Quiz Answer 3.

Virginia Woolf (English, 1882 - 1941)
The daughter of renowned literary critic Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf grew up surrounded by such influential Victorian authors as Henry James, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and George Eliot, so it is not surprising that she, too, tried her hand at writing, to great success. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a writer and together they founded Hogart Press, which would later publish works by T.S. Eliot, Maxim Gorky, and E.M. Forster.

Woolf has been hailed as a leading innovator of modernist fiction due to her experimental work with stream of consciousness and fractured narrative in her novels, most notably Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Her famous essay "a room of one's own" remains one of the most important texts of contemporary feminism.

From childhood, Woolf suffered from periods of severe depression, and in 1941 she drowned herself after writing a note to her husband-"I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times... I can't fight it any longer."

Quiz Question 3.

Quiz Question 3.

This feminist essayist was a pioneer of the modern novel.

Who was she?

Any guesses? - danielr@pomeurope.co.uk

Quiz Answer 2.

Answer 2.

Emily Bront

One of a trio of sisters famous for their literary talents, Emily Brontë authored just one novel during her short life, but it has since become a classic of English literature. The fifth of six children, she grew up on the lonely moors of Yorkshire, where her father was the rector. After the death of their mother in 1821, the children entertained themselves by imagining fantasy worlds and writing down their creations in notebooks.

Educated mostly at home, Emily worked as a governess and flirted with the idea of opening a school, going as far as Brussels to study languages and school management, but she eventually dropped her plans. Her younger sister Anne discovered a book of verse Emily had written and convinced her sisters to publish a book of poetry. This led each sister to her own novelistic pursuits, resulting in Emily's haunting tale of love and revenge, Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. Only thirty years old, Emily died of tuberculosis the next year.

Quiz Question 2. - Happy Easter!

Happy Easter Everyone! - Hope you enjoy the long weekend.

We're bringing the quiz to you early this week as tomorrow is Good Friday. We'll be back in the office on Tuesday, and the answer to this rather taxing question will be posted Friday 13th.

You'll be please to know that we're adding prizes to this quiz! The first person to email the correct answer to Danielr@pomeurope.co.uk will win one of our top 10 knowledge card decks.

This week, the deck up for grabs is "The Queens English: A smattering of seemingly nonsensical British words and phrases"


So here's the question, good luck....

Question 2.

Unlike her more prolific sisters, this writer published only one novel.
Who was she?

Answer to question 1.

Jane Austen (English, 1775 - 1817)

Today one of the most celebrated writers of the Western canon, Jane Austen published her novels anonymously to avoid the tarnished reputation of a woman writer. The seventh of eight children, Austen was born in Hampshire, England, and spent most of her life close to home. She began writing as a child to amuse herself and her family. Known for their perfect form, her books - including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park - Infuse everyday, commonplace events with humor, irony, and drama. Her heroines are bright, moral young women who struggle for love and happiness in a society where men inherit familial wealth and marriage determines social status.

Though her characters ultimately achieve satisfaction, Austen - who never married - was no true romantic: "I could not seriously sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life."

Quiz Time!

Over the coming weeks I will be posting a series of questions and answers from some of the great titles in our Knowledge card range.

This first set of questions are from our "Who was she? Noteable Women in Literature" quiz deck. The deck contains 48 cards, each packed with bite-sized info and trivia in a question and answer format.

I'll post the first question now, and the answer in a weeks time. Good luck!

Question 1.

Who was she?
"Writing was considered an unladylike endeavor at the turn of the nineteenth century, so this observer of social conventions wrote on small pieces of paper that could quickly be hidden under a blotter when guests visited."

We wish you a merry.....

OK, so it's not quite Christmas yet!

Nevertheless, the brand new Pomegranate Christmas Catalogue is almost ready.

Christmas 2006 was the first that the UK and Europe had seen of the Pomegranate Christmas range for some time. The stunning, festive cards are back again this year and from the look of the current interest, they will indeed be here to stay! That’s not surprising when you see the catalogue. Many of Pomegranate’s top artists can be found with a festive twist in the Christmas range. From Kliban’s Cats playing festive games and trying to stay warm, to Edward Gorey’s darker views on Christmas, Santa, and the festive period.

However, the Christmas range is not only about our acclaimed artist’s work. We also publish a huge selection of Christmas cards featuring beautiful photography of the natural world at Christmas and the amazing animals within it, in association with Sierra Club. You’ll find Penguins, Polar Bears and Arctic Foxes, all posing for these stunning images, which can all be found in the back of the catalogue. A portion of the proceeds from all Sierra Club sales goes towards preserving and protecting the planet.


Christmas card catalogues will be available from April onwards, and we are always happy to take advanced orders in preparation for Christmas. We offer the individual cards either as singles (in cellophane bag, with envelope) or in boxes of 12 with envelopes.

2008 Calendars

2006 has just finished and we’re already raring to go with our superb 2008 calendar range. This year there have been loads of additions, some great new titles and even a whole new format!

