by Alan Peart | Jul 3, 2014 | the gallery of vanished husbands, writer pontification
I particularly like this photograph of the two iconic painters. We see Lucian Freud’s unkempt studio – paint-dashed floor and walls and we are coming in at the end of the story. Presumably Freud has spent months capturing Hockney. In the photograph Hockney plays the...
by Alan Peart | Jun 30, 2014 | from summerhouse to summer read, inspiration, the gallery of vanished husbands
The Situation Group by Sylvia Sleigh Now this is exactly how I imagine Juliet to be, surrounded by the artists she nurtures and admires – often a lone woman amid a sea of men. Like the fictional artists in ‘The Gallery of Vanished Husbands’ the artists depicted in...
by Alan Peart | Jun 20, 2014 | from summerhouse to summer read, inspiration, the gallery of vanished husbands
My third novel ‘The Gallery of Vanished Husbands’ tells the life story of Juliet Montague and her emergence from a conservative Jewish upbringing to the heart of ‘60s London and it’s thriving art scene, through a series of portraits of Juliet, each chapter of the...
by Alan Peart | Jun 16, 2014 | inspiration, the gallery of vanished husbands
I’ve now written three novels (that’s three if you don’t count the awful one lurking in a box beneath the bed—we don’t have monsters living in our house, we have failed novels). I suppose that means I should have some confidence as I know, if nothing else, how to...
by Alan Peart | Jun 11, 2014 | dorset life, from summerhouse to summer read, inspiration, the gallery of vanished husbands
In fact it’s out next week on June 19th and to celebrate I’m doing a couple of events here in Dorset. I’ll be at Winstone’s bookshop in Sherborne on Thursday June 19th at 6.30 pm (see the flier below) and at Gullivers’ in Wimborne on the...
by Alan Peart | Nov 11, 2013 | the gallery of vanished husbands, Uncategorized
I’ve been on my travels with Mr S and Little S for the last month or so. We’ve been to Frinton in Essex and up to Glasgow… Tomorrow, I’ll be on twitter at 6.pm UK time and 1.30pm EST with the Jewish Council Book Council and Jewcy.com talking about...
