Jeremy Cooper

Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian, author of six previous novels and several works of non-fiction, including the standard work on nineteenth century furniture, studies of young British artists in the 1990s, and, in 2019, the British Museum’s catalogue of artists’ postcards. Early on he appeared in the first twenty-four of BBC’s Antiques Roadshow and, in 2018, won
the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak.

Books in order of publication:

Ruth – 1986

Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors: From the Gothic Art Revival to Art Nouveau – 1987

The folded lie – 1998

Ash before Oak – 2019

The World Exists to Be Put on a Postcard: Artists’ postcards from 1960 to now – 2019

Functional: A NOVEL – 2020

Bolt from the Blue – 2021

Brian – 2023