THE POWER OF URBAN SOLITUDE: a writer weaves her memories together with iconic artworks on city loneliness. A MINUS

LONELY CITY: ADVENTURES IN THE ART OF BEING ALONE
Picador USA
2016

THE ELEMENTS OF CREATIVITY explored. Lovely, spare prose! Examples from nature, science, architecture, arts. A MINUS

THE STORM OF CREATIVITY
MIT Press
2015

ENGAGING BIOGRAPHY OF architect, artist, antiquarian Sarah Losh, whose 1840s church in Wreay still delights.

ELOQUENT, COMPASSIONATE WORK by a Polish physician and researcher links medicine with the arts and humanities.

A MAGNIFICENT LOVE LETTER to the city of Venice, in the form of an engaging, richly detailed work of history.

WILD, ROUGH AND TUMBLE memoir by a high-end art forger of his checkered career and jet set life.  Unruly fun!

A US EXPATRIATE’S COMPELLING memoir of how his fascination with antique opium paraphernalia led to addiction.

INCISIVE, DEEPLY PERSONAL reflection on the impact of AIDS and gentrification on New York’s queer avant-garde.

AN ELEGANT COLLAGE OF a memoir from writer, art historian Rosamond Bernier; fun and gossipy about the greats.

FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY, RICH with newly released letters, of Victorian art figure Effie Gray Ruskin Millais.