Lucinda Byatt
A Name in Blood
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The mystery of Caravaggio’s last months and death has never been satisfactorily resolved: traditionally, he is said to have died…
The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History
This notorious case has undergone numerous academic and popular study, following the centenary of Alfred Dreyfus’ rehabilitation in 1906. The…
Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy
The book’s title contains the clue to its unique approach. Duggan has drawn on the reams of correspondence received by…
The Deadly Sisterhood
After her much lauded biography of Catherine de’ Medici, Frieda has shifted her chronological focus back a few years and…
Wolves in Winter
Hilton’s latest novel, Wolves in Winter, is the first of a trilogy set in Renaissance Italy. The scene is set…
The Cruel Trade
This unusual novel is set in Zanzibar in the mid-19th century, where slavery, ivory and trade from the northern ports…
Memory of the Abyss
Returning home late one night, Felice Stocchino and his young son, Samuele, are refused a glass of water at a…
The Knot
This is a perfect book for the green-fingered reader – and also for translators! Henry Lyte has made it his…
The Good Hope
William Heinesen was a native of the Faeroe Islands – where this book is set – although he wrote in…
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
This is a story you might think you know already, also thanks to Alan Moorehead’s two books published fifty years…
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