Author Mel Gooding has spent a lifetime writing about art, and is acquainted with many leading contemporary artists. His latest publication demystifies modern art and demonstrates that making art is a form of play with rules, techniques and strategies – and everyone can play. ‘Art Rules!’ offers a new key to enjoying and understanding contemporary art by showing how it is made. Readers can learn insider tips on how it works, not to mention how to look at it, creatively and with a fresh perspective. The box contains 42 illustrated and interactive cards with images and texts, plus an original book with chapters on the role of critics, drawing, art and nature, and much more.

Inside The Rainbow reprints for the first time in English a unique compendium of Soviet picture books from the 1920 and 1930s — a highpoint in the history of children's literature. In the dark and dangerous world of revolutionary Petrograd, a group of Russian poets and artists, among the greatest of the century, came together to create a new kind of book for children about to enter a Brave New World. These artists and writers dreamed of endless possibilities in a new world where children and grown-ups alike would be free from the bitterness of ignorance. For a time, when children's publications still escaped the scourge of state censorship, their books became a last haven for learning, poetic irony, burlesque and laughter. In this book 250 examples of illustration and design are complemented by some translations of poems and stories as well as texts from the victims, criminals and witnesses to the Russian revolution.

I never really wanted to be this kind of artist, but now that I am, I quite like it, Shrigley says, maybe its because I can now make a living from it, but I really enjoy doing my drawings as much as watching telly. Well, more than Taggart anyway, but probably less than Frazier.

Following on from the success of Calaveras (now out of print), here is another startling collection of extraordinary images to be published in time for the Day of the Dead on November 2nd. Posada and Manilla produced hundreds of prints for the Day of the Dead. These great printmakers, so admired by Diego Rivera, Sergei Eisenstein and the Surrealists used these popular prints to expose hypocrisy and reveal the ultimate absurdity of the human condition.