All the Beauty in the World A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art

Who would have thought that the outstanding art book of the year would be written not by a curator or an art historian or even an artist – but by a museum guard?

Sunday Times, *Art Book of the Year*

Greek vases, an Iroquois turtle rattle, Picassos. His every word about them is illuminating. The big picture is art’s power to console and unite

Financial Times *Best Books of 2023*

Consoling and beautiful

Guardian

Hauntingly beautiful ... elegant ... a work of art as luminous as the old masters' paintings that comforted [Bringley] in his grief

Daily Mail Online

Bringley is a marvellous guide ... All the Beauty in the World succeeds joyously

Daily Telegraph