About the Author
Karen Liebreich has a doctorate in history from Cambridge University and a research diploma from the European University Institute in Florence. She has worked as a cultural assistant for the French Institute in London, and has been a television documentary researcher and producer. She is the author of Fallen Order: Intrigue, Heresy and Scandal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio (2004) and The Letter in the Bottle: A True Story (2006).
Featured books by Karen Liebreich
The Letter in the Bottle
A sad and most unusual story stemming from a bottle Karen Liebreich found washed up on the shore. It had come from France and contained a letter from a mother grieving over the death of her son. This sets the author on a quest to find the woman by any means possible and solve the mystery of the message in the bottle. The paperback has been updated with the end to Karen Liebreich’s searching and how she finally got to understand this mother’s loss. Like for Like ReadingThe Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search, Martin Sixsmith The Good Women of China, Xinran
Other books by Karen Liebreich
The Letter in the Bottle
A sad and most unusual story stemming from a bottle Karen Liebreich found washed up on the shore. It had come from France and contained a letter from a mother grieving over the death of her son. This sets the author on a quest to find the woman by any means possible and solve the mystery of the message in the bottle. The paperback has been updated with the end to Karen Liebreich’s searching and how she finally got to understand this mother’s loss. Like for Like ReadingThe Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search, Martin Sixsmith The Good Women of China, Xinran
Fallen Order
'This scholarly yet brilliantly accessible book could not be more timely... Without bias or oversimplified polemic, Karen Liebreich's meticulous scholarship brings the whole sorry episode to light, step by step, in a piece of investigative writing that is relentless in its search for the truth.' -- KAREN ARMSTRONG 'A brilliant book. The religious order, although it still exists, has now largely disappeared from the historical record. In the seventeenth century it was a powerful intellectual force in a world in turmoil. It pioneered new methods of schooling but for all its outward piety, it was also wrenched by a series of scandals involving child sex abuse and heresy. For centuries the Church has covered up the dark side of the order's history. Until now. In Fallen Order Karen Liebreich has unearthed these events from the archives and she has told the story of the rise and fall of this group of priests with scholarly precision and enormous verve. Fallen Order is great history, as compelling as a detective story.'--ANTHONY PAGDEN, Professor of History, University of California.
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