Orlando Reade is a writer and academic based in London. His first book, What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost, is published by Jonathan Cape.

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The rewarding mystery of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

A large painting of three boys in the water does not readily disclose its secrets – but perhaps that is precisely the point

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