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- Sceptre
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction
A glorious canvas, peopled by werewolves, thieves, emperors, travelling players and a forgerer dwarf from the acclaimed author of SHIP OF FOOLS.
ARTS AND WONDERS follows Tommaso Grilli, dwarf and talented art forger, from his unhappy beginnings in Renaissance Florence, via a life of crime in Prague, to the minor German Dukedom of Felsengrunde. There, as curator and (more often than not) 'creator' of a fantastical Library of Arts, he makes himself indispensable to the impoverished duke - with whom his own fortunes will be murderously linked.
More books by Gregory Norminton
Gregory Norminton
Gregory Norminton was born in 1976. He studied at Oxford and trained as an actor. His first novel, THE SHIP OF FOOLS, was published by Sceptre in 2002 and was followed in 2004 by ARTS AND WONDERS, for which he won an Arts Council Writers Award, GHOST PORTRAIT in 2005 and SERIOUS THINGS in 2008.
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