For fans of The Queen’s Gambit and The Handmaid’s Tale,award-winning journalist Harriet Constable’s unforgettable novel tells the story of classical music as it has never been told before.Inspired by true events, The Instrumentalist tells the story of Anna Maria della Pietà—orphan, musical prodigy and favourite student of Antonio Vivaldi. Anna Maria is on a mission: to become Venice’s greatest violinist and composer. In her remarkable wor...

For fans of The Queen’s Gambit and The Handmaid’s Tale,award-winning journalist Harriet Constable’s unforgettable novel tells the story of classical music as it has never been told before.Inspired by true events, The Instrumentalist tells the story of Anna Maria della Pietà—orphan, musical prodigy and favourite student of Antonio Vivaldi. Anna Maria is on a mission: to become Venice’s greatest violinist and composer. In her remarkable wor...

Harriet Constable, author of the international bestseller The Instrumentalist, which has sold nearly 70,000 copies worldwide, returns with a gripping and propulsive historical novel inspired by the life of seventeenth-century rebel Julie d’Aubigny, or, as her fans would have known her, “La Maupin,” the star of the original Paris OperaParis, 1705: Marie, a shy and beautiful widow, is the lucky artist chosen to paint the newest portrait of the reclusive La M...

Harriet Constable, author of the international bestseller The Instrumentalist, which has sold nearly 70,000 copies worldwide, returns with a gripping and propulsive historical novel inspired by the life of seventeenth-century rebel Julie d’Aubigny, or, as her fans would have known her, “La Maupin,” the star of the original Paris OperaParis, 1705: Marie, a shy and beautiful widow, is the lucky artist chosen to paint the newest portrait of the reclusive La M...

A muizai is a mistress’s shadow, there to do her bidding . . .In nineteenth-century China, tightly bound feet, or “golden lilies,” are the mark of an honorable woman. When Little Flower is sold as a maidservant to Linjing, a daughter of the prominent Fong family, she clings to the hope that her golden lilies will someday lead her out of a life of slavery.Not only does Little Flower have bound feet—uncommon for a muizai—but she is ...

The epic retelling of a real Sicilian peasant family's rise & fall—the basis for the Disney-produced Hulu Original Series The Lions of Sicily ."Beautifully written, impossible to put down, the powerful Florios of Sicily are alive on every page." —Peter Golden, author of Nothing Is ForgottenIn this sweeping saga inspired by the real lives of history-making titans, interna...

“Full of passion and rich historical detail . . . an enthralling read, impossible to put down.” —Phyllis T. Smith, bestselling author of I Am Livia and The Daughters of Palatine Hill“This is Venice beneath the mask: A dark and fascinating love story hiding in the shadows of the golden city.” —Marina Fiorato, bestselling author of The Glassblower of MuranoSet in eighteenth-century Venice and based on an actual account by Giacomo Casanov...

A ruthless billionaire…When Sicilian tycoon Raul Di Savo meets Lydia Hayward, it's not only her cool elegance he desires-seducing Lydia will also deny his lifelong rival's bid for her body…An innocent in peril…Desperate to escape being sold to a stranger, Lydia turns to Raul-he promises her only one night, but his expert touch awakens her to pleasure she cannot resist!A nine-month consequence!Discovering she's a pawn in Raul's game of revenge, Lydia ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartfelt novel of the power of love across three generations of an Italian-American family, from the author of the Big Stone Gap series“[An] epic of small-town life . . . A personal saga of American history and a romance woven together with warmth and good humor.”—The OregonianIn the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in coastal Italy migrated to the promised land of America. They e...

In glittering 18th-century Venice, music and love are prized above all else--and for two sisters coming of age, the city's passions blend in intoxicating ways.Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day. The two sisters were abandoned as babies on the steps of the Ospedale della Pietà, Venice's world-famous foundling hospital and musical academy. High-spirited and rebellious, Chiaretta marries into a great aristocratic Venetian family and eventually be...

Two women's decision to save a child during WWII will have powerful reverberations over the years.Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family. Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a chil...

The right book might just change your life ...Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy.Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home.Now Mim has arrived in wonderful Venice, city of canals, palaces, bridges, boats and ... quarrels. Gondolier battles, cat-nappings and laundry theft are just the beginning...