Books by Peter Everett

At seventy, Henri Matisse is a trim, clean old gentleman with a passion for naked women. If there were no Matisse there would be no art as such. MATISSE'S WAR is a minutely researched yet fictional account of Matisse's life during the years 1939-1945.

In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E J Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels. Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq's photographs have become famous, but the man himself remains a mystery.

A fisherman, sailing from Newlyn, Mousehole and St Ives, he began to paint in the 1920s - strange, brilliant pictures of ships and the sea. In 1928 he was discovered in St Ives by Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood and for the rest of his life, alone in his tiny cottage, attacked by periods of madness, he painted furiously.