Adventures in the Czech Republic

I have featured the work of Czech animators - Jiri Trnka and Jan Svankmajer - in previous posts. I am, as my regular readers already know,...

In my previous post I talked about Jiri Trnka's wonderful book illustrations, but he is probably (rightly) better known as a maker of st...

I recently bought an old book from a second-hand bookshop called Legends of Old Bohemia . It was published by Paul Hamlyn in the UK and by A...

Our son is at Westminster University studying film production. He is a very talented scriptwriter and has just emailed us to say that he has...