Showing results by publisher "Apollo" in Art & Literature

Bloomsbury presents Oscar by Matthew Sturgis, read by Jot Davies. The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to date. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade' TLS 'Simply the best...

Bloomsbury presents Relative Failures, written and read by Matthew Sturgis. History remembers the greats – but what about those who lived alongside them? In the cultural ferment of late nineteenth-century London, three fascinating but often overlooked figures navigated the world in the shadow...

Bloomsbury presents Gauguin and Polynesia written and read by Nicholas Thomas. The Post-Impressionist artist and writer Paul Gauguin led an extraordinary, troubled and restlessly itinerant life; he came late to painting and spent most of his last decade in the Pacific islands of Tahiti and the...

'Paul Morley is my kind of critic.' - Grace Jones From the swimming pools of Los Angeles to the hills of Yorkshire, from the bright light of California to the changing skies of Normandy, David Hockney spent a lifetime seeing the world differently. One of the most celebrated and influential...

The Bloomsbury Group of influential British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, whose most prominent members were Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keyes and Roger Fry, has starkly divided opinion ever since its lofty...

Bloomsbury presents The Story of Tudor Art by Christina J. Faraday, read by Ffion Aynsley. A unique history of Tudor England told through its art and artefacts. The Tudor dynasty (1485–1603) gave England five monarchs and an age of relentless power plays, scandal, and transformation. Thanks to...

Bloomsbury presents A Life in Fifty Books, written and read by Anthony Cheetham. 'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there’s Anthony Cheetham.' Richard Dawkins In November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and a Norwegian...