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`A nail-biting thriller that'll keep you up all night' Emily Koch'Quirky and Compelling' Val McDermid

This title tells the story of the Faberge eggs, encompassing the love and opulence in which they were conceived, the war and revolution that scattered them, and the collectors who preserved them."

A sweeping narrative of the greatest craftsman that ever lived and what became of the insturments he made. This is the remarkable tale of Antonio Stradivari, the greatest instrument maker of all time, and what happened to the violins he created.

Antonio Stradivari (1644--1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive, their quality unequalled by any subsequent violin-maker. In this fascinating book, Toby Faber traces the rich, multilayered stories of six of these peerless creations-five violins and a cello-and the one towering artist who brought them into being. Blending history, biography, meticulous detective work, and an...

Standing on a tube platform, a young office-worker sees a dreadful accident. On reflection she realises that what she has witnessed may well be something much more sinister. She begins to investigate, not realising that in doing so she will become as much the hunted as the hunter.