The Venetian Contract
$25.44
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2013
Summary
- Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague - and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge.
But the ship also holds a secret stowaway - Feyra, a young and beautiful harem doctor fleeing a future as the Sultan’s con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848545670 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848545673 |
| Author: | Marina Fiorato |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 30mm |
| Series: | John Murray |
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Praise for Marina Fiorato:‘Fiorato creates her own masterpiece’
[Fiorato’s] knowledge of the city and its history shines through on every page - Choice Magazine
I absolutely loved this story - debrasbookcafe.blogspot.co.ukIf you like historical fiction and/or medical dramas, you should really give this a try. Fiorato writes with a deft hand and creates a whirlwind world that is excitingly beautiful and uncertain - Praise for Marina Fiorato:‘Fiorato creates her own masterpiece’ - BooklistCaptures the scents, passion and vigour of Italy - Books QuarterlyA great read - BestA great holiday read with solid historical substance - Historical Novels ReviewAbout The Author
Marina Fiorato
Marina Fiorato is half-Venetian. She was born in Manchester and raised in the Yorkshire Dales. She is a history graduate of Oxford University and the University of Venice, where she specialized in the study of Shakespeare’s plays as an historical source. After university she studied art and since worked as an illustrator, actress and film reviewer. Marina was married on the Grand Canal and lives in north London with her husband, son and daughter.
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