Лучшие книги Ваноры Беннетт

1527 год. Знаменитый художник Ганс Гольбейн приезжает в Лондон, чтобы написать портрет высокопоставленного придворного и видного ученого Томаса Мора в кругу семьи. Шумный, веселый и богатый дом Мора привлекает самых известных философов, политиков и людей искусства. Однако проницательного живописца не может ввести в заблуждение внешнее благополучие. В семье Мора тайны есть у каждого. Всем есть что скрывать. Порой эти тайны скандальны, порой - опасны. Но какие секреты хранит самая загадочная из обитательниц дома Мора - прекрасная Мег Джиггз, обладающая почти сверхъестественной властью над мужскими сердцами?

Set in St Petersburg during the Russian Revolution, a sweeping novel of love and loss as one woman fights for her own personal survival - and for the man she loves. By the acclaimed author of Blood Royal and Queen of Silks. St Petersburg,1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of her native Kiev to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia’s capital city. Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop, and feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle of friends. But revolution is in the air and, as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between following her…

Evie, a rebellious young American leaves New York in search of art and adventure in jazz-age Paris, where her grandmother lives. But on arrival, her grandmother’s sudden death leaves Evie compelled to carry out her dying wish: to find a man from her past called Zhenya. The quest leads Evie deep into the heart of the Russian émigré community of Paris. With the world on the brink of war, she becomes embroiled in murder plots, conspiracies and illicit love affairs as White faces Red Russian and nothing is as it seems. With Jean, a liberal Russian writer by her side, Evie finally seems to have found the passion and excitement she's…