CHEERIO is an eclectic, independent publishing imprint and production company launched in 2020 in association with The Estate of Francis Bacon.

We commission innovative books and films that confound received ideas and open the door to new perceptions. In the spirit of Francis Bacon’s work, we are here to intrigue, disturb and thrill.

HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2025

Gilbert & George and the Communists Waterstones Edition
by James Birch

Picking up where the acclaimed Bacon in Moscow left off, Gilbert & George and the Communists sees daring art dealer James Birch take the most iconic duo in British art through the dying embers of the Soviet Union, and into a China reinventing itself post- Tiananmen Square as a global superpower. More

Gilbert & George and the Communists
by James Birch

Picking up where the acclaimed Bacon in Moscow left off, Gilbert & George and the Communists sees daring art dealer James Birch take the most iconic duo in British art through the dying embers of the Soviet Union, and into a China reinventing itself post-Tiananmen Square as a global superpower. More

Kitchen Hymns
by Pádraig Ó Tuama

Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Pádraig Ó Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor devotion. More