Books By Kate Friend - Author

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She is the author of six books, including The Lonely City and Everybody. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Her books have been translated into 19 languages and her first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She has written catalogue essays on a variety of contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Derek Jarman and Wolfgang Tillmans. Her collected essays on art, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, were published in 2020. Her new book, The Garden against Time, is about gardens and paradise and will be published in 2024. 

Christopher Woodward is Director of the Garden Museum in London, which has a collection and exhibition programme dedicated to the relationship between art and the garden. He was previously Director of the Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, and a curator at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, and is a former trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund.