James Stourton is an excellent art historian and brilliant storyteller; a heady combination that makes Rogues & Scholars the must-read art book of the year.

Will Gompertz

A perceptive, authoritative and highly readable account of the golden age of the British art market.

Philip Hook

With panache and characteristically elegant penmanship, James Stourton throws open the doors to a riveting chapter in the history of art in which glamorous eccentricities, serious scholarship and a good deal of swindling cohabit... Stourton brings us a gripping and thoroughly researched chronicle of the post-war art market, punctuated with the occasional 'you couldn't make this up' moment. Rogues & Scholars is just as entertaining as it is educational.

Wolf Burchard

Riveting and gossipy

Laura Freeman, The Times *Books of the Year*

Praise for James Stourton's Heritage:

[A] huge, energetic and tightly written tome on the two-and-half-century history of conservation battles in our homeland... A masterful, dynamic and extremely readable survey of one the major issues of our times. Or all times

Literary Review

It not only covers the conservation and protection of our buildings and landscapes, but also the wider cultural aspects

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