Domino
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  • Published: 30 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446466681
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
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Domino

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30 Apr 2011
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7 Dec 2006
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'Delivers a seamless coup. It has the pace of a thriller and black humour slivered with superb menace...be sure to read it' - Spectator

By the author of the acclaimed Brunelleschi's Dome.

After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist adrift in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait. She, in turn, tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera company fifty years before. But Cautley also meets the eminent painter Sir Endymion Starker that same evening and his mistress, Eleanora, who has another tragic tale to tell, one that will have George unwittingly re-enacting the fate of Tristano...
  • Published: 30 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446466681
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
Categories:

About the author

Ross King

Ross King is a renowned expert in the Italian Renaissance. He is the author of numerous bestselling and acclaimed books including The Bookseller of Florence, Brunelleschi's Dome, Machiavelli, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and Leonardo and the Last Supper. He lives just outside Oxford.

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Also by Ross King

The Bookseller of Florence
Brunelleschi's Dome
The Judgement of Paris
Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling
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Praise for Domino

Domino sends you spinning into [an] utterly convincing world

Evening Standard

A fascinating and resplendent debut

Daily Telegraph

As unnerving as a magician's cupboard

The Times

Evokes engrossingly and brilliantly the sights, smells, language and manners of late eighteenth-century London

Charles Palliser, author of The Quincunx

Fleshes out wildly and deliciously the Rabelaisian goings-on of London's finest

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