Breakfast at Sotheby's offers an entire art education contained in under 350 pages. Wry, dry, and completely beguiling, as noted by the Guardian in their Books of the Year 2013.

Fascinating and highly subjective, this book is built on Philip Hook's thirty-five years of experience in the art market. It explores the artist and his hinterland, covering topics such as -isms, middle-brow artists, Gericault, and suicides. It delves into subject and style, from abstract art and banality through surrealism and war. The book also examines 'wall-power', provenance, and market weather.

Comic, revealing, piquant, splendid, and absurd, Breakfast at Sotheby's is a book of pleasure and intelligent observation.