The State of the Art

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The State of the Art: 1: The Reinvention of Giles Flint-Greenfield

1: The Reinvention of Giles Flint-Greenfield

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A savagely funny short series from William Boyd skewering the contemporary art world.

A St James' art dealer with a penchant for postwar British painting finds terrifyingly new horizons opening up for him in East London, in William Boyd's savagely funny new series.

Ed Stoppard kicks off William Boyd's savagely funny short story series skewering the contemporary art world.

Giles Flint-Greenfield, a St James' art dealer with a penchant for post-war British watercolours, is finding his world rather small. But when Ludo Abernathy, an old and far more successful art dealer friend, cuts him in on the mother of a deal, new and potentially terrifying horizons open up for him in East London. All too soon Giles has swapped his tweed for black leather, and St James’ for a car maintenance shop,  and is feeling very much out of his depth among the art lovers of Leyton. Not least because he isn’t quite sure how Ludo is making him so much money….

Reader: Ed Stoppard. Other readers in the series: Tom Hollander, Adrian Scarborough, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Hayley Atwell.
Writer: William Boyd  is the author of 17 novels, including A Good Man in Africa,  winner of the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year
Producer: Justine Willett

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