James Stourton is an excellent art historian and brilliant storyteller; a heady combination that makes Rogues & Scholars the must-read art book of the year.

Will Gompertz

A perceptive, authoritative and highly readable account of the golden age of the British art market.

Philip Hook

With panache and characteristically elegant penmanship, James Stourton throws open the doors to a riveting chapter in the history of art in which glamorous eccentricities, serious scholarship and a good deal of swindling cohabit... Stourton brings us a gripping and thoroughly researched chronicle of the post-war art market, punctuated with the occasional 'you couldn't make this up' moment. Rogues & Scholars is just as entertaining as it is educational.

Wolf Burchard

Riveting and gossipy

Laura Freeman, The Times *Books of the Year*

An erudite and authoritative history of the London art market from World War II to our century. Outstanding in its own field, Rogues and Scholars nears Anthony Bourdain's tell-all Kitchen Confidential.

New York Times Book Review

Praise for James Stourton's Heritage:

[A] huge, energetic and tightly written tome on the two-and-half-century history of conservation battles in our homeland... A masterful, dynamic and extremely readable survey of one the major issues of our times. Or all times

Literary Review