New books

A look at recent book releases, including a work bringing to life Pilkington’s company driving force William Burton

Forget the biblical rain for a while, keep indoors and look forward to these books to bury your head in – with more to follow soon

Crispian Riley-Smith, managing director and CEO of Art Advisory Group, has written a book covering his 30-plus years in the art market.

Writer, journalist and art historian Huon Mallalieu has published a new book and is holding a book launch at the French Protestant Church in Soho Square this week.

Auction house Mitchells in Cockermouth is hosting a book launch on Monday December 8 to mark the publication of a new tome cataloguing the life and work of ‘the Lake District’s most prolific painter’.

From the occult to renaissance treasures and collecting, here we look at a group of recent publications

Marchant Asian Art is under way with its move to its new home in Brook Street, Mayfair (to open in January 2026), and has unveiled details of some of its centenary celebrations.

Christopher Gibbs (1938-2018) was an antiques dealer, collector, tastemaker and socialite, credited with shaping the aesthetic of ‘haute bohemian’ style and whose many friends included Mick Jagger, John Paul Getty, Bruce Chatwin, William Burroughs and Cecil Beaton.

“To the inhabitants of Wyndham Road, an unremarkable cul-desac of bungalows in Andover in Hampshire, Mary Stewart Lockhart, the white-haired old lady in number 5, must have seemed equally unremarkable… None of them could have realised that between the World Wars she had been one of the leading furniture makers, designers and businesswomen in the country.”

To celebrate the centenary of St Ives abstract artist Alexander Mackenzie (1923-2002), Scarborough-based dealer and auctioneer Keith Chapman has recently published the first book on his paintings.

The first dedicated published study on the harvest jug tradition of North Devon and the West Country goes on sale this September.

Lists of artwork by Geoffrey Clarke (1924-2014) can read like a travelogue.