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A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-st...

Product Description Francis Bacon was one of most elusive and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. However much his avowed a...

'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' Grayson Perry This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by ...

Product Description 7 Reece Mews, South Kensington, was Francis Bacon's home and studio for over thirty years. After he died in 1992, access was ...

'A wild, darkly comic nightmare set on the borderlines of creativity, imagination and madness.' Guardian 'Thompson's prose, contaminated by Bacon'...

This text presents a discussion of duration and anomaly within the aesthetic parameters of the Italian and British avant-garde, which throughout th...

Review Henry expounds his case with the contagious, even bullish, enthusiasm of the committed teacher, and the book is carefully pitched at an int...

Review The best account I have read of how we reached this point ... a wealth of insights worthy of the greatest writers about democracy -- David ...

The classic, haunting tale of two brave children lost in an eerie and dangerous forest, reimagined by literary legends: Stephen King and Maurice S...

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy is a timeless tale set in the pastoral landscape of rural England. The narrative follows Bathsheba Everd...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is a poignant exploration of a young woman's struggle against societal expectations and personal misfortu...

A pilot stranded in the lonely expanse of the Sahara Desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "...