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Looking to Sea

Lily Le Brun

Mothers, Fathers, and Others

Siri Hustvedt

'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I...

Colour

Victoria Finlay

'A rare and wonderful book... I could not be more enthusiastic.' Simon Winchester'A treasure trove of human history and obsession...the breadth of research and insight is dazzling.' Glasgow HeraldColour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how...

Turner

James Hamilton

THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF J.M.W. TURNER, REISSUED TO MARKTHE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH'A pleasure to read' A.S. BYATT'With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character' MIKE LEIGH,...

The Blazing World

Siri Hustvedt

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. Their success seems to prove her...

Strangeland

Tracey Emin

The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory'...