"Best-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulous book brings into sharp focus the strange world of the Soviet Union, and the e...
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Author Iain Pears explores the love story, quest and mystery of financier and arms dealer John Stone -- a story that begins with Stone's death in 1909 and moves backwards through time all the while evoking the worlds of international finance, European espionage, and the start of ...
When Jonathan Argyll agrees to transport the "Death of Socrates" from a gallery in Paris to its new owner in Rome, he has no idea that such a worthless, nondescript painting could cause such as stir.-- Fantasticfiction.com.
This is the story of John Stone, a financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone's Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone died ...
Set in Provence at three pivotal times in history - the fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death and World War II - this complex novel follows the fortunes of three men linked by an ancient manuscript.
An art critic travels from London to the remote island of Houat, off France's northwest coast, to sit for a portrait in the early part of the twentieth century. The critic and the painter soon deal with their complex relationship and the painter reveals why he has accepted the co...
In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat,...
Jonathan agrees to help Flavia prove that a friend is correct in his belief that a single thief is responsible for a string of thefts.
In a major suspense novel set to surpass the internationally bestselling An Instance of the Fingerpost comes a dazzling story of youth, love and murderous ambition-a novel of time travel spanning three beautifully detailed worlds: the intellectual spires of Oxford in 1960, an a...