In the Shadow of Vesuvius

‘Never less than compelling … She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life’ Tom Holland, Literary Review‘Starts with an erupting volcano – and then gets more exciting … Wonderfully rich, witty, insightful and wide-ranging’ Sarah BakewellIn a dazzling new literary biography, Daisy Dunn introduces Pliny the Younger, the survivor who became a Roman la...