The Raphael Affair

Iain PEARS

Harpercollins

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The Titian Committee

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

The Bernini Bust

<p>Witty art-history mystery from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, An Instance of the Fingerpost. British art historian Jonathan Argyll has just sold a minor Titian to an American museum for a highly inflated price. But as he complacently awaits his cheque in the Californian sunshine, trouble erupts: the museum's billionaire owner is murdered, a dubious art dealer disappears, and a Bernini bust, apparently smuggled out of Italy, is missing. Things could hardly be worse, and the situation calls for assistance from his friends General Bottando and Flavia di Stefano of the Italian National Art Theft Squad!especially as things do get worse -- the killer's attention turns to Jonathan himself. Cleverly mixing murder with art, The Bernini Bust is a witty and intriguing mystery from the bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.</p>

Harper Collins Pb

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. This art history mystery is from the author of "An Instance of the Fingerpost".

The Last Judgement

The Portrait

A dark and disturbing novel of suspense, set at the turn of the 20th century, by the bestselling author of `An Instance of the Fingerpost'. The windswept isle of Houat, off the coast of Brittany, is no picturesque artists' colony. At the turn of the twentieth century, life is harsh and rustic. So why did Henry MacAlpine forsake London - where he had been feted by critics and gallery owners, his works exhibited alongside the likes of Cezanne and Van Gogh - to make his home in this remote outpost? The truth begins to emerge when, four years into his exile, MacAlpine receives his first visitor. Influential art critic William Naysmith has come to the island to sit for a portrait. Over the course of the sitting, the power balance between the two men shifts dramatically as the critic whose pen could anoint or destroy careers becomes a passive subject. And as the painter struggles to capture Nasmith's true character on canvas, a story unfolds - one of betrayal, hypocrisy, forbidden love, suicide and ultimately murder. `The Portrait' is a darkly atmospheric, psychologically complex, macabre and chilling novel from a master storyteller.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Harper-perennial

Raphael Affair

HarperCollins Publishers, Limited

Parallel Lives A Love Story from a Lost Continent

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Vintage

<p>Like his elegant debut, An Instance of the Fingerpost , Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told from multiple viewpoints. But Pears has set himself an additional challenge by spreading his narrators over several there's the fifth century French nobleman and bishop, Manlius, a civilized man who has embraced the uncouth Christian faith in order to protect what he holds dear; an 11th-century scholar and troubadour named Olivier de Noyen, the famously ill-fated admirer of a married girl; and Julien Barneuve, an early 20th-century scholar of de Noyen who discovers, through him, a magnificent manuscript of Manlius's called "The Dream of Scipio." Though all three men come from the same small Provençal town, it is this manuscript, derived from the teachings of a wise woman, that links the three narrative threads of Pears's story. At the heart of The Dream of Scipio and, one suspects, at the heart of its author, is the conflict between a classical ideal of learning and the contemplation of beauty, and the noisy, uncivilized, democratizing impulses of the Christian era. A novel of ideas like its predecessor, The Dream of Scipio is neither chilly nor didactic and doesn't shy away from depicting the costs of its narrators' unpopular devotions. --Regina Marler</p>

The Dream of Scipio

Genre Fiction

Virgin

Stone's Fall

Spiegel and Grau

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