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An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Category: Fiction
Lust, betrayal, secrets, murder... Brilliantly written, utterly convincing, gripping from the first page to the last, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a magnificent tour de force. 'A fictional tour de force which combines erudition with mystery' PD James Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of ...Show more
Arcadia by Iain Pears
Category: Fiction
Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. April, 1960: In the cellar of a professor's house in Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat - and instead finds herself in a different world. Anterwold is a sun-drenched land of storytellers and prophecies. But is this w ...Show more
Arcadia by Iain Pears
Category: Fiction
Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds. He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world - a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes J ...Show more
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Category: Fiction
In his most dazzling and brilliant novel since "An Instance of the Fingerpost", Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents. ...Show more
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Category: Fiction
In his most dazzling and brilliant novel since An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents. A ...Show more
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Category: Fiction
Set in Provence during the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and World War II, this novel follows the fortunes of three men - a Gallic aristocrat, a poet and an intellectual who joins the Vichy government.
The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears
Category: Fiction | Series: Jonathan Argyll Mystery Ser.
First in the Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer and sleuth Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. When English art historian, Jonathan Argyll, is caught breaking into a church in Rome, he has an astonishing story to tell. ...Show more
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