A dimwitted FBI agent tries to save Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel from a deranged Nazi academic, double agents, and an elite assassination team sent by Heinrich Himmler. Understanding Gödel’s famous incompleteness theorem becomes the key, but will the dull G-man be up to it?

A seventeenth-century Italian orphan finds the long-lost piece of The Last Supper, missing since Dominican friars cut out a portion of the wall to connect the priory’s refectory with its kitchen. The painting has long ago dissolved, and the refectory converted to stables.The orphan boy sleeps in the stables, and he begins to have visions of the painting. Each night, the visions get clearer and clearer, until the boy sees the whole painting as Leonardo first painted it two hundred y...

A sweeping saga of intrigue and romance set during the Italian Renaissance and told through the eyes of Grazia dei Rossi, a young Jewish woman torn between duty and forbidden romance, who wins our hearts with her recorded secrets of love.Grazia dei Rossi, private secretary to the world-renowned Isabella d’Este, is the daughter of an eminent Jewish banker, the wife of the pope’s Jewish physician, and the lover of a Christian prince. In a “secret book,” written as a legacy for her so...

'Simply amazing, so brilliantly written . . . almost intolerably exciting at times, and at others, equally poignant' ANTONIA FRASER'A beautiful serpent of a novel, seductive and dangerous . . . consumes utterly - but the experience is all pleasure' SIMON SCHAMA'She writes like a painter, and thinks like a philosopher . . . a tour de force of storytelling' AMANDA FOREMAN'An erotic and gripping thriller . . . ...

'The pre-eminent novelist of Renaissance Italy' S. J. PARRIS, OBSERVER'Dunant triumphs, like all good novelists: in a deft, shrewd, precise use of killer detail' CHRISTOBEL KENT, GUARDIAN'She writes like a painter, and thinks like a philosopher . . . A tour de force of storytelling' AMANDA FOREMAN'A writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts' SIMON SCHAMA

In 17th Century Venice exists a mysterious establishment known only as the Gameshouse.There, fortunes are made and fortunes are broken over games of chess, backgammon and every other game under the sun.But those whom fortune favours may be invited to compete in the higher league . . . a league where the games played are of politics and empires, of economics and kings. It is a league where Capture the Castle involves real castles, where hide and seek takes place on a scale as ...

Richly engaging historical adventure in the vein of The Winter Palace and The Malice of Fortune.Muse is the story of the charismatic woman who was the inspiration behind Petrarch's sublime love poetry. Solange Le Blanc begins life in the tempestuous streets of 14th century Avignon, a city of men dominated by the Pope and his palace. When her mother, a harlot, dies in childbirth, Solange is raised by Benedictines who believe she has the gift of clairvoyanc...

Rodger embarks on a mission to Florence, in search of an elusive assassin...In his fourth journal, A Brood of Vipers, Roger Shallot encounters treacherous conspiracies and terrible murders as he journeys from Tudor London to Florence. Paul Doherty's Tudor mysteries are perfect for fans of Susannah Gregory and C. J. Sansom.Spring 1523. Benjamin Daunbey and his rapscallion servant, Roger Shallot, are summoned to London. A Florentine ...

Christopher Buckley’s “hilarious, bawdy, and irreverent frolic of a tale” about a sixteenth-century relic hunter and the artist Albrecht Dürer who conspire to fabricate Christ’s burial shroud reads “like Indiana Jones gone medieval” (USA TODAY).The year is 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter who procures “authentic” religious relics for wealthy and influential clients. His two most important patrons are Frederick the Wise and soon-to-be Cardinal Albrecht of Mai...

The latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures - the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.Available exclusively in eBook.

AD 848.Bernwyn of Lythe, the young daughter of an ealdorman, spurns marriage and chooses to remain a virgin dedicated to Christ. When she is found murdered in the chapel where she kept her nightly vigils, it is thought that she has fallen victim to the Viking raiders who are ravaging the country and the butterflies found resting on her body are taken to be a sign from God.But what if Bernwyn was not all she seemed? Could the saintly deeds attributed to her have been carried out by ...

Romeo & Juliet is the greatest love story ever told.Every story has a beginning."A novel of intricate plot, taut narrative, sharp period detail and beautifully realized characters." - Publishers Weekly"A delightful romp through the backstory of 'Romeo & Juliet." - Chicago Sun-TimesDive into a captivating fusion of literary worlds. This masterful novel takes you on an unforgettable j...