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.

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Stone's Fall Iain Pears Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 25 July 2010. Shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010. A brilliantly plotted novel tracing back through John Stones’s life in three distinct segments allowing the reader to slowly... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)

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 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)