Amanda Prantera

• Apr-1985
• / Suspense
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It was partly masochism, that murkiest of motives, which led Ludwig back to the convent where he had suffered such torment so many years before. It was curiosity as well. But it was the other turret he dreaded to contemplate - the high window where h...

• Aug-1986
• / General Fiction
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Some would call Joseph a wizard, or magician, though a Renaissance magus might be nearer the mark. In Venice in 1982, though, no magical operation can take place without an acquaintance with his special field....

• Jan-1987
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1991
• / General Fiction
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Amanda Prantera has also written "Strange Loop", "The Cabbalist" and "Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 162 Years After His Death". In this novel she introduces Galen, sage and scientist, wily old bird, and personal physician to the Empero...

• Jun-1995
• / General Fiction
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This is a story behind a fairy story. Magic realism of the simplest kind. There are no goblins or wizards in this book, but in their place undernourished miners, crafty dark-age wheeler-dealers and a backward, slightly furry population on the brink o...

• Aug-1997
• / General Fiction
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Here Zoe takes the reader on a sentimental tour of her early loves, a chapter on each. Trying to learn from her first artless clinch with a golden boy who tarnishes on contact, Zoe reacts with far too much caution with her next admirer who is due to ...

• Feb-1999
• / Literary
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Juliet, the English wife of a Roman industrialist, Lorenzo Gherardi, is woken in the middle of the night by a telephone call to learn that her husband has just died in a bomb explosion to the north of the city while at the wheel of his car. Due to...

• Apr-1999
• / Suspense
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Juliet, the English wife of a Roman industrialist, Lorenzo Gherardi, is woken in the middle of the night by a telephone call to learn that her husband has just died in a bomb explosion to the north of the city while at the wheel of his car. Due to hi...

• May-1999
• / General Fiction
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When young, beautiful, and very English Irene arrived in Florence in 1928 to stay with her aunt, she had no idea that Italy's seduction would be so powerful, nor that she would be married within six months. Nor did she imagine that it was only the be...

• Nov-2001
• / General Fiction
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Life begins to imitate art when a group of wellâ€"heeled expatriates, living in the Tuscan countryside, decides to stage an amateur production of Don Giovanni. An accomplished, thoroughly charming entertainment....

• Aug-2002
• / Thriller
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Lola d'Aquaviva's marriage is in tatters and she has come to Capri to recoup. She thinks her rather creepy end of the island would make a suitably sombre backdrop for a novel -- particularly the nearby Villa Fersen, where a rich, aristocratic pedophi...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction
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Funny without knowing it and naive without being innocent, Zoe is pretty much left alone to get on with growing up. Yet the most relevant events of her youth are invariably caused by other people. She gains the attentions of spell-binding stranger Mr...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction
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It was after his friend Adam had died mysteriously that Ben started to hear strange noises in the night. The two noviciate priests had roomed side by side at their seminary in Rome, the cool, sardonic Adam becoming a mentor to the younger Ben. Did Ad...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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When nineteen-year-old Sarah receives an invitation to a society ball from a notorious aristocratic socialite, she assumes there must have been some mistake. What could Nico, the belle of swinging sixties London, want with Sarah, a trainee secretary ...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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Through the voices of its members, a large middle-class British family with close connections to Shanghai tells its story and reveals its inner tensions and secrets...Running from 1906 to the present day, but written in a 'flashlight' mode - illumina...