Our new format is our Postcard planner. Imagine a pocket / handbag diary, page per week, month grids throughout, then between each week slot a charming detachable postcard featuring the works of Edward Gorey, Robert Crumb or Charles Addams. This is a promising range that will undoubtedly be expanded next year.

We have three stunning new wall calendars, published in cooperation with the “Sacred” exhibition at the British Library (April – September 2007). The Sacred collection will include three calendars, one on each the Torah, the Qur’an and the Bible. These calendars focus on not only the words that these sacred documents hold, but also the decoration and typography of their worshipped pages.

We’ve added some beautiful new fine art titles, most notably the new wall calendar from Arthur Rackham. Known for his illustrations in such children’s classics as “wind in the willows” and “Alice in wonderland,” Rackham’s fantasy illustrations have been cherished by many generations of children and adults alike.

There will be a great selection of speciality format calendars for 2008,these are mostly specialist titles that for the right person will be totally essential. For example our Yoga planner is perfect for any Yoga practitioner and student, even a complete beginner will find the tips, positions and suggestions in this diary, a great way to get into Yoga.

2008 will also see first editions of our P+ Business planner, Jewish Woman’s planner and the busy parents planner. These new titles can be found alongside last year’s favourites like the Herbal Journal and the Ecological Diary.

We will have 2008 Calendar catalogues by the beginning of March, if you would like a copy please let us know.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. Now, it's time to get back to work!

Here at Pomegranate Europe, we're jumping straight into 2007 with a superb new paper product launch. Containing some great new artists and new products by great old ones we'll help kick start your 2007 gift range.

New to Pomegranate is acclaimed feminist artist and sculptor, Judy Chicago. Made famous by her thought provoking exhibit celebrating thousands of influential women, "The Dinner party." Judy Chicago has blazed a trail for both female artists and woman’s rights since she arrived on the scene back in the 70's.

We are publishing a series of products on Judy and her work, starting in this launch with two boxed postcard sets. One showing plate designs and one Banners from "The Dinner Party." Our Judy Chicago products are published in co-operation with The Feminist art program of the university of California, an organization founded by Judy.

There are plenty of new artists in this release, a lot of which will also feature in our 2008 calendar range. (More on that later) New artists include, Arthur Rackham, Elias Rivera, Jasper Johns and Koo Schadler to mention a few, plus additions from old favourites like M.C. Escher, Robert Crumb, Pissarro and Tom Thomson.

After enormous success in the last 12 months we've expanded our designer gift-wrap range. We've added 5 new titles, each taken from one of Frank Lloyd Wright's exquisite designs for glass, fabric, and wall decoration. These are all stunning, vivid designs, and need to be seen to be appreciated. Please don't hesitate to request some samples.

We have four new jigsaw puzzles entering the range this month. Featuring artwork by Monet, Baumann, Frank Lloyd Wright and Jonathan Green. Just like the rest of our Jigsaw range these are large 1000 piece puzzles, each printed with the highest quality reproductions of fine artworks from past and present.

For the quizmasters out there we have added to our best selling Knowledge Card™ range some great new titles. Including Shakespeare's Quips, Cusses and Curses, What do you know about Wine? and Great Buildings of London. Our Knowledge card™ range covers such a wide variety of subjects that it's hard not to find something that will keep you entertained as either a quiz deck or even as a solitary read.

If you would like a full launch list, any information, samples, images or catalogues, please don't hesitate to contact us.

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Christmas cometh

Now that Christmas is almost upon us we are getting a lot of orders for our wonderful Christmas card range. If you are thinking about stocking your shop with lovely Pomegranate Christmas cards (and hopefully our designer gift wrap too) please be aware that as we have been taking Christmas card orders since March the following titles are now sold out...

C607 Saishoin Temple
C687 Kliban Nose
C690 Kliban Star
C691 Kliban/Rats
C693 FLW NEW
C757 Hanukkah Candles
C762 Bearden
C774 Housetops
C768 Snow NEW
C769 Keena Crossing
C773 1St Snow
C793 The Harbinger
C860 Heronim Skaters
C878 Winter NEW
C883 Snow Valley NEW
C883 White Pastures
C894 Trees NEW
C917 Baxter Dark Forces
C918 Baxter
SC3118 Brown Bear
SC3126 Horned Owl
SC3157 Sleeping Elk
SC3175 Jacquemain Trees
SC3180 Aspen/Hoarfrost
X656 Japanese Visions
X843 Winter Landscapes

If you haven't seen our Christmas card range yet please get in touch with me to request a catalogue by email on - Danielr@pomeurope.co.uk

Back again after 25 years...

It's with great pleasure that I inform you about our new re-release. Available now is the 25th anniversary edition of "The Art of Robert Bateman". The original was Bateman's first ever best selling book back in 1981, and to celebrate his work we have published this 25th anniversary edition.

