves, Senior Curator of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, provides all lovers of ceramics – collectors, practitioners, historians and those interested in modern and contemporary art and crafts – with the historical context, documenting this shift in the medium into an expressive, and sometimes interventionist, art form.

£55

LGBTQIA+ books

Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness

£9.99

The Queer Bible

£20

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

£9.99

Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places & Stories

£40

Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2020

£11.99

Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday

£25

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

£20

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

£12.99

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Fashion Favourites

Vivienne Westwood Catwalk

£55

YSL Lexicon

£45

Christian Dior - official exhibition book (hardback)

£40

Alexander McQueen (Metropolitan Museum of Art Edition)

£35

African Textiles

£25

Fashion in Detail: 19th Century

£25

18th-Century Fashion in Detail

£25

Mary Quant (Hardback)

£30

London Couture: British Luxury 1923-1975

£50

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Bestsellers

David Bowie is - official exhibition book (deluxe hardback)

This is the only book to be granted access to Bowie's personal archive of performance costume, ephemera and original design artwork by the artist, and brings it together to present a completely new perspective on his creative work and collaborations. The book traces his career from its beginnings in London, through the breakthroughs of Space Oddity and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and on to his impact on the larger international tradition of twentieth-century avant-garde art.

£40