Liz Cooke

Forever Brooklyn is a book of stories. Some are told with words, but most are told with images. Much like Brooklyn itself, this is a book full of life, energy, and hope. At its heart, this is a book about people. With more than 2.7 million residents, Brooklyn is the world in microcosm. It is a place defined by immigration and gentrification, where extreme wealth and working-class grit share the same subway line. It is a place where historic brownstones stand in the shadows of gleaming high rises and where family-owned bodegas sit alongside trendy boutiques. Brooklyn is many things at once: old and new, traditional and progressive, restless yet rooted. On a good day, Brooklyn is a whirlwind. On a bad day, a tornado. At any given time, it is both. Photographers Liz Cooke and Andy Milford take readers from the gentrified neighborhoods of Park Slope and Williamsburg to the immigrant enclaves of Brighton Beach and Sunset Park, from the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights to the boardwalk in Coney Island. From street life to street art, Forever Brooklyn showcases the energy, diversity, and vitality that make Brooklyn, Brooklyn.

Captures the haunting beauty of abandoned places in the Hudson Valley, raising questions about the past. Just north of New York City, straddling both sides of the Hudson River, is the region known as the Hudson Valley. With its country roads, county fairs, long stretches of river, high mountain peaks, farm-to-table restaurants and quirky, bohemian villages, the Hudson Valley offers both modern energy and a trip back in time. There is history everywhere. On these pages, you will see a different side of the Hudson Valley. Photographers Liz Cooke and Andy Milford take you to neglected and abandoned asylums, schools, churches, mansions, farmhouses and hotels. You will see places like the once-hopping resorts of the Catskills (known as the Borscht Belt) that are deteriorating in plain sight. You will see inside the ruins of psychiatric institutions and walk the hallways of forsaken mansions with furnishings perfectly intact and personal effects left neatly behind. Why are there so many abandoned places in the Hudson Valley? These images do not propose answers, but they do raise questions that may only be answered with the passage of time.

This is the book that proves that Birmingham is not just the crucible of the Industrial Revolution, but the cradle of civilisation. From the team behind hit Birmingham miscellany, Paradise Circus, comes the definitive guide to the 101 things that made the world what it is today - and all of them were made in Birmingham. Read how Birmingham gave the world the wonders of tennis, nuclear war, the Beatles, 'that smell of eggs' and many more... 97 more. "101 Things Birmingham Gave The World, is not a Birmingham of the memory. It is a living breathing thing, wrestling with the city's contradictions, press-ganging the typically arch and understated humour of the Brummie, and an army of little-known facts, both trivial and monumental, into reshaping its confusing reputation." Stewart Lee