The Strand's 80th Anniversary Best-Seller List
The Strand is celebrating 80 years as the reigning king of indepent book sellers, and boy did they get rowdy for their birthday bashment: they announced their customers' Top 80 books. Hide the vodka!
Who made the top 10? Well, the usuals but J.K. Rowling was robbed by Ayn Rand! Add these to cart:
- To Kill a Mockingbird by
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Pride and Prejudice by
- Great Gatsby by
- Catcher in the Rye by
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Marilyn Revisited
By the end of the 1970s, Andy Warhol was everywhere.He was endemic, up there with Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola. His silkscreen aesthetic was instantly recognisable - the Warhol look had been used on album covers, in ads and on the cover of Time magazine. Read More »
Bacon By Freud
Lucian Freud first met Francis Bacon in 1945. He had heard about this mysterious and distinctive artist from Graham Sutherland.Within a short time, Sutherland had arranged for both artists to join him for a weekend at his home in the country, and they met at the station on the way there.
Read More »Domestic Meditations
The deceptive simplicity and rigour of Giorgio Morandi’s Natura morta, painted circa 1948, was reflected in the artist’s own life. Stories of his hermit-like existence are legion and have become legendary as the artist is conjured up in our imaginations in his cell-like studio in Bologna, alone save for his ever-increasing array of vases and old bottles.
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