The Dark Monarch by Sven Berlin

A thinly-disguised and irreverent portrait of St Ives and the artists and others who lived and worked there, including amongst others Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Bernard Leach, Peter Lanyon, and Patrick Heron. This second edition includes a Foreword by Chris Stephens and illustrations of the “key”, in the author’s hand, written in 1981 but never before published. 246 pages, illustrations (some colour).