The Accidental Collector

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Set in the world of contemporary art Guy Kennaway's new novel delivers his trademark absurdities and laugh out loud moments.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As the globe's most successful super-dealer Herman Gertsch spent his charmed life jettiing between his galleries in Zurich London and New York fawned over by artists curators politicians and the uber-rich.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Herman's empire grew nothing seemed to get in his way until he made the calamitous decision to open a gallery in a rural English backwater. Here Herman encountered John 'Brother' Burn a penniless hippy known as the slipperiest man in south Somerset and therefore the western hemisphere.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In the riotous comedy of errors that follows Kennaway pours mistaken identity Amazonian tribesmen Swiss food DMT Arab Royalty million dollar paintings and worthless tat onto a spin painting of a story that dazzles with surprises and leaves you feeling reassuringly warm about art and life.</span></p>