‘Positive, original, diverting and highly effective.’ – Sunday Times
‘This biography achieves that rare distinction of never having a dull page.’ – Independent on Sunday
Emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, Jack Vettriano became Scotland’s most successful and controversial contemporary artist.
*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize*
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A New Yorker Book of the Year
With Christopher Tolkien as your guide, take a tour through this colourful gallery of enchanting art by J.R.R. Tolkien, as published originally in the first groundbreaking Tolkien Calendars of the 1970s.
A major new look at how Africa’s geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is also the story of how it was the crucible for the evolution most extraordinary species on Earth – Homo sapiens.
An artist’s record of the homes of 89 leading creatives from interior designers to ceramicists, antiques dealers, florists and chefs.
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022
‘This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into the natural and unnatural world’ Patti Smith
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**
A hilarious collection of Hercule Van Wolfwinkle’s ‘extremely realistic’ pet portraits. Warning: may not be suitable for anyone who actually likes animals or has the ability to see.
Following the success of A Dog a Day, Sally Muir returns with a collection of new, but crucially old, faces.
‘The beginnings of a bitter-sweet commission: a mistle thrust’s egg, heralding a brief but very welcome return to spring… This year has been in such a hurry, at times almost tripping over itself in its keenness to reach autumn, and now she’s here.’
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.
’A genius book about a bookish genius’ Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
This enthralling and comprehensive new book on Henri Matisse is an eye-opener for all students and art lovers interested in early twentieth-century art.
