Now in paperback, this looks at the modern renaissance in art and literature, from writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, tourists and composers. From Virginia Woolf to Evelyn Waugh, E.M. Forster, Graham Sutherland and John Piper, it celebrates the best artists and writers of the 1930s and 1940s. It won the Guardian First Book Award in 2010. *Also appeared in March Buyer's Notes*