Sebastian Shakespeare

Desmond Morris

James Stourton

Museum of Maniacs

A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now

By James Delbourgo

John Maier

In Mint Condition

Nina Simone’s Gum

By Warren Ellis

Two Hitlers and a Marilyn: An Autograph Hunter’s Escape from Suburbia

By Adam Andrusier

Stuart Hannabuss

Out of Print, Out of Pocket

Andrew Lambirth

A Dealer & A Dandy

Arthur Jeffress: A Life in Art

By Gill Hedley

Peter Davidson

Catholic Tastes

Neil Armstrong

Objects of Little Consequence

In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World

By Simon Garfield

John Martin Robinson

Notes to Shelf

The Country House Library

By Mark Purcell

Michael Hunter

The Whole World in His Hans

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

Tiffany Jenkins

Mad for Marble

Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present

By Erin L Thompson

Charles Elliott

Prime Mover

The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio

By Andrea Mays

James Stourton

Italy in Derbyshire

Renishaw Hall: The Story of the Sitwells

By Desmond Seward

Patricia Fara

A Storehouse of Ideas

Dry Store Room No 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

By Richard Fortey

Andrew Roberts

The Frugality Cipher

A Dynasty of Dealers: John Smith and Successors 1801–1924

By Charles Sebag-Montefiore

Tom Fleming

Painting by Letters

Breakfast at Sotheby’s: An A–Z of the Art World

By Philip Hook

James Stourton

In the Frame

Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade

By Rachel Cohen