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I used to teach "My Last Duchess" back in my college lecturer years, and this book jumps off of Browning's poem and provides the back story to the painting in question. It's imaginative, and lush, and evocative of the time.
WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.
“I could not stop reading this incredible true story.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)
"O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station...You may know the history, and you may think you…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Richard and Henry, two royal cousins born in the same year, one blessed by an accident of birth, the other by a surfeit of natural talent, each led by fate and temperament to fight one another for England’s crown. It is the stuff of epic drama, as Shakespeare well knew. But also of epic history in the hands of a master craftsman like Helen Castor. Supported by a treasure trove of new research, ‘The Eagle and the Hart’ is destined to become a classic and an indispensable guide to the causes of the bloody Wars of the Roses.
'A glorious work of history... a gripping and haunting tragedy... There was no book published this year, novels included, that I found richer in character; no plot more taut' - Tom Holland, The Spectator
'A dazzling tour de force of epic royal history: a compulsive, unputdownable real-life thriller, a gripping portrait of ruthless power politics, and a study of British tyranny ... written with the delicacy and elegance of one of Britain's most brilliant historians at the top of her game' - Simon Sebag-Montefiore
