Framed

by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Art crime is always a fun topic, because the prospect of making off with just one item which is not only beautiful but also worth $25 million is so tempting. This is a children’s book about some entirely opportunistic and haphazard plans to steal van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” but utterly charming for adults too. It was recommended by historian Janina Ramirez and is really, really funny. The narrator is a boy living in Snowdonia, and one of the benefits of listening to it as an audiobook is that everyone around him speaks in authentic Welsh accents.