James Cahill

Dr James Cahill is an author, critic and art historian. His debut novel, TIEPOLO BLUE (2022), was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and selected for H.M. the Queen’s Reading Room (“An electric new novel” – Guardian; “Startlingly impressive” – Daily Mail; “Divine” – Evening Standard). His second novel, THE VIOLET HOUR, is published in the UK by Sceptre and forthcoming in the US in March 2026 from Pegasus (“Enthrallingly intricate” – Guardian; “Exquisite” – Times [of London]; “A biting satire of the art world’s glamour, pomp and greed” – Daily Telegraph). He contributes to publications including Artforum, the Burlington Magazine, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. Based between London and Los Angeles, he is currently writing a book on David Hockney’s 1967 painting, Beverly Hills Housewife.