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Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England, 1690-1730

By Christopher Ridgway, Robert Williams, Kerry Downes (University of Reading)

The Joke's Over

By Ralph Steadman

This Young Monster

By Charlie Fox

From Purgatory to Paradise: An Oral History of Artist Han Meilin from the Cultural Revolution to the Present Day

By Feng Jicai

Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence

By Ross King

William Morris at Home

By David Rodgers

The Man Who Moved the World: Life and Work of Mohamed Amin

By Bob Smith, Salim Amin, Michael Buerk

A Little Art Education

By Lynn Barber

Van Gogh

By De Leeuw Ronald

Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

By Claire Dederer

Anansi's Gold: The man who swindled the world

By Yepoka Yeebo

Casals and the Art of Interpretation

By David Blum

The Queen: The gripping true tale of a villain who changed history

By Josh Levin

The Faculty of Dreams: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019

By Sara Stridsberg, Deborah Bragan-Turner

The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us

By Chimene Suleyman

Four Seasons in Rome

By anthony-doerr

The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us

By Chimene Suleyman

Kirchner: On the Edge of the Abyss of Time

By Norbert Wolf

Lempicka

By Gilles Neret

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way: Discover the 1960s trend for buying land on a Greek island and building a house. How hard could it be...?

By Nancy Spain

War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein: Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry

By Lindy Woodhead

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

By Sarah Knights

Philip Guston

By Musa Mayer

A Balkan Summer

By George East

Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

By Various

Beyonce

By Tshepo Mokoena

The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller

By Jon Lys-Turner

Cat Chat

By Helene Thornton

From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

By Jeffrey E. Garten

My Father's Places

By Aeronwy Thomas