Sarah Dunant has written eight novels, including The Birth of Venus and three Hannah Wolfe novels -- Birth Marks, Fatlands, and Under My Skin. She has worked widely in print, television, and radio. Now a full-time writer, she lives in London and Florence.
A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, author Sarah Dunant won Britain's prestigious Silver Dagger award for Fatlands, a...
In Birth Marks, private investigator Hannah Wolfe gets a case worthy of the great detective novels she so admires. At first glance, this one doesn't...
...as attested by the success of such works as Tracy Chevalier’s Girl With a Pearl Earring and Sarah Dunant’s The Birth of Venus, not to mention books by writers like Sarah Waters, Jane Harris, and Rose Tremain. Readers fond of these writers will find...
...run as a "commercial operation in the early days". Borgia novel unveiled Festival-goers had a sneak preview of Sarah Dunant's historical novel on the Borgias, which she only finished writing last week. Blood and Beauty dramatises the murder of Giovanni...
...blockbuster. From 19th century America we travel to Renaissance Italy and the city of Ferrara, the setting for Sarah Dunant's Sacred Hearts. How the camera could feast on that divine architecture hovering seductively over the lush landscape surrounding...
...Novels on Art, Artists and Art World Shenanigans React Follow Book Reviews , Georges Perec , Michael Frayn , Nick Laird , Sarah Dunant , Susan Hill , Tracy Chevalier , Virginia Woolf , Art World , Don Delillo , Novels , Peter Carey...
...if I could cheat and take two trips around the world, I’d also like to go with Sarah Dunant and Hilary Mantel who are two of the best world-builders and wordsmiths in the genre. 6. Who was more dashing and interesting, King Henry VIII of England or King...
...fellow historical fiction authors you'd like to go on a history themed tour of the world with? Sarah Dunant and Hilary Mantel. If non-fiction, I would chose Lucy Worsley — she knows everything! 6. Who was more dashing and interesting, King Henry VIII...
...met all expectations. Georgia Blain's story of middle-class angst in suburban Sydney, Too Close to Home, and Sarah Dunant's wicked tale of repressed 16th-century nuns, Sacred Hearts, were page-turners. In poetry, Cate Kennedy's images of love and loss in...
...TV presenter Jeremy Paxman, BBC Radio 4's Sandi Toksvig, Alan Titchmarsh, poet Carol Ann Duffy, and authors Sarah Dunant, Nadine Gordimer (Booker Prize Winner) and William Boyd. With more events than ever before, you'll be dashing from film screenings to...
...blockbuster. From 19th century America we travel to Renaissance Italy and the city of Ferrara, the setting for Sarah Dunant's Sacred Hearts. How the camera could feast on that divine architecture hovering seductively over the lush landscape surrounding...
...Novels on Art, Artists and Art World Shenanigans React Follow Book Reviews , Georges Perec , Michael Frayn , Nick Laird , Sarah Dunant , Susan Hill , Tracy Chevalier , Virginia Woolf , Art World , Don Delillo , Novels , Peter Carey...
...Meacham (2010, 4.5 stars)Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (2011, 4.5 stars)Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (2009, 4.5 stars)The Darling Strumpet by Gillian Bagwell (2011, 4 stars)The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan (2009, 4.5 stars)The...
...One Year Ago: In the Garden of Iden by Kage BakerTwo Years Ago: The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant and And we are changing layouts againDanika tells me this is called head canon. I like that. I don't think I'll have to use it very often...