I Love Dick
by Chris Kraus
Originally published in 1997, I Love Dick has recently been released in the UK for the first time. Kraus meets Dick, a colleague of her husband, at a dinner party and begins to write to him obsessively. A blurring of memoir, fiction and art theory - I Love Dick is a seminal feminist text.
The Blazing World
by Siri Hustvedt
This multi perspective fictional biography of artist Harriet Burden. The biographer explores her life as well as her major, controversial work Maskings, where she completes three exhibitions under the guise of well known male artists. An intelligent and intriguing read.
How to be Both
by Ali Smith
Winner Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Book Award (2014)
Take note of the images on the front and back cover as they are a huge part of the two tales in this book. A clever and fresh approach to fiction, that contains Smith's trademark wit and charm and that is completely deserving of the Baileys and Costa.
The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra
by Pedro Mairal (Translated by Nick Castor)
Argentinian artist Juan Salvatierra has spent his life painting intricate scrolls that are a diary of each year he has lived. After he dies, his sons discover one is missing, endeavouring to find the missing painting and uncover the family secret the scroll holds. A beautiful art mystery.
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2014)
A young boy acquires a very valuable painting in tragic circumstances and keeps this secret as a tribute to his mother.
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