Edward White: The Tastemaker [2014] hardback PBFIC ' Sadie Jones (in the

' Sadie Jones (in the Guardian)

A sumptuous historical novel set in the court of Elizabeth I

which ended in venereal disease

in 1991 with Reading Turgenev and in 2002 with The Story of Lucy Gault

Edward White: The Tastemaker [2014] hardback PBFIC ' Sadie Jones (in theNew York City in the early twentieth century was a hotbed of vice and creativity, and the critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten was at the centre of it all. The Tastemaker explores the many lives of the era's most influential cultural impresario: the critic who brought Gertrude Stein to the nation's attention; the patron of the Harlem Renaissance; the photographer who captured the age's icons; and the novelist who created some of the