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      Leviathan

      Philip Hoare

      The story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey.

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      Albert & the Whale

      Philip Hoare

      A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022

      ‘This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into…

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      Pet Shop Boys Volume

      Chris Heath, Libby Sellers, Philip Hoare

      Marking the fortieth anniversary of the duo's first release--"West End Girls"--Pet Shop Boys Volume presents the group's entire visual output to date in a contemporary literary format.

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      Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Durer and How Art Imagines Our World

      Philip Hoare

      An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale. In 1520, Albrecht Durer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe…

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      Noel Coward

      Philip Hoare

      To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter and filmmaker Noel Coward was the very personification of wit, glamour and elegance. This biography was written with unprecedented access to the private papers…

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      Wilde’s Last Stand: Scandal, Decadence and Conspiracy During the Great War

      Philip Hoare

      Wilde’s Last Stand tells of transvestites in the trenches, of drug clubs in London, and of Oscar Wilde in a bitter battle to maintain his reputation. Revealing and chilling, this…

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      The Sea Inside

      Philip Hoare

      A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for ‘Leviathan’.

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      Look Again: The Sea

      Philip Hoare

      Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to…

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      Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital

      Philip Hoare

      The story of Netley in Southampton - its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley’s links with…

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      Risingtidefallingstar: In Search of the Soul of the Sea

      Philip Hoare

      Hoare brings readers on a journey in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Along the way, he encounters drowned poets and eccentric artists, modernist writers and era-defining…

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      The Whale

      Philip Hoare

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      The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea

      Philip Hoare

      In the tradition of the bestselling Cod and The Secret Life of Lobsters, a lively, prizewinning travelogue through the history, literature, and lore of the king of the sea: the…

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      Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping

      Derek Jarman

      Written in 1971 and published here for the first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman’s only piece of narrative fiction; a surreal, fable-like, lyrical…

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      Tania Kovats

      Jeremy Millar,Philip Hoare

      After completing her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1990, Tania Kovats (b.1966) won the Barclays Young Contemporaries award at the Serpentine Gallery in 1991. The intervening years…

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      Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit

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      The British political system is running on empty. Its ruling elite has emerged from the long Brexit crisis apparently just as clueless and incompetent as it was before. Why is…

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      Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Br exit

      Cunliffe

      The British political system is running on empty. Its ruling elite has emerged from the long Brexit crisis apparently just as clueless and incompetent as it was before. Why is…

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      Ellen Gallagher with Edgar Cleijne: A Law … a Blueprint … a Scale

      Recent solo and collaborative works from an artist known for her collage aesthetic

      New York-based artist Ellen Gallagher (born 1965) makes collage-like works that use repetition and revision, drawing from…

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