RUBooks Blog

We’re celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens with the Museum of London! In the UK’s first major exhibition on the author for over 40 years, the Museum of London is recreating the atmosphere of Victorian London through sound and projections and more. You’ll be taken on a haunting journey to discover the city that inspired his writings. Paintings, photographs, costume and objects illustrate themes that Dickens wove into his works, while rarely seen manuscripts including Bleak House and David Copperfield – written in the author’s own hand – offer clues to his creative genius.

Get into the spirit of London with these great offers from TheHobbyWarehouse!

Inside Dicken's London

Inside Dickens’ London – Our Price £7.99

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We are moving!!!

For how to books on photography, railways, travel, trivia, writing, crafting and more visit The Hobby Warehouse. We’ve still got a great range at better than  great prices.

For all art related books please go to Painters Books!

We’ve got something for everyone in our Family Christmas Gift bundle! We have put together a fun selection of goodies for you to win, perfect for Christmas! Prize includes Chocolate Fix Game, a Family Jigsaw Puzzle, Tea & Cake Cup & Coaster Set, Christmas Cupcakes Book & Jamie Oliver’s Great Britain.  The latest competition is open until Thursday 15th December 2011 and the winner will be informed by Friday 16th December 2011.  Enter at RUbooks.

Yep, that’s what I said! We know that you love the books that help you make the world a more colourful, wonderful, fabulous place to be, and we know that everybody likes free stuff right? Well, how’s about bringing those two worlds together in on beautiful gesture?  We’ve got an amazing 5 competitions running on our www.rubooks.co.uk website right now in which you could win all sorts of awesome clobber.  Here’s a look at 3 of my favourites…

Top of the pile is a prize for £50 voucher at RUBooks. Wowser! You could spend that on anything in the shop including great music titles like Madonna or even The Rolling Stones!   This book has all the world famous moves, more than 100 classic pictures and great stories from the band. Not one to be missed, especially  if you’re name is Angie. Enter here.

Rockin' Rolling Stones coffee table book with a mug for your...coffee

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We know that  you’ve got a bit of a wild side, that why we’ve got some fabulous deals on wonderfully inspirational wildlife photography books with our 10% off deal live until 12  Dec. Wonderful prices on books with great pictures of lions and tigers and…yes, there are a few robins as well.

You can even get a great bargain on the book for the London Natural History Museum exhibition that everyone is talking about the Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 21. We’re talking 160 pages of up close and personal beautiful imagery and just£18 this week until 12 Dec, it’s difficult not to

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In honour of the mayhem that is ‘Black Friday’ we’ve got a ma-husive 50% off sale on ALL of our David and Charles Books. That includes great works on painting, photography and drawing. There are almost 200 items in the sale, but here are some of our top picks.  Sale ends Sunday 27 November, so get in quick!

Claudia Nice is nice, so nice she’s willing to share all (well some) of her top tips for drawing and painting all different types of trees in her book, Drawing and Painting Trees in the Landscape.  Whether you’re out in the wild or sketching from photos, this bestseller has all the step by step instructions you’ll need to get every leaf, branch and twig just the way you want it.

Drawing & Painting Trees in the Landscape by Claudia Nice

Buy now for only £7.49

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A quick post today to highlight the latest offer on RUBooks. With Christmas around the corner, RUBooks has a great offer this month. Spend over £15 in art and you can choose a free book. You have a choice of Acrylic Workbook, Watercolour Workbook, Expressive Oil Painting and Drawing Index.

A quick post, as Halloween approaches, so celebrate Halloween this year with one of these great spooky books.

A quick post today to let you know of the new video clip by Bryan Hitch which was made available today. Another great insight into the world of comic illustration…. enjoy!

The pioneering British photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain opening on 8th September. Bringing together around 150 works, this exhibition will demonstrate how Muybridge broke new ground in the emerging art form of photography.

From his iconic images of animals and humans in motion to depictions of the sublime landscapes and life of the dynamic America of the later nineteenth century, the exhibition will explore the ways in which Muybridge created and honed his remarkable images that continue to resonate powerfully with artists and photographers.

Eadweard Muybridge proves a horse can fly

Muybridge was the first person to demonstrate that a horse lifts all its hooves in the air at the same time when it is galloping along, something that it was impossible to see with the naked eye and was proved through his method of using multiple cameras to take motion shots.  His ‘time-lapsed’ photographic work is fascinating and extremely useful to artists, showing as it does the exact position of a body and its limbs – whether animal or human -  at various points when it is moving.

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