Within the 180 pages of this beautiful volume you'll find almost 200 illustrations, paintings, photos, and even photos of Bateman himself painting his wonderful natural scenes. All of the images are accompanied by the artist's recollections and observations plus an introduction by Roger Tory Peterson.

The Art of Robert Bateman is available now
RRP: £25
ISBN: 978-0-7649-3765-1
Order Code - A131

August 2006 launch list now online!

We aim to keep our catalogue fresh at all times and to keep up to date with the industry. Therefore, we launch a set of new products three times a year, in August, January and May.

We've seen a lot of interest in this years January and May launches, and we're hoping that the August launch will be received the same way.

As per the title, the full list of new products can now be seen on our website...
http://pomegranate.stores.yahoo.net/au20pu.html

Please bear in mind that although you can see the whole range on our online catalogue, you will need to get in touch with us here at Pomegranate Europe in the UK to order.

What a Selection!

For those of you that are new to the world of Pomegranate I have complied a list showing all of the product lines that we publish plus the artists who's works you'll find decorating them.

We produce the following lines, all to museum standard quality, and supply them to various retailers all over Europe.

Within our range you will find...

Address books

Birthday Books

Bookmarks

Books

Boxed Note Card Sets

Calendars

Christmas Cards

Diaries

Divination / Religious gifts

Jigsaw Puzzles

Journals

Knowledge Cards

Mouse Pads

Note Cards (blank inside)

Note Card Folios

Postcards

Postcard Books

Posters - NEW

Stationery / Writing Sets

We publish many works by the following artists, printed on the above products. This list is just a small selection of the most well known artists, photographers and architects that we publish...

Edward Gorey

Susan Seddon Boulet

Frank Lloyd Wright

R. Kliban

M.C. Escher

Georgia O'Keefe

Vincent Van Gogh

Norman Rockwell

Maxfield Parrish

Elizabeth Murray

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Wolf Kahn

Edward Hopper

John William Waterhouse

Claude Monet

Gustav Klimt

Cezanne

Basquiat

Rothko

Gustave Baumann

Shan Kelly Cecilio

Plus many, many more!

On top of our artist specific products we also produce a great range of ecological, environmental, botanical and educational products ranging from our Rock and Roll Knowledge cards collection (4 titles) to our brand new Herbal Journal and our consistant top seller, the ECOlogical wall calendar.

As usual, if you'd like a catalogue please drop me a line.

Christmas! Already?

It may be summer for everyone else, and a hot one at that, but we in the giftware / publishing industry are already thinking about Christmas! It's for that reason that I'd like to remind everyone that Pomegranate Europe, as of this year, now imports the Pomegranate Christmas card range into the UK and Europe.

Although the range has only been available over here for the last couple of months, we have already had a superb response from our clients. The reasons that most clients give for their interest in the range is that it's different, quirky, and that bit more special when compared to the run of the mill Christmas cards available.

Below you will see a selection of our Christmas card range. The range includes hundreds of Christmas cards, featuring a huge variety of fine art, comic art, modern art and nature photography, all in a festive style.

We have plenty of Christmas card catalogues and would love to send you one. Please get in touch with us by comment / email / msn if you'd like a catalogue.

Van Gogh @ The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh

Our friends at the Nation Galleries of Scotland have just opened an exhibition celebrating the great Van Gogh. The exhibition is in the Dean Gallery on Belford road, Edinburgh between the 7th of July and 24th of September.

Not only will you be able to admire the museums outstanding collection of Van Gogh works, but you will also be able to purchase a selection of our Van Gogh products from the gift store.

We have supplied the NGS with a myriad of Notecards, Postcards, Bookmarks, and they will also have some of the very first 2007 Pomegranate Calendars to arrive in the country! (Only the Van Gogh ones though)

Remember, if you'd like any of our catalogues, including our 2007 calendar offering*, please drop me a line.


*Our calendars are available direct to the public.

Harrogate Home & Gift Show

We will be exhibiting at the Harrogate Home & Gift fair (16th - 19th July) for the first time ever this year! You can always see us at the NEC's Spring Fair or at the London Book Fair, but this year we've added Harrogate to our schedule.

If you have the chance, please drop in and visit. If your already going to the show then be sure to check out Stand F12, where our Sales & Marketing Director, Ley Bricknell will be available to show you not only our new product from our January and May launches, but a whole host of top sellers and other classic Pomegranate products.

If your heading to Harrogate next week, we look forward to seeing you.

Welcome to The Pomlog

Hello, and welcome to our new blog.

Over the coming weeks this will become the place to come to find out anything you need to know about Pomegranate and our products. In this blog we will be listing our new products as they are released plus any important or interesting information on our current range. To check out our full range you might want to look on our main company website, www.pomegranate.com, or you can request our catalogues (just drop me an email) .

We will be posting here as often as we can, and will post with anything we think you'd like to know, plus any deals or offers we are running. So check back soon!

Please feel free to leave any comments or queries you may have.

Here is just a taster of the products in our May launch, these are available to order now. The full launch list is coming soon!