Tiepolo Blue: 'The best novel I have read for ages' Stephen Fry

James Cahill

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Painting & paintings, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Sceptre
- Paperback Jul 25, 2023 | 9781529369427 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jun 14, 2022 | 9781529369380 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Sep 13, 2022 | 9781529369397 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Jun 9, 2022 | 9781529369403 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback Jul 25, 2023 | 9781529369427 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jun 14, 2022 | 9781529369380 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Sep 13, 2022 | 9781529369397 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Jun 9, 2022 | 9781529369403 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback Jul 25, 2023 | 9781529369427 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jun 14, 2022 | 9781529369380 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Sep 13, 2022 | 9781529369397 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Jun 9, 2022 | 9781529369403 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now

An exquisite debut novel. A mid-life coming-of-age story charting one man's sexual awakening and his spectacular fall from grace in 1990s London, raising questions about art and beauty, sex and censure. For fans of Allan Hollinghurst and Edward St Aubyn.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD

'Divine . . . the smart, sexy read you need' Evening Standard

'Startlingly impressive' Daily Mail

'An electric new novel' Guardian

Exiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is immersed in the anarchic art and gay scenes of the mid-90s, Don sees his carefully curated life irrevocably changed. But his epiphany is also a reckoning, as his unexamined past is revealed to him in a devastating new light.

Intense and atmospheric, Tiepolo Blue traces Don's turbulent awakening, and his desperate flight from art into life.

'Wildly enjoyable . . . A novel that combines formal elegance with gripping storytelling' Financial Times

'Dizzying and exciting and unsettling, and beautifully told' Reverend Richard Coles, Daily Mail

James Cahill

James Cahill is an expert on the influence of Classical antiquity on contemporary art. He has curated exhibitions combining contemporary art and ancient objects at BREESE LITTLE, London (2015) and the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge (2016). Other contributors include Richard Shone, former Editor of The Burlington Magazine, and Helen Luckett, former Curator at the Hayward Gallery, London.