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Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards 2020 The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’...

George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West", as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a "vanishing race" before their "extermination" - his word - by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over 600 portraits - unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than 30 tribes living along the upper Missouri River.

The riveting life of Dina Vierny, a muse, fearless Nazi resistor, and art collector who dedicated her life to fighting fascism. In the summer of 1940, as France succumbed to Nazi Germany, Dina Vierny posed for famed sculptor Aristide Maillol on the French-Spanish border. Dina was the muse who...

La red infinita retrata, en primera persona, a una mente artística única, atormentada por miedos y obsesiones, pero decidida a alcanzar y mantener su posición al frente de la vanguardia artística mundial. Pintora inconformista, Kusama canaliza sus neurosis obsesivas en un arte que trasciende las barreras culturales.Una vez llegada desde Japón a Nueva York, vive los primeros tiempos en la pobreza, pero pronto se convierte en la reina de la escena artística contracultural, y llega a codearse con artistas como Georgia O'Keeffe o Andy Warhol.