Iain Pears

Someone's planning to raid an ancient monastery in Rome. But why? And when? Enter art expert Jonathan Argyll..."Pears exhibits quite a masterful touch at suspenseful storytelling."-Chicago Tribune "Simultaneously witty and instructive."-Publishers Weekly

From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. But who controls the future—or the past? In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes …

It's England in the 1660s, Charles II has been restored to the throne following years of civil war and Oliver Cromwell's short-lived republic. Oxford is the intellectual seat of the country, a place of great scientific, religious, and political ferment. A fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious …