The popularity of rock climbing is burgeoning across the globe, with dedicated communities practicing everything from bouldering to sport climbing, top roping to free soloing, in awe-inspiring locations. The Art of Climbing showcases Simon Carter's dramatic and often graphic photography, providing inspiration for aspirational outdoor climbers-- anyone keen to graduate from inside climbing walls--and seasoned climbers alike.

The main chapters evoke powerful themes--from Formations to Environment, Intensity to Flow--that exist at the intersection of sport and art. Thoughtful chapter texts, written by Carter and major names on the international climbing scene, narrate experiences on the rock face, exploring both the athletic and aesthetic value of climbing. A reference section includes practical details such as a glossary, grading table, and descriptions of ten selected routes.

Gus Honeybun . . . Your Boys Took One Hell of a Beating tells the story of a lifetime aboard the emotional roller-coaster of inconsistency which is Exeter City--one of English soccer's most unfashionable and unsuccessful clubs. Like many soccer fans, author Simon Carter's soccer supporting life is a long way from the glitz and glamor of the Premier League; instead, its high points are memorable trips to Halifax, Crewe, Carlisle, and Maidstone. With the self-deprecation you'd expect from an Exeter City fan, on his travels with the Grecians he meets Brad Pitt and Freddie Starr; writes about Uri Geller in the local newspaper, with miserable consequences; and wins a tenner for scoring a goal in front of 3,000 fans--albeit past a small girl dressed in a large turkey costume Gus Honeybun . . . Your Boys Took One Hell of a Beating provides the perfect antidote to those many books which chart tales of glory and success, and gives a light-hearted and real-life insight into what it's like being a fan on the bottom rung of the ladder that is English professional soccer.

The Brentwood Stations of the Cross is a record of a project initiated by Father Martin Boland, Dean of Brentwood Cathedral and curated by artist Simon Carter. Fifteen contemporary painters have each interpreted one of the Stations of the Cross, the resulting paintings were first exhibited in Brentwood Cathedral, Essex from Ash Wednesday to Good Friday 2015. Father Martin Boland writes, The artists who created the Brentwood Stations of the Cross have approached this challenge with the same creative openness and intellectual rigour which they would have applied to any other subject; and this project has shown not only that art and faith can find creative ways to talk to one other, but that they have a real moral imperative so to do. This is a project of Contemporary British Painting, a grouping established in 2012 by artists Simon Carter and Robert Priseman with the aim to promote the practise of, and debate around contemporary painting. Introduction by Simon Carter, Essay by Fr. Martin Boland and short texts by the 15 artists. Fully illustrated in colour. Artists included are David Ainley, Simon Carter, Andrew Crane, Pen Dalton, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, Marguerite Horner, Linda Ingham, Matthew Krishanu, Gideon Pain, Ruth Philo, Robert Priseman, Freya Purdue, David Sullivan.

- Beautiful guide to the famed Artists' Corner at St Paul's Cathedral

- Informative biographies of the artists commemorated at Artists' Corner

- Portable, attractive souvenir of Artists' Corner, in the same style as Monuments of St Paul's Cathedral (2021) and Mosaics of St Paul's Cathedral (2015)

Artists' Corner in St Paul's Cathedral is the final resting place for some of the greatest artists working in the United Kingdom, including Turner, Leighton and Millais. British painters of the 19th century are shoulder to shoulder with artists from America and Continental Europe who made Britain their home and helped to shape national taste. Artists' Corner reflects a golden age of artistic production, when the visual arts were central to British cultural pride and identity, when the funerals of the cultural figures were occasions of national mourning, and their achievements were marked with monuments and enduring plaques. All of the painters and sculptors memorialized in Artists' Corner are brought together in this guide, with references to some of their master works which chart a trajectory from history painting to the arrival of impressionism and abstraction in the 20th century.

Sunshine plays an important role in all aspects of life but there has been little social analysis of the sun and its place in our world. Recently experts have warned us that the sun's rays are dangerous. Yet, a suntan can still be taken as a sign of health. How did we arrive at this ambivalent relationship to the sun and what does this say about our changing attitudes to the human body and environment? Rise and Shine takes as its starting point a view of sunlight as part of our material and social culture. How did the use of sunlight to treat tuberculosis and rickets in the early twentieth century alter our relationship with the sun? When was suntan lotion invented? By drawing on a range of archival and historical sources, Rise and Shine traces the network of social and medical forces that constitute our current, sometimes problematic, relationship with sun and sunlight.

Sunshine plays an important role in all aspects of life but there has been little social analysis of the sun and its place in our world. Recently experts have warned us that the sun's rays are dangerous. Yet, a suntan can still be taken as a sign of health. How did we arrive at this ambivalent relationship to the sun and what does this say about our changing attitudes to the human body and environment? Rise and Shine takes as its starting point a view of sunlight as part of our material and social culture. How did the use of sunlight to treat tuberculosis and rickets in the early twentieth century alter our relationship with the sun? When was suntan lotion invented? By drawing on a range of archival and historical sources, Rise and Shine traces the network of social and medical forces that constitute our current, sometimes problematic, relationship with sun and sunlight.

@PaintBritain: 45 contemporary painters looks at painting in Britain in the 21st century and catalogues the 2014/15 exhibition of the same name at Ipswich Art School Gallery. It is a project of Contemporary British Painting established in 2012 by artists Simon Carter and Robert Priseman. Introduction by Robert Priseman, essay by Simon Carter, biographical details and colour illustrations of work by 45 painters.