Thank you. Not sure, but someone could read it to them and it would come into its own later.

Will look out for this for a Christmas present. Would you say more suitable for an eleven year old, twelve next summer, or a seven year old, eight next summer?

NEW BOOK: my first children's book is out this week. It's an encyclopedia of Europe for 8-12s.

I reviewed the new Renoir exhibition at the National Gallery. I see it has polarised opinion elsewhere - high praise from male reviewers for The Guardian/Telegraph and terrible reviews from female reviewers at The Times/Observer. I found plenty to enjoy, with a few caveats.

'A Blue Room in Kensington' (c.1930) by James Durden (Christchurch Art Gallery)

"Wilson skilfully pulls together what the more independent-thinking cultural commentators have been writing for years". Richard Morrison, The Times. Out tomorrow.

I reviewed the new Renoir exhibition at the National Gallery. I see it has polarised opinion elsewhere - high praise from male reviewers for The Guardian/Telegraph and terrible reviews from female reviewers at The Times/Observer. I found plenty to enjoy, with a few caveats.

I review the National Gallery blockbuster "Renoir and Love" and ask, is it really about love? Plenty to enjoy though...

Publication day for my new book is Friday but pre-orders are already arriving with readers! "Admirably spirited" - Dominic Sandbrook "Passionate, lucid and inspiring" - Amanda Craig "A brave and necessary book" - Richard Bratby

Thank you!

Book number seven is here and very pretty! This one is a new departure for me. It ranges widely across music, galleries and museums, theatre, film, TV, access, funding and education and helps the general reader understand the heated debates taking place around the arts today.

I did. Been commissioned to write something on it - just finished that off.

Book number seven is here and very pretty! This one is a new departure for me. It ranges widely across music, galleries and museums, theatre, film, TV, access, funding and education and helps the general reader understand the heated debates taking place around the arts today.

I’ve just discovered that The Illustrated Police News continued into the 1930s as an even more lurid version of the Victorian original. So let’s share some no context badly-drawn sensationalism! First up, ‘ZOO OWNER ATTACKED BY PET BEAR AT SEVENOAKS’, 26 June 1930.