'Fantastic' - James O'BrienThe brilliant mind behind the Secret Tory presents 14 years of Tory rule - as told by William Shakespeare'O, for a muse of fire that would ascendThe brightest heaven of pretention!
'Inventive' THE TIMESFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy-an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
'Spellbinding' ELIF SHAFAK'Ingenious' THE TIMES, Book of the Year'Sparkling'OBSERVER'A triumph' PHILIP PULLMAN'As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead' INDEPENDENT'Meticulously researched and evoking the beauty of the Venice lagoon' PHILIPPA GREGORY'A spectacular feat, crafted by a maestra at the top of her game' SPECTATORFROM THE GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRINGVenice, 1486.