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A Novel
by Elizabeth Lowry
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by Walter Isaacson
Published Oct 2018
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by Laura Cumming
Published Nov 2016
Read ReviewsFrom one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story - part art history and part mystery - of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.
by Miles J. Unger
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsThe life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces.
by Peter Carey
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsMichael Boone is an ex"really famous" painter acting as caretaker for his younger brother, a damaged man of childlike emotional volatility. When a mysterious woman comes into their lives, she upsets their delicate equilibrium sets in motion a chain of events that could be the makingor the ruinof them all.
by Edward Dolnick
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsThe little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick's account of the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
The Crimson Petal and The White
by Michel Faber
Published Sep 2003
Read Reviews'Faber's mastery of character, evocative descriptions of Victorian England, and rich dialogue, together with his weaving of enduring themes throughout a complex plot, creates a remarkable novel.'
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