'Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic, seductively detailed biography: a man of impossible contradictions, at once hubristic warmonger, tender lover and brilliant power-broker to two kings. Lucy Hughes-Hallett opens a spyhole into the dark, strange world of the Stuart kings, with its masques and superstitions, where a beautiful boy could rise to become the most powerful man in Britain' Olivia Laing 'The spectacular rise and fall of gorgeous George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, pearls in his ...
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'Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic, seductively detailed biography: a man of impossible contradictions, at once hubristic warmonger, tender lover and brilliant power-broker to two kings. Lucy Hughes-Hallett opens a spyhole into the dark, strange world of the Stuart kings, with its masques and superstitions, where a beautiful boy could rise to become the most powerful man in Britain' Olivia Laing 'The spectacular rise and fall of gorgeous George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, pearls in his ears, in the arms of the king, enthrallingly retold here by Lucy Hughes-Hallett in a book which is so full of gripping detail that I am sure the subject himself would find it impossible to put down' Philip Hoare Praise for The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War 'Hard to beat ... a biographical tour de force ... a rich, voluptuous treat ... a triumph, the biography of the year' Robert McCrum, Observer, 'Books of the Year' '[The Pike] dramatically extends biography's formal range to encompass a daunting theme' TLS, 'Books of the Year' 'This is a magnificent portrait of a preposterous character ... deplorable, brilliant, ludicrous, tragic but above all irresistible, as hundreds of women could testify. His biographer has done him full justice' Francis Wheen, Daily Mail 'A cracker of a biography, an extraordinary story of literary accomplishment, passionate war-mongering and sexual incorrigibility... In less skilled hands this could have been a disaster; in fact it works wonderfully well' Spectator, 'Books of the Year' 'Hugely enjoyable ... Hughes-Hallett has a great talent for encapsulating an era or an attitude ...That almost 700 pages flew by bears testimony to how pleasurable and readable those pages were' Sunday Times
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