Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life. In this, the first-ever book to be written about him, Daniel Farson, friend and confidant to Bacon for over forty years, gives a highly personal, first-hand account of the man as he knew him. From his sexual adventures to his rise from obscurity to international fame, Farson gives us unique insight into Bacon's genius.

• Breakfast with Lucian
• Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
• Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud
• Soho in the Fifties and Sixties
• Chapter and Verse - New Order, Joy Division and Me