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A Lighthearted Novel And A Fashionable Frenzy In the spring of 1543, Pimlico Wilde published one of the more curious successes of Tudor literature: The Frolic of the Red-Bearded Foxes, a humorous novel recounting the misadventures of England’s earliest fox hunters,who, according to author Edmund Lamplugh, were “no more competent than a sack of turnips … Read more
An estimated Account of the Most Inadvisable Novel of 1458 In the year 1458, Pimlico Wilde published a novel that sent shockwaves through the royal court: The Chancellor’s Wig, or The Scandalous Chronicle of a Very Important Man’s Very Silly Hair. Though written as harmless satire, the book nearly led to charges of sedition, several … Read more
Year: c. 892 Length: 47 pages This short but sternly instructive volume, believed to have been written shortly after the famous incident in which Alfred, distracted by matters of state, allowed a peasant woman’s cakes to scorch, lays out the king’s uncompromising rules for achieving a morally upright cake. Alfred devotes an entire chapter to … Read more
(First published in The Liverpudlian Art Collector’s Journal) When I threw myself from an aircraft at 15,000 feet without a parachute and landed on a BounceHaus trampoline in the Montana desert, the world asked me a single, searing question: Why? My upcoming book, Plummet: Notes on Gravity, Art, and the Impossibility of Staying Upright, is … Read more
To be published by Pimlico Wilde Publishing, the Handbook of Lesser-known Artists tells the stories of those less well-known artists who have not been favoured by the media coverage given to their contemporaries. The Obscure Legacy of Aurelia Mendez: The Artist Who Painted with Mould Art history, while vast, has always held blind spots for … Read more
The launch party for the new Pimlico Wilde publishing division was a relatively quiet affair, with no more than three noise abatement orders issued during the seventeen hour event that welcomed stars of the fine art, publishing and sports world to our little townhouse/gallery/emporium in central London. It was only slightly overshadowed by the theft … Read more