Sarah Dunant

A Novel

The Birth of Venus

A tale inspired by the lives of Borgia siblings Lucretia and Cesare traces the family's rise in the aftermath of Rodrigo Borgia's rise to the papacy, during which war, a terrifying sexual plague and the family's notorious reputation forge an intimate bond between brother and sister. By the best-selling author of The Birth of Venus.

The Borgias : a Novel

Blood & Beauty

In the Company of the Courtesan

In the Name of the Family - as Blood and Beauty did before - holds up a mirror to a turbulent moment of history, sweeping aside the myths to bring alive the real Borgia family; complicated, brutal, passionate and glorious. Here is a thrilling exploration of the House of Borgia's doomed years, in the company of a young diplomat named Niccolo Machiavelli. It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womaniser and master of political corruption is now on the Papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two, already thrice married and a pawn in her father's plans, is discovering her own power. And then there is Cesare Borgia: brilliant, ruthless and increasingly unstable; it is his relationship with the diplomat Machiavelli which offers a master class on the dark arts of power and politics. What Machiavelli learns will go on to inform his great work of modern politics, The Prince. But while the pope rails against old age and his son's increasing maverick behavior it is Lucrezia who will become the Borgia survivor: taking on her enemies and creating her own place in history. Conjuring up the past in all its complexity, horror and pleasures, In The Name of the Family confirms Sarah Dunant's place as the leading novelist of the Renaissance and one of the most acclaimed historical fiction writers of our age.

In the Name of the Family

Sacred hearts

After a nasty breakup with her boyfriend Tom, Lizzie Skorvecky, alone in her London home, plunges into her work of translating a Czech detective novel into English, only to have the violence and brutality of the novel appear in her own life. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Transgressions

Anna, a self-sufficient, thirtysomething, single mother, heads for Italy for a short vacation, possibly with a new lover, leaving her beloved young daughter behind with friends, but when Anna does not return from her holiday, a heated and chilling debate erupts over reasons for her disappearance. By the author of Transgressions. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Mapping the Edge

Alessandra Cecchi tem quase quinze anos quando o pai, um próspero mercador de tecidos, contrata um jovem pintor para pintar um fresco na capela do palazzo da família. Alessandra é uma filha da Renascença, tem uma mente precoce e um temperamento artístico... e rapidamente fica inebriada pelo génio do pintor. Muitos anos depois, a irmã Lucrezia morre no convento onde passou grande parte da sua vida. Perplexas, as outras freiras observam a estranha serpente tatuada no seu corpo. É que, antes de entrar para o convento, a irmã Lucrezia era Alessandra. Jovem, bela e inteligente, ela viveu o esplendor e luxo da Florença renascentista, conviveu com os ricos e poderosos, criou, amou, transgrediu... Como foi ela parar àquele convento? O que significa a tatuagem na sua pele? Quais foram afinal as causas da sua morte?

O Nascimento de Vénus

Roy Porter

This is an incisive and intelligent collection of new writing on the anxieties born from the imminent arrival of the next century, that includes contributions from Susie Orbach, Linda Grant and Oscar Moore.

The Age of Anxiety

Psychological thriller about a woman being preyed upon by a stalker - a dark, cumbersome, large woman of limited capability.

As Marla tries to free her friend from the dual addictions of love and cocaine, she unravels a story of seduction and power in Colombia and of desire and betrayal in California.

Snowstorms in a Hot Climate

La nascita di Venere

Birth of Venus B Waterstones Editio

i Borgia

Sangue e onore

La cortigiana

A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, "The Birth of Venus, " author Sarah Dunant won Britain's prestigious Silver Dagger award for "Fatlands, " a Hannah Wolfe mystery. In "Fatlands, " private investigator Hannah Wolfe, who's independent though not invincible, idealistic but definitely not naive, has taken on one of the less glamorous jobs in the security world -- chaperoning teenage rebel Mattie Shepherd around London. But Mattie's father is paying Hannah lots of money -- more than the job is worth, it seems. Or perhaps not. The girl's father is on the Animal Liberation Front's hit list. But why? When violence explodes, tearing the family apart, this is what Hannah must discover. Her obsession with the truth nearly kills her, wrecking her private life and dragging her into a vortex of lies and betrayal.

Fatlands

Imported from Goodreads. By Sarah Dunant.

Under My Skin (Hannah Wolfe, #3)

Året er 1492, og Alessandra er knap 15 år, da hendes far, en velstående klædehandler, tager en maler med hjem fra Nordeuropa. Maleren skal udsmykke væggene i kapellet i familiens florentinske palazzo. Som barn af renæssancen, fremmelig og med talent for at tegne, beruses Alessandra af malerens evner. Hun bliver via maleren trukket ind i sin fødeby Firenze, hvor den nye tankefrihed lever side om side med de gamle, kødelige laster. Hun opdager, at ondskaben hærger i byens gader og er vidne til, hvordan den fundamentalistiske munk Savonarola kommer til magten. Alessandra og Firenze er fanget mellem mediciernes stat med dens luksus, lærdom og blændende kunst og Savonarolas trusler om helvede og den vold, hans tilhængere udøver. Og midt i det hele har maleren - og hans kunst - en stærk og voksende erotisk tiltrækning på Alessandra. Venus' fødsel er en tour de force, begået af en af Englands mest fascinerende spændingsforfattere. Romanen giver et levende billede af Firenzes historie i den mest dramatiske periode og er med Alessandras lidenskabelige stemme en fængslende beretning om kærlighed, kunst, religion og magt. En bemærkelsesværdig heltinde med samme smittende livskraft som hendes elskede by.

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