Featuring 450 full-color photos and 241 of the world's foremost narrative jewellery makers, this book showcases the best of what today's makers, ranging from newly graduated students to the luminaries of the jewellery world, have to offer us: jewellery that's designed to evoke a range of thoughts and feelings. Do you have a piece of jewellery that offers a story? What story does the jewelry we own or desire tell? Why are you attracted to some pieces, but repelled by others? The answers unfold in this contemporary compendium, also featuring a foreword by jewellery professor and expert Jack Cunningham, PhD, and text by artists Jo Pond and Dauvit Alexander (The Justified Sinner). The makers and images selected for this book are a broad representation of the genre of narrative jewellery, and offer a fascinating look for anyone who wears, collects, or has an interest in jewellery or design. AUTHOR: Mark Fenn is a maker and curator of narrative jewellery. He has been making for over thirty years and holds a degree in silversmithing and jewellery design from the University of the Creative Arts UK. SELLING POINTS: . Showcases the best of narrative jewelry by 241 makers from around the world . Includes makers ranging from newly graduated students to the luminaries of the jewellery world . Love, life, death, and a "Sexually Promiscuous Marsupial"...narrative jewellery offers it all 450 colour images