This long interview, recorded with the Swiss critic Pierre Courthion when the artist was recovering from an operation in bed during the Nazi Occupation, was never published - until now.
A splendid return to Ibbotson's adored Amazonian world, this time with Rosa, a Kinderstransport child. Many characters from Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea make an appearance too. Carrol... read more
Looks at Jane's contribution too in this extraordinary personal and creative partnership. SFC's earlier book To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters was excellent.
A very clever debut from a distinguished hand in the art world: a Cambridge don rather stuck in his ways is repelled by an outbreak of modern art in his quad. Wafted on a cloud of academic d... read more
A substantial illustrated biography from the former chief curator at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag - home to the world's largest collection of Mondrian works.
An ambitious book that traces the collapse of empires and their ramifications in contemporary Eurasian geopolitics - in particular Iran, China, Turkey and Russia.
Born in Russia, Poplavsky fled to Paris in the Revolution, where he become a literary and artistic enfant terrible of the emigré circles of Montparnasse. This novel, translated into English... read more
The range of Blackburn's books testifies to her profound curiosity about the world. This account of her journey (imaginative as well as physical) among the little-known South African people ... read more
She grew up in Chelsea (indeed her father was a John Sandoe customer); she was a deb in 1958. Then she devoted herself to the IRA and became a terrorist.
Looks at the ways in which artists have perceived, illustrated and used light since the C18th – Turner, Monet, James Turrell, Olafur Elliasson, Tacita Dean, etc.
A rollocking historical novel set in Renaissance Venice: an artist sets his heart on a miraculous new pigment, only to find himself caught up in conspiracies, a love affair, violence, obsess... read more
Against the backdrop of WW2 and its aftermath, a young Italian woman marries and moves to her husband's village in the south. Ginzburg's characteristically limpid prose harbours may details ... read more