In the twilight of glittering, shameless New York, the most famous chronicler of eighties society was columnist Libby Alexander -- a.k.a. The Pimpernel. She was the all-perceiving eye among the citizens of a gilded arena. Now New York is in the grip ...
"The Diamond" is a brilliant, dazzling historical novel about a famous diamond -- one of the biggest in the world -- that passed from the hands of William Pitt's grandfather to the French kings and Napoleon, linking many of the most famous personalit...