Modernists & Mavericks. Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters, Paperback/Martin Gayford

This engagingly narrated account of the development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s takes in the work and lives of Bacon, Freud, Hockney and many others, with publication coinciding with the exhibition 'All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a century of painting life' at Tate Britain from late-February to August.