Chatwin himself insisted, against his editors’ wishes, that The Songlines in particular should be marketed as a work of fiction, despite the sustained anthropological attention accorded in the book to ...

Bruce Chatwin is best known for his adventures in Patagonia, but his art-world exploits were equally exciting. Bruce Chatwin at Sotheby's at age 20, where he quickly rose the ranks to specialist in ...

The tale of the artiste maudit is often spun to inject mystery and intrigue into the lives of great painters, that image of a tortured soul working all hours for peanuts, fingers worn to ...