Matthew Plampin: Matthew Plampin Untitled Book 2, Gebunden
Matthew Plampin Untitled Book 2
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- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers, 07/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780008163662
- Item number:
- 10664271
- Volume:
- 384 Pages
- Weight:
- 270 g
- Format:
- 240 x 159 mm
- Thickness:
- 28 mm
- Release date:
- 3.7.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
THE HOLY CITY IS NO PLACE FOR MERCY
'Matthew Plampin should rank with the best' Sunday Times
'Plampin is heartbreakingly good' The Times
'Gripping, immersive, at times very funny and beautifully written, this is historical fiction of the highest quality' Elizabeth Fremantle
Rome, 1650.
The streets are teeming as thousands of pilgrims flood in for the Holy Jubilee, but behind the gilded façade of the Vatican, power is unravelling.
Donna Olimpia Maidalchini has long kept Pope Innocent X under her thumb, but as loyalties shift, her enemies close in. And her most dangerous opponents may be those she deems too weak to matter.
Two destitute nuns arrive, fleeing the ruined city of Castro and each carrying secrets that could destroy them.
Meanwhile, the assistant to the famed Spanish artist Diego Velázquez is drawn into a perilous conspiracy - one that could bring Italy to its knees, and against which his own desperate ambitions seem to count for nothing.
As the sweltering summer heat rises, survival, not salvation, becomes the ultimate goal - and in this world of sin, saints almost never survive.
Biography
Matthew Plampin wurde 1975 geboren und wuchs in Essex auf. Er studierte englische Literatur und Kunstgeschichte an der Universität von Birmingham und promovierte am Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Hauptberuflich arbeitet er als Dozent für die Kunst und Architektur des 19. Jahrhunderts.More from Matthew Plampin
