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Sarah Dunant has written twelve novels, four of which have beenshort-listed for awards, and edited two books of essays. She workedfor many years for the BBC in radio and television. She featured as anexpert in the BBC2 'Renaissance: the Blood and the Beauty' dramadocumentary series which broadcast in December 2024. Her most recent five novels, set within the Italian renaissance, weave cuttingedge historical scholarship into fiction, have become internationalbestsellers and have been translated into thirty languages.

Reviews for the Hardback:'Dunant's Isabella is a triumph - she is too ferocious, too alive to be amere wisp of a ghost. Dunant gives her a brilliantly lively afterlife.'Antonia Senior, The Times Best Historical Fiction Books, 2025'An utterly fascinating portrayal of a formidable and brilliant womanwielding power in the complex turmoil of the political landscape ofRenaissance Italy - a woman who is irrepressible even in death.' JenniferSaint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne and Hera'What distinguishes and elevates to the first order Sarah Dunant's seriesof five novels set in Renaissance Italy is that she combines flawlesshistorical scholarship with beguiling storytelling.' Guardian'Dunant makes the art and philosophy of the period look new anddangerous again.' The Times'Dunant has made completely her own the story of the Italy's mostinfamous ruling family ... in a way that we can see, hear and smell.'Guardian