Rose Boyt talks to the Observer about her chaotic childhood, writing truthfully about her dad, and the books she read to him on his deathbed. Her memoir Naked Portrait will be published by Picador on May 30th.
“Naked Portrait explores Boyt’s experience of sitting for her father’s paintings from childhood until her marriage and the power imbalance in their relationship. When Freud died Boyt discovered her old diary from the years 1989 to 1990, she was shocked…”
Following the bestselling Festival of Brexit and A Prat’s Progress, collage superstar Cold War Steve returns with his Journal of the Plague Year. Published by Thames and Hudson in October and on pre-order now…