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MY FLORENCE – IN SEARCH OF THE BOTTICELLI SECRET
Next week Dan Brown releases his latest book, Inferno. The story of this much-anticipated novel is being kept very much under wraps, but the word is that the book will be set in and around Florence, and that Robert Langdon will be unravelling a Dante-esque… Read more
Posted on May 8, 2013
Books like Brown’s – my history of the ‘Code’ novel
It all began, for me, with The Name of the Rose.
I read it as a teenager, probably too young to understand it all, but was immediately captivated by the hermetic world of a monastery beset by the Inquisition. The literati, I am sure, would… Read more
Posted on April 29, 2013
The Dan Brown Countdown…
As the whole world knows, Dan Brown’s Inferno comes out on the 14th May. The smart money is expecting a code book set in Florence and we can certainly anticipate a mad stampede to the bookstores and a fever of downloading. But, personally, I’m hoping… Read more
Posted on April 22, 2013
Publication Day!
Well the new book ‘The Venetian Contract’ is out today! Available from all good bookshops as they say, and also from Amazon on
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Venetian-Contract-Marina-Fiorato/dp/1848545649/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_1
Here’s a little blurb as a taster:
VENICE, 1576 – Five years after the defeat of… Read more
Posted on June 21, 2012
New book coming out! And even newer one in the works…
Well the new book Daughter of Siena comes out tomorrow in hardback – my first hardback ever, woo hoo! The cover is lovely so I hope it will leap off the shelves.
Also just finished and handed in the new manuscript – very… Read more
Posted on May 24, 2011
