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William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love

Philip Hoare

From the acclaimed author of Albert and the Whale, a revelatory and joyous meditation on the iconic William Blake. William Blake is one of the greatest artists in western history…

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Wilde’s Last Stand: Scandal, Decadence and Conspiracy During the Great War

Philip Hoare

Wilde’s Last Stand tells of transvestites in the trenches, of drug clubs in London, and of Oscar Wilde in a bitter battle to maintain his reputation. Revealing and chilling, this…

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Noel Coward

Philip Hoare

To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter and filmmaker Noel Coward was the very personification of wit, glamour and elegance. This biography was written with unprecedented access to the private papers…

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Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Durer and How Art Imagines Our World

Philip Hoare

An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale. In 1520, Albrecht Durer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe…

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Risingtidefallingstar: In Search of the Soul of the Sea

Philip Hoare

Hoare brings readers on a journey in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Along the way, he encounters drowned poets and eccentric artists, modernist writers and era-defining…

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Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century

Philip Hoare

Biographer and historian Philip Hoare describes the full drama of the Billing trial of 1918 after the first production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome –

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Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital

Philip Hoare

The story of Netley in Southampton - its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley’s links with…

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Look Again: The Sea

Philip Hoare

Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to…

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Albert & the Whale

Philip Hoare

An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan, or The Whale.

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Albert & the Whale

Philip Hoare

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022

‘This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into…

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Leviathan

Philip Hoare

The story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey.

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The Sea Inside

Philip Hoare

A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for ‘Leviathan’.

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The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea

Philip Hoare

In the tradition of the bestselling Cod and The Secret Life of Lobsters, a lively, prizewinning travelogue through the history, literature, and lore of the king of the sea: the…

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Risingtidefallingstar: In Search of the Soul of the Sea

Philip Hoare

Hoare brings readers on a journey in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Along the way, he encounters drowned poets and eccentric artists, modernist writers and era-defining…

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Ellen Gallagher - Accidental Records

Philip Hoare, Adrienne Edwards

Accidental Records includes new paintings and drawings by Ellen Gallagher (born 1965) that continue her exploration of the complex histories of the Black Atlantic and the afterlives of the Middle…

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Tania Kovats

Jeremy Millar,Philip Hoare

After completing her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1990, Tania Kovats (b.1966) won the Barclays Young Contemporaries award at the Serpentine Gallery in 1991. The intervening years…

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Gabriel Orozco

Philip Hoare,Mark Godfrey

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Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping

Derek Jarman

Written in 1971 and published here for the first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman’s only piece of narrative fiction; a surreal, fable-like, lyrical…

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Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit

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"Why we need to overhaul the British state to make a democratic post-Brexit UK function"--

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Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Br exit

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"Why we need to overhaul the British state to make a democratic post-Brexit UK function"--

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Ellen Gallagher with Edgar Cleijne: A Law … a Blueprint … a Scale

Recent solo and collaborative works from an artist known for her collage aesthetic

New York-based artist Ellen Gallagher (born 1965) makes collage-like works that use repetition and revision, drawing from…

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