Novels inspired by the art world

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How to be Both

Ali Smith

Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real.

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The Death of Noah Glass

Gail Jones

Gail Jones’s mesmerising new novel tells a story about parents and children, it is about love and art, about grief and happiness, about memory and the mystery of time.

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Maestra: The shocking international number one bestseller

LS Hilton

A shockingly original thriller

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The Museum of Modern Love

Heather Rose

Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. A mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection - a meditation on love, art and commitment, set against the backdrop…

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An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War Two, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist, Masuji…

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The Improbability of Love: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016

Hannah Rothschild

A dazzling, witty and tenderly savage satire of London life and the art world that is also a surprising and wonderful love story, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize…

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The Italian Teacher

Tom Rachman

A grand and moving family drama set against the pretention, prestige and pomp of the international art world.

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The Art Forger: A Novel

B. A. Shapiro,B. A. Shapiro

Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his gallery. But as…

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On Beauty

Zadie Smith

Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? This is a story about…

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Cat’s Eye

Margaret Atwood

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the…

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The Biographer’s Lover

Ruby J Murray

The Biographer’s Lover is a novel about Australia’s complex relationship with memory, and the role gender plays in the ways we represent not only national myths but our private versus…

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The War Artist

Simon Cleary

A timely and compelling novel about the legacy of war, the power of art and the possibility of atonement.

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Cairo

Chris Womersley

A summer of liberation leads to a teenage boy becoming caught up in the notorious heist of Picasso’s Weeping Woman.

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Fever of Animals

Miles Allinson

With the inheritance he received upon his father’s death, Miles has come to Europe on the trail of the Romanian surrealist, who disappeared into a forest in 1967. But in…

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The Moon And Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives…

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The Blazing World

Siri Hustvedt

The devilishly playful, intellectually inspiring, emotionally involving new novel from Siri Hustvedt, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

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The Birth Of Venus

Sarah Dunant

Reissued in a new look is this richly imagined historical novel that combines mystery, history, politics and passion in a story of gripping power, from the author of SACRED HEARTS

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Prochownik’s Dream

Alex Miller (Author)

Prochownik’s Dream reveals the inner life of an artist, torn between his obsession with his art and his love of his wife and daughter.

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Girl With a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist’s desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence.

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The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a…

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