***Pre-order James Cahill''s new novel THE VIOLET HOUR now - coming February 2025***SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS'' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD''Divine . . . the smart, sexy read you need'' Evening Standard''Startlingly impressive'' Daily Mail''An electric new novel'' GuardianExiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is immersed in the anarchic art and gay scenes of the mid-90s, Don sees his carefully curated life irrevocably changed. But his epiphany is also a reckoning, as his unexamined past is revealed to him in a devastating new light.Intense and atmospheric, Tiepolo Blue traces Don''s turbulent awakening, and his desperate flight from art into life.''Wildly enjoyable . . . A novel that combines formal elegance with gripping storytelling'' Financial Times''Dizzying and exciting and unsettling, and beautifully told'' Reverend Richard Coles, Daily Mail