Blood And Beauty, published by Little, Brown/Virago July 2012.
Is there a family in history more dazzling, dangerous and notorious than the Borgias?
A powerhouse of the Italian Renaissance, their very name epitomizes the ruthless politics and sexual corruption of the Papacy.
The father, Pope Alexander VI, a consummate politician and a man with a voracious appetite both as Cardinal and Pope.
The younger Juan, womanizer and thug, and their lovely sister, Lucretia, whose very name has become a byword for poison, incest and intrigue.
But how much of the history about this remarkable family is actually true, and how much distorted, filtered through the age old mechanisms of political spin, propaganda and gossip?
What if the truth, the real history, is even more challenging?
After years of research I am deep into - "Blood & Beauty: The Borgias" an epic novel which sets out to capture the scope, the detail, the depth, the colour and the complexity of this utterly fascinating family.
Interestingly - it seems I am not the only one gripped by The Borgias.
On screen in America this spring - The BORGIAS - premieres on April 3rd.
A nine part drama for Showtime, directed by NEIL JORDAN and starring JEREMY IRONS
Watch and Enjoy but remember THERE IS ALWAYS ANOTHER TRUTH WAITING TO BE UNCOVERED.
About Sarah Dunant's Sacred Hearts
"Sarah Dunant's latest novel, achieves the remarkable. Ecstasy, jealousy, betrayal, revenge, adolescent rebellion, and romance swirl like trails of incense behind the impenetrable walls of the Italian convent, Santa Caterina." Read More
Sarah Dunant's Novel "Sacred Hearts" Has Been Shortlisted For the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
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The Channel 4 TV Book Club (UK) reviews Sarah Dunant's Sacred Hearts, and the celebrity guest is Emilia Fox here or read the interview here
Sarah reads excerpts from Sacred Hearts with the Doric String Quartet and Musica Secreta on BBC Radio 3 - LISTEN HERE
Listen to the dramatization of Sacred Hearts on BBC Radio 4 with Geraldine James as Zuana, Eileen Atkins as the Abbess & Nathalie Dormer as Serafina - LISTEN HERE
Articles/Reviews:
Sacred Hearts, Secret Music
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Our first CD for two years, Sacred Hearts, Secret Music offers our vision of music as it could have been heard in the fictional convent of Santa Caterina, the setting for Sarah Dunant's new novel, Sacred Hearts. - READ MORE
Denman Island Writers' Festival builds on success
The Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival, this year on July 16 to July 19, has the growing reputation as one of the West Coast's premiere literary events. What's not to like? - READ MORE
Sinner and saint
The dark, wild tale of Radegunda, a captured queen who becomes the founding abbess of a convent in the dark ages, helped Sarah Dunant while she was researching her own novel about nuns in 16th-century Italy - READ MORE
