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On Chapel Sands - My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**'A modern masterpiece' Guardian Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story. In the autumn of 1929, a small child w ...Show more
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile. Fusing detec ...Show more
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. "The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant reconstruction of an art controversy, but it is also a homage to the art of Velazquez, written by a critic who remains spellbound by his genius, as readers will be spellbound by this book." (Colm Toibin). In 1 ...Show more
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