Iain Pears
Iain Pears was born in 1955, educated at Wadham College, Oxford and won the Getty Scholarship to Yale University. He has worked as a journalist, an art historian and a television consultant. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream Of Scipio.
He lives with his wife and son in Oxford.
Featured Books, with extracts, by Iain Pears
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Portrait
Iain Pears
Coming straight into paperback only, a beautifully produced book with flaps and coloured pictures of some of the paintings brushed over in this extraordinary monologue. Powerful, erudite, menacing, dark, disturbing and strangely gripping, this is a short (224 pages), atmospheric,...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 04/07/2005
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Books by Iain Pears
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Stone's Fall
Iain Pears
Presents the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents. This novel discusses a quest...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Death and Restoration
Iain Pears
Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring scholar and sleuth Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2007
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Giotto's Hand
Iain Pears
Witty and clever art history-mystery featuring Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2007
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The Immaculate Deception
Iain Pears
Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring Jonathon Argyll, scholar and sleuth, from the bestselling author of 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2007
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The Titian Committee
Iain Pears
Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2007
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The Raphael Affair
Iain Pears
First in the Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer and sleuth Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2007
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The Last Judgement
Iain Pears
Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2007
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The Bernini Bust
Iain Pears
Clever Italian art-history crime series featuring scholar and dealer Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the best-selling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2007
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The Portrait
Iain Pears
A dark and disturbing novel of suspense, set at the turn of the 20th century, by the bestselling author of 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2006
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The Portrait
Iain Pears
A dark and disturbing novel of suspense, set at the turn of the 20th century, by the bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2005
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The Dream of Scipio
Iain Pears
A novel set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth. It follows...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2003
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
Iain Pears
An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment - intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/1998
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