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James Cahill is a writer and critic based in London who has written for Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, CURA, Elephant, Frieze, The Los Angeles Review of Books, London Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement. In 2017 he completed a PhD at Cambridge University examining the relationship between contemporary art and classical antiquity. Tiepolo Blue is his debut novel, and his second novel, The Violet Hour, will be published in 2025.

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Exiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is immersed in the anarchic art and gay scenes of the mid-90s, Don sees his carefully curated life irrevocably changed.

But his epiphany is also a reckoning, as his unexamined past is revealed to him in a devastating new light.

Death in Venice

By Thomas Mann

Recommended by: James Cahill

Publish Date: 1912

Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon his days…

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The Book and the Brotherhood

By Iris Murdoch

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Publish Date: 1987

It’s the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women – friends since university days – have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. Years earlier the friends…

The Book and the Brotherhood

by Iris Murdoch

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Earthly Powers

By Anthony Burgess

Recommended by: James Cahill

Publish Date: 1980

Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. These two men…

Earthly Powers

by Anthony Burgess

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James Cahill

Explore Tiepolo Blue

James Cahill

Tiepolo Blue

James Cahill

On Writing Fiction

James Cahill

On the Clash Between Classic and Contemporary

James Cahill

On Don Lamb Facing Himself

James Cahill

Reads Tiepolo Blue – SICK BED

Featured book by James Cahill

Tiepolo Blue

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Death in Venice

By Thomas Mann

Death in Venice

The Book and the Brotherhood

By Iris Murdoch

The Book and the Brotherhood

Earthly Powers

By Anthony Burgess

Earthly Powers