Tiepolo Blue – James Cahill

***OUT NOW: James Cahill“s new novel THE VIOLET HOUR***SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS“ CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD“Divine . . . the smart, sexy read you need“ Evening Standard“Startlingly impressive“ Daily Mail“An electric new novel“ GuardianExiled 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.Intense and atmospheric, Tiepolo Blue traces Don“s turbulent awakening, and his desperate flight from art into life.“Wildly enjoyable . . . A novel that combines formal elegance with gripping storytelling“ Financial Times“Dizzying and exciting and unsettling, and beautifully told“ Reverend Richard Coles, Daily Mail