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The Times chief art critic explores how writing her book Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettles Yard Artists altered her own way of life

Arts Editors Eva Weinstein and Clementine Lussiana sit down with Cambridge creatives at their home studio, a reconverted pub a few miles outside the city, to discuss Kettles Yard, nature, and documenting the e

P-p-pick up a pebble. Feel its weight in your palm. Roll it over under your thumb. Any good? Not sure? Shuck it back on the shingle. Plenty of fish in the sea and more pebbles still on the shore. In The Pebbles on the Beach: A Spotter’s Guide, Clarence Ellis, pebble-spotter par excellence, opens with

Show me your downstairs loo and I will tell you who you are. Better yet, show me your kitchen, bedroom, billiard room and man cave. Can we know a man – or woman – by their house? The ‘footsteps’ approach to biography argues that to really understand a subject, a biographer must visit his childhood

This fabulously detailed biography is a fitting testament to the great collector’s cunning, determination and impeccable taste

The May Art Diary by Rev Jonathan Evens covers new books and selected exhibitions, including Joe Tilson, Jim Ede

Also featuring a biography of Messalina and a story collection by Shalash the Iraqi.

From insights into siblings and anorexia, via the stories of trailblazing women and Boris Johnson’s time at No 10, here are the titles that will define the year<br>