WEEKEND UTOPIA REVISED
AND EXPANDED EDITION
A Century of Modern Living in the Hamptons
BY ALASTAIR GORDON
An expanded new edition of this fascinating and lavishly illustrated landmark volume offers a guided tour of Hamptons history and the architects and personalities artists and designers, eccentrics and dreamers who transformed this oncesleepy rural outpost to the high-powered resort it is today.
“Weekend Utopia brings to vivid life a century in the architectural and social history of the East End.”
– Best Books of 2001, New York Times Book Review
The Hamptons have long served as a release valve for the urban pressures of New York City. Weekend Utopia traces the competitive, often humorous, and always compelling development of this incandescently beautiful but maddeningly self-conscious seaside paradise Journalist and critic Alastair Gordon looks behind the hype of this charmed seaside realm to reveal the true legacy of the Hamptons as an incubator of cuttingedge art, architecture, and lifestyle that has helped to redefine the very notion of American leisure.
This revised edition includes never-before-seen images and newly researched stories, an updated introduction, and an extensive new concluding chapter that brings the narrative into the present, demonstrating how the region's modernist legacy continues to influence and inspire the East End architecture and culture of today.
9781797241845
$50 00 • £40 00
Hardcover • 8½ x 11 in • 224 Pages
350+ color and black-and-white images, unjacketed
Architecture / Contemporary
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Cat Willett is an illustrator and author whose work celebrates women and aims to uplift and inspire others through comics and books She is the author of The Queen of Wands: The Story of Pamela Colman Smith: The Artist Behind the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck and more.
UNCONDITIONAL Stories of Women and the Animals They Love
BY CAT WILLETT, FOREWORD BY SUSAN KORN
An intimate and moving collection of stories about women and their life-changing relationships with animals, told in vivid graphic novel style.
In Unconditional, popular illustrator and writer Cat Willett explores the deep, sometimes transcendent relationship between women and their animal companions The animals she’s shared her life with have pulled her through difficult times, accompanied her through growth and transition, and taught her a great deal about pain and loss. Using rich, full-color illustrations, she shares illuminating stories of different women and their pets, including:
Terra and her parrot, Pooja, grieved together when Terra’s mother passed away from pancreatic cancer.
Tuck and Liza, two cats adopted in Ukraine and Poland, helped Brianne cope with the challenge of waiting for her journalist husband to return from an assignment in a war zone
Hyesu adopted her dog, Dutch, from a shelter and found calm and support for her anxiety
Finn, Pam’s rabbit, helped her redefine the meaning of family while providing companionship and support living in a big city far from home.
With these honest, pure retellings, as well as her own stories, Willett reveals the mutual bond that grows when animals are invited into our sphere and how meaningful those relationships can be.
9781797235318
$24.95 • £18.99
Paperback • 7½ x 9¼ in • 240 Pages full-color illustrations throughout Pets / Essays & Narratives
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Marco Colombo is an environmental guide, scuba diving master, TV scientific consultant, and wildlife and underwater photographer His photographs and articles have appeared in National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Nat'Images, and elsewhere
Francesco Tomasinelli is a freelance biologist, science communicator, and photographer. As a photojournalist, he has joined several scientific expeditions in the Tropics and has documented various conservation programs in Italy and abroad.
Giulia De Amicis is a designer and illustrator who presents complex information through infographics, data visualization, cartography, and illustration. She focuses on projects related to environmental issues, marine conservation, animal welfare, human rights, and human geography for clients including newspapers, research institutes, NGOs, and the educational sector
THE COLORFUL WORLD OF REPTILES
BY MATT SEWELL
A beautifully illustrated introduction to reptiles with colorful watercolor art and descriptions full of fun facts.
From the creator of the bestselling The Colorful World of Dinosaurs, this follow-up volume introduces fifty amazing reptiles with striking watercolor art and fun facts on each. Beloved authorillustrator Matt Sewell delves into the fascinating, mysterious, and sometimes downright bizarre lives of reptiles, including spectacular snakes, lizards, crocodiles, bearded dragons, turtles, and tortoises
Did you know . . .
The oldest known reptilian fossil is 315 million years old!
That dinosaurs were also reptiles though not, as some people think, giant lizards
The green basilisk can walk on water
The Galápagos tortoise can comfortably live for more than one hundred years
The saltwater crocodile is the world’s biggest living reptile (with an average one weighing around one thousand pounds!).
Matt Sewell is a writer, artist, and illustrator whose books include The Atlas of Amazing Birds and The Colorful World of Dinosaurs, both also published by PA Press. He lives in Shrewsbury, England, where he is an avid ornithologist.
9781797238432
$19 99 • £14 99
Hardcover • 9¼ x 11¾ in • 96 Pages
full-color illustrations throughout, unjacketed Juvenile Nonfiction / Reptiles
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Ages 5 to 12
On Sale: April 2026
BIRD BOX: 100 POSTCARDS BY 10 ARTISTS
100 Postcards by 10 Artists BY PA PRESS
Bird Box celebrates feathered friends of every variety with 100 postcards by 10 different artists
Hummingbirds, raptors, waterfowl, and more this whimsical postcard collection includes a stunning variety of feathered friends The keepsake box is divided into tabbed sections housing postcards by artist, and an enclosed booklet highlights each one ’ s creative processes and influences. This colorful set is a perfect gift for every bird lover.
9781797240046
$24.95 • £21.99
Postcards • 4¼ x 6¼ in • 100 Postcards full-color images throughout, lidded box with 10 tabbed dividers, 24-page booklet
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The V&A is a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity. Their mission is to champion design and creativity in all forms, advance cultural knowledge, and inspire makers, creators and innovators everywhere.
CATS OF THE V&A: 50 POSTCARDS BY
THE V&A MUSEUM
A set of fifty beguiling, funny, and artistic feline postcards selected from the incomparable collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Bringing together fifty of the V&A’s most adorable, stylish, and charming cats, this boxed postcard set features a wide range of art styles, from the Edwardian eccentricity of Louis William Wain to the whimsy of early Victorian Christmas cards, and from the fish-stealing strays of sixteenth-century genre painting to the sophisticated felines of 1920s Paris
Included are artists from all over the world using many different mediums, including:
A tantalizing photograph by A W Turner from the 1860s
The famous Tournée du Chat Noir lithograph poster from 1896
A unique Chinese painting of a cat waiting in ambush by Ji Biao from 1819
A charming domestic scene in woodcut by LudovicRodo Pissarro from 1919
A playful watercolor by an unknown, likely Mughal, artist from 1740
Pencil sketch studies by Helen Allingham from the early 20th century
And many more
9781797243412
$18 95
Postcard Book or Pack • 4¾ x 7¼ in • 50 Pages
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On Sale: April 2026
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