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The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years is the most complete telling of his life and times to date.

The fullest, most textural, most accurate--most human--account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life--based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde."--Evening Standard "The best book of the year, perhaps the decade."--A. N. Wilson, Times Literary SupplementDrawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first d...

The finest modern biography of the draughtsman and aesthete who revolutionised English art in six short years.

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This major biography of the Irish literary titan mines the comedy and tragedy of the work and the life, drawing unprecedentedly on the full transcript of Wilde's libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

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Shelf Obsession presents the work of ground-breaking British digital-printmaker Phil Shaw.

The story of what Rome's visitors have looked at over the past two thousand years: the buildings, the statues, the paintings, the artefacts that have most impressed each generation of travellers from the time of the Roman Republic in the second century BC up to the present age of mass tourism.

Abigail McLellan (1969-2009) is known for her pared-down images that were set against richly -worked backgrounds of saturated colour. This book, the first monograph on the artist, charts the career of a painter of indomitable spirit and unbounding creative energy.

Peter Clark's collage's start with a scavenger trip to antiques fairs, flea markets and second hand stores to find the right objects to inspire his works. His most recognized pieces are the series of Dogs, from Spaniels to Bulldogs, and Clothes, from a dress out of old Ordnance Survey maps to a Hell's Angels jacket made of old bible and prayers books.Paperwork presents the working methods of this eccentric and unique artist, showing the progre...

The finest modern biography of the draughtsman and aesthete who revolutionised English art in six short years.

Matthew Sturgis examines the varying extents to which ambitious poets, penurious painters, canny publishers and a controversialist press all conspired to promote the notion of decadence in the 1890s.

The first major life of the outstanding British painter - and Jack the Ripper suspect - Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley.

An illustrated history and portrait of the Jerwood Foundation which is a major UK funder of arts, education and science.