Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Andrew Graham-Dixon ...

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings ...

Reviews of four tomes ideal for your coffee table – and for perusing during holiday downtime

Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders Rory Stewart (Jonathan ...

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

Vincent van Gogh made sunflowers his personal motifs, but, when he looked to experiment with colour, a full florist’s roster of irises, roses, poppies, poured out of his brush, as Michael Prodger discovers