Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People Details
About the Author John Banville is a novelist who won the Man Booker Prize for The Sea (2005).Tracy Chevalier is a historical novelist best known for Girl with a Pearl Earring.Julian Fellowes is a novelist, screenwriter and actor, most famous for his screenplay for Gosford Park and more recently the hugely popular Downton Abbey series.Alexander McCall Smith is the award-winning author of No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.Terry Pratchett has sold more than 55 million copies of his science-fiction and fantasy novels worldwide. He was the bestselling UK author of the 1990s.Sarah Singleton is an author of young adult fantasy fiction who won the Booktrust Teenage Prize for her novel Century in 2005.Joanna Trollope is the author of eleven bestselling novels, several of which have been adapted for television.Minette Walters is the award-winning author of thirteen crime novels, including The Ice House and The Sculptress. Read more
Reviews
This fascinating little book allows some very fine authors to play, inventing identities to match the painted faces of unknown men and women in portraits spanning several centuries. Half of the fun comes in seeing the details that inspired the authors to choose which path to take - - murderer, or mistress, queen, or spy... It's a very little book, but beautifully produced - - and it would be a great gift for anyone who loves art, or mysteries, or just good writing.
