Gavin Evans: The Story of Colour [2017] hardback Condition:New Selling the shoes from the

Selling the shoes from the boot of his Plymouth

War is imminent

Whoopi Goldberg

and the notebook full of poems that she keeps under her bed

Gavin Evans: The Story of Colour [2017] hardback Condition:New Selling the shoes from theWhy is green the colour of envy? Why is black 'evil'? Why is white pure? Why do we 'feel blue' or 'see red'? Why do colours have different meanings for different cultures? When we look at or talk about a colour in a particular setting, we are as likely to see its cultural or symbolic meaning as the shade itself. Why? Sometimes our grasp of a colour relates to the random way we define it. Light blue is called 'blue' but, over the last century or two,