A Life Of Picasso: Volume III The Triumphant Years 1917-1932
by John Richardson (Cape) price £30
Great Collectors Of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945
by James Stourton (Scala) price £45
Klimt
edited by Alfred Weidinger (Prestel) price £89
King Tutankhamun: The Treasures Of The Tomb
by Zahi Hawass (Thames & Hudson) £39.99
History Books:
Lady Antonia Fraser's favourite history books of the year:
The Perilous Crown: Ruling France 1814-1848
Munro Price (Macmillan)
Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life
Sofka Zinovieff (Granta Books)
Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier
Charles Spencer (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
A History of Histories
John Burrow (Allen Lane)
Fateful Choices
Ian Kershaw (Allen Lane)
Non-UK Monica Ali's choice of novels by non-British writers:
Cormac McCarthy - The Road (Picador)
Joshua Ferris - Then We Came to the End (Viking)
Nathan Englander - The Ministry of Special Cases (Faber & Faber)
Don DeLillo - Falling Man (Picador)
Crime Fiction: Crime specialist Jeff Park's pick of this year's crime fiction:
Michael Dibdin – End Games (Faber and Faber)
Michele Giuttari – A Florentine Death (Abacus)
Martha Grimes – Dust (Viking)
Åsa Larsson – The Blood Spilt (Delacorte)
Laura Lippman – What the Dead Know (Orion)
Ian Rankin – Exit Music (Orion)
Matt Rees – The Bethlehem Murders (Atlantic)
Grace Brophy – The Last Enemy (Soho Crime)
Colin Cotterill – Anarchy and Old Dogs (Soho Crime)
Peter James – Not Dead Enough (Pan Books)
Martin O’Brien – Jacquot and the Fifteen (Headline)
Qiu Xiaolong – A Case of Two Cities (St Martin’s Minotaur)
Front Row's seasonal book suggestions for gift giving and reading over Christmas and the holidays.
