
Vanishing Man
*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*
*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2016*
"The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant reconstruction of an art controversy, but it is also a homage to the art of Velázquez, written by a critic who remains spellbound by his genius, as readers will be spellbound by this book" - Colm Tóibín
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came acr...
*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*
*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2016*
"The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant reconstruction of an art controversy, but it is also a homage to the art of Velázquez, written by a critic who remains spellbound by his genius, as readers will be spellbound by this book" - Colm Tóibín
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came acr...