Books written by Sarah Dunant

In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel

Not least to Pope Clement VII, who was one of his biggest patrons. As a Medici, Clement came from a noble lineage of the erotic: his uncle, Lorenzo the Magnificent, had written an infamous sonnet extolling the virtues of sodomy within ...
The Birth of Venus (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

These are not clement times for a pregnant woman to be on the streets.” He looked up at me as if he was seeing me properly for the first time. “With child? Is it a godly creation?” And as he spoke his hood fell back and now I caught ...
Birth Marks: A Hannah Wolfe Crime Novel

In Birth Marks, private investigator Hannah Wolfe gets a case worthy of the great detective novels she so admires.
Blood and Beauty: A Novel About the Borgias

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels—The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts—has an exceptional talent ...
Amor y muerte en Florencia

Amor y muerte en Florencia
The Birth of Venus

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo.
Transgressions

Elizabeth is a modern woman.
The Birth of Venus: A Novel

Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo, a situation that is complicated by her ...
The Birth of Venus: A Novel

The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense.
The Birth Of Venus

As Medici Florence is threatened by the hellfire of the monk Savonarola, the painter and his dazzling art exert and ever more powerful and erotic pull. 'This moving, gripping and impressive work is Dunant's most beautifully achieved novel .
Sacred Hearts

Condemned by sixteenth-century demands for lucrative dowries in order to marry, young Serafina is ripped from an illicit love affair and confined in a Renaissance Italy convent, a situation against which she passionately rebels and reminds ...
In the Name of the Family: A Novel

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY COSMOPOLITAN (UK) AND THE TIMES (UK) “In the end, what’s a historical novelist’s obligation to the dead? Accuracy? Empathy? Justice? Or is it only to make them live again?
Transgressions

Terrifying, dark and bold, Sarah Dunant's breakthrough psychological thriller transcends genres and audiences; it crosses all boundaries, encroaching on the darker side of sex and fantasy, male and female.
Blood and Beauty: A Novel About the Borgias

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels—The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts—has an exceptional talent ...
Blood And Beauty

Just twelve when the novel opens, she is to have one dynastic union annulled and a second—beloved—husband murdered by her own brother to make way for a third strategic marriage—all before the age of twenty.
BP Portrait Award 2009

Sarah Dunant, National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain). DIRECTOR'S FOREWORD 1 - What makes a painted portrait Stephen Shankland ( b.1971 , winner particular or special ? And which 2004 ) and Dean Marsh ( b.1968 , are the very best of ...
In the Name of the Family

"It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two--already three times married and a pawn in her father's plans- ...
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Transgressions

A tale of revenge in Britain in which a woman about to be raped seduces the man, then plots to destroy him.
Transgressions

Terrifying, dark and bold, Sarah Dunant's breakthrough psychological thriller transcends genres and audiences; it crosses all boundaries, encroaching on the darker side of sex and fantasy, male and female.