James Cahill
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THE VIOLET HOUR, 2025 @SceptreBooks. TIEPOLO BLUE, 2022. Writing a book on the first Real Housewife of Beverly Hills. Visiting Research Fellow @KingsCollegeLon
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Joined March 2013
“A riveting, immersive journey into the unsettling underbelly of the art world and the people caught in its complex matrix of money, privilege and power.” Delighted to see this preview of THE VIOLET HOUR @thebookseller 🙏 @Laurenrbrown95 — coming 27 February @SceptreBooks 💜⏳
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The fall of Icarus – in south London. Hear me reading the first page of THE VIOLET HOUR, coming 27 Feb @SceptreBooks Art, desire, deceit and the persistence of memory. Pre-order now!
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Art, beauty & betrayal: THE VIOLET HOUR, 27 Feb @SceptreBooks A story about facing up to the past – and the impossibility of going back. Set between London, NY, the tranquillity of Lake Geneva and the fevered glamour of the Venice Biennale. Pre-order 👉
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Holiday flashback: Fantastic to see THE VIOLET HOUR among the books to look out for in 2025 @MailOnline “A story about an elusive abstract artist whose comeback show is marred by the death of a young man” @SceptreBooks 27/2 Pre-order 👉
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I reviewed THE AMERICAN NO, Rupert Everett’s darkly brilliant collection of short stories, for @TheTLS “… a writer undaunted by fashion and supplied by deep wells of inspiration. Even at their most fantastical, Everett’s tales feel like the products of his own life”.
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The full video of my conversation with Seb Patane at #MaureenPaley gallery is now online: We chatted about queer joy, coolness, erotic capital, the uses / abuses of autotune, woke culture and works in progress.
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RT @michaelscaines: Will review the year, eat an orange, read, and go to bed. – EM Forster, Dec 31 1909
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“Thomas Haller’s fame is built on a lie, and it’s about to start unravelling.” Fabulous to see THE VIOLET HOUR among ‘The best books to look out for in 2025’ @Independent in brilliant company 🙏 @Katierosseinsky @SceptreBooks Pre-order 👆
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For the Christmas issue of @TheTLS I reviewed ‘Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men’ @MuseeOrsay – expansive, undogmatic, meticulously staged and paced.
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RT @TheTLS: 'The paintings are vignettes about the imperviousness of other people.' James Cahill (@JamesCahill) on Gustave Caillebotte’s m…
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RT @George_Berridge: The last @TheTLS of 2024, featuring Ian Ground and Simone Gubler on animals and us; @TATFS on Wendy Cope; Marie Darrie…
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@johnhaffenden @gaystheword @JohnSandoe @Dauntbooks @LRBbookshop @GoldsboroBooks @WaterstonesPicc @Foyles @SceptreBooks Thank you John!
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RT @gaystheword: So good of James Cahill to come in with a proof of his hotly anticipated new novel The Violet Hour which is published in F…
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THE VIOLET HOUR: a story of obsession, nostalgia, and the corrosive effects of fame and ambition – coming 27 February 2025 @SceptreBooks 💜⏳ Pre-order now:
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RT @jenny_mustard: As sensuous and glimmering as it’s dark and unsettling, The Violet Hour depicts the art world's many troubling facets: g…
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Wonderful to drop by @HeywoodHill Curzon Street with proof copies of THE VIOLET HOUR for the Christmas Kick-Off / all-day literary salon hosted by Manfred Kuhnert. Signed copies of TIEPOLO BLUE are among Manfred’s Xmas Picks 📚🎄 @SceptreBooks
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