Chloë Ashby
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Author of FAMILY FRIENDS (coming 2026), SECOND SELF and WET PAINT. Words on art, books and culture in the Times, Guardian, Spectator, TLS et al.
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Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· Feb 19
Chloë Ashby's 'excruciatingly suspenseful' new novel goes to Fig Tree
Ella Harold, editor at Fig Tree, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Family Friends, the third novel by writer and journalist Chloë Ashby, from Emma Finn at C&W. Fig Tree will publish the novel...
www.thebookseller.com
Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Confessions of obsessive collectors — the history of a mania
Marie Antoinette, Darwin, Freud … and Norman ‘Psycho’ Bates all did it. In A Noble Madness, James Delbourgo charts the changing image of the collector from antiquity to the present
www.thetimes.com
Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· Jun 4
Double rum and hundreds of affairs: life with Gwen and Augustus John
The sibling portrait artists have been re-evaluated since their deaths, says Judith Mackrell in her double biography Artists, Siblings, Visionaries. So who was the greater talent?
www.thetimes.com
Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· May 20
Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely review – joyous show from art’s golden kinetic couple
The married sculptors made very different art – hers curvy and colourful, his rickety and angular – but it all hums with life when brought together
www.theguardian.com
Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· May 15
Breast pumps, babygrows and unfinished drinks: the stunning parenting paintings every mother should see
From intimate panels to breathtakingly cinematic canvases, Caroline Walker explains how she set out to capture the many sides of motherhood, right down to the first nappy change
www.theguardian.com
Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· May 1
The mother of a mystery: Audition, by Katie Kitamura, reviewed
It is remarkable the web Katie Kitamura can spin around a scene as simple as a woman joining a man for lunch. His name is Xavier. We don’t know her name, but we do know she’s a successful actress. He’...
www.spectator.co.uk
Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· Apr 29
Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· Apr 24
The road trip from hell: Elegy, Southwest, by Madeleine Watts, reviewed
Throughout her quietly compelling second novel, Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts conjures a sense of trundling steadily towards disaster. The narrator, a young Australian woman called Eloise, is reco...
www.spectator.co.uk
Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· Apr 10
‘I did it for the experience’: Amoako Boafo, the artist who painted Jeff Bezos’s rocket ship
The Ghanaian’s dazzling work has been blasted into space and inspired a Dior collection. But, ahead of a new show, the ‘future of portraiture’ reveals how he originally wanted to be a tennis player
www.theguardian.com
Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· Mar 27
Deep mysteries: Twist, by Colum McCann, reviewed
On the first page of Colum McCann’s compelling novel Twist we meet the two leads: John A. Conway, who has disappeared, and Anthony Fennell, who’s trying to tell his story. They first met when Fennell,...
www.spectator.co.uk
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Sinéad Gleeson
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
· Mar 18
The Feminist Book Society presents SINÉAD GLEESON + CHLOË ASHBY
Tuesday 25th March, doors 630pm for 7pm start For their first event at Bàrd Books, Feminist Book Society brings together two exemplary writers whose exceptional novels examine the pursuit of an art…
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Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· Feb 19
Chloë Ashby's 'excruciatingly suspenseful' new novel goes to Fig Tree
Ella Harold, editor at Fig Tree, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Family Friends, the third novel by writer and journalist Chloë Ashby, from Emma Finn at C&W. Fig Tree will publish the novel...
www.thebookseller.com
Chloë Ashby
@chloeashby.bsky.social
· Jan 23
The splatter of green and yellow that caused uproar in the Victorian art world
London, June 1877. Beneath a cloudy sky, the celebrated art critic John Ruskin strode along Bond Street towards the newly opened Grosvenor Gallery. Inside, he viewed a smash-hit show of beautiful and ...
www.spectator.co.uk