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Wrathful Lucidity: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
"Wolf Hall is the first of Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of wrathfully lucid novels that dramatise the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, and vividly bring to…
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Pure Expression: Matisse's Cut-Outs
"Matisse’s cut-outs were the culmination of his career - an attempt to revisit a lifetime of work; to strip away vestiges of complexity and trauma from…
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Raw Soundscapes: David Bowie in Berlin
"It was the height of the Cold War, and, frozen in time, Berlin was a ghostly wasteland - peppered with bullet-holes and checkpoints, populated by…
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A Portrait of New York: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Like the author of another literary portrait of New York - Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) - Wharton was a brilliant anthropologist.
Dec 17, 2025
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Raw Humanity: The Sculptures of Alberto Giacometti
"Stripped of cultural or historical context, Giacometti's supernaturally tall and spindly figures stand motionless, or eerily drift through space like…
Dec 10, 2025
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Crazy Wisdom: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
"An extraordinary novel. It unearths uncomfortable histories/truths, reconnects us to our emotions, and challenges us to wake up - to become more…
Dec 3, 2025
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Raging Against Indifference: The Outsider by Albert Camus
"Parts of this novel are as viciously lucid as Graham Greene’s tour de force, Brighton Rock, and I love how it jolts us out of self-contented apathy and…
Nov 26, 2025
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A Very British Rebel: The Fashion Designer Vivienne Westwood
"Alongside her meticulous historical research, what fascinates me most about Vivienne Westwood is the theatricality of her designs."
Nov 19, 2025
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