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Robert Tanitch reviews books about David Hockney, Barbara Hepworth, The Nile, Michael Pennington and Hamilton, the musical.

SPRING CANNOT BE CANCELLED by David Hockney and Martin Gayford (Thames & Hudson). Hockney takes a Normandy farmhouse during the COVID-19 lockdown and observes in drawing and painting the changing ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews books about Napoleon, Isaac Newton, David Storey and Denis King

NAPOLEON’S PLUNDER AND THE THEFT OF VERONESE’S FEAST by Cynthia Saltzman (Thames & Hudson). Napoleon transformed a former palace of French kings into the greatest museum in the world by looting on ...

andrew 836 views 0 likes May 7, 2021

Robert Tanitch reviews books for travellers, cinemagoers and fans of Kenneth More

UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEYS (Dorling Kindersley). And how are you going to spend your summer holidays? It looked for a time the best we could hope for during pandemic lockdown was armchair travel and dream ...

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The crime novel that made Obama’s top 10 best reads in 2020.

Long Bright River by Liz Moore (published by Windmill Books, paperback pp 448) That Liz Moore’s Long Bright River is on Barack Obama’s list of 2020’s best reads is not surprising. On his list, there a ...

andrew 815 views 0 likes Mar 2, 2021