Art
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
Paperback
From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and...
From Ear to Ear: A Pianist's Love Affair with Song
Hardback
A moving and tartly funny musical memoir both “comic and cosmic” (Adam Gopnik) by an acclaimed pianist, spellbinding storyteller and champion of song
The Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood
Hardback
How a Florentine orphanage rescued thousands of children and revolutionised childhood education amid the splendour of Renaissance art
Making Mary Poppins: The Sherman Brothers, Walt Disney, and the Creation of a Classic Film
Hardback
The surprising story behind Walt Disney’s most successful live-action film
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
Paperback
The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema”