Thunderclap by Lara Cumming (Vintage Publishing, 2024)
Non-Fiction
Thunderclap by Lara Cumming (ISBN: 9781529922530, paperback). Part memoire, part exploration, part philosophy, if you are interested in art and the Dutch Masters (in particular, the painter Carel Fabritius, who died in 1654 when a gunpowder explosion devasted the city of Delft), this could be the book for you. I don’t always agree with the blurb, but on this occasion, I do: ‘This is a book about what a picture may come to mean, how it can enter your life and change your thinking in a thunderclap.’