The spark for this remarkable memoir was a scribbled list of paintings that belonged to the Parisian author’s great-grandparents – Degas, Renoir, Monet, Tiepolo etc – of which she knew nothing. Suspense and sensitivity are finely balanced in this story of expropriation of Jewish property in the Nazi period.
The Vanished Collection
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Edition:Hardback978180328090503/02/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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A gorgeous book on one of the greatest French cabinetmakers of all time, based on the work in the Wallace Collection.
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Lartigue was given his first camera when he was eight. This is a carefully edited collection of pictures from his archive.
Lartigue: The Boy and the Belle Epoque
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These lovely house-blessers are the latest subject for Moss, following his 'Wren' and ' Robin', and a decade after Horatio Clare's glorious 'A Single Swallow'. Illustrated.
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Following the catastrophe in which Henry's heir was drowned, England sank into a terrible civil war in which English, Normans, Scots and Welsh competed in the ancient game of thrones.