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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
    Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - by Alison Bechdel

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529116168 | ISBN 10: 1529116163

    Fun Home is a fresh and brilliantly told memoir marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst and great books. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, obsessiv ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lust For Life by Irving Stone
    Lust For Life - by Irving Stone

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781787461390 | ISBN 10: 1787461394

    Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh.   “Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world… He was a co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
    Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo - by Hayden Herrera

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781526605313 | ISBN 10: 1526605317

    Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was the victim of an accident that left h ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Life by Marc Chagall
    My Life - by Marc Chagall

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241331415 | ISBN 10: 0241331412

    'Here is my soul. Look for me here; here I am, here are my pictures, my roots'  Marc Chagall, one of the twentieth century's most popular artists, grew up in a close-knit, bustling Russian-Jewish community, the son of a herring seller. In his col ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frida Kahlo: The Story of Her Life by Vanna Vinci
    Frida Kahlo: The Story of Her Life - by Vanna Vinci

    £19.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9783791383880 | ISBN 10: 3791383884

    The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo’s brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful.   In this illustrated “biography”, Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo’s world in boldly colored, minutely detailed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz
    Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration - by David Wojnarowicz

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786890276 | ISBN 10: 1786890275

    I am glad I am alive to witness these things; giving words to this life of sensations is a relief. Smell the flowers while you can.   Close to the Knives is the artist, writer and activist David Wojnarowicz's extraordinary memoir. Filthy, beau ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vincent by Barbara Stok
    Vincent - by Barbara Stok

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781906838799 | ISBN 10: 1906838798

    A portrait of Van Gogh's turbulent stay in Provence.   Vincent dreams of setting up an artists' house in Arles for himself and his friends. However, his attacks of mental illness confuse and disorient him, culminating in the notorious inciden ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Tibn
    Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar - by Colm Tibn

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330491389 | ISBN 10: 0330491385

    In this perceptive and rich collection of essays Tibn investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth century. In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tibn looks at the life and work of some ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
    The Complete Maus - by Art Spiegelman

    £16.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780141014081 | ISBN 10: 0141014083

    Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captur ... more

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