Dominic Smith

A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village—and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II—centuries of earthquakes, landslides and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain, including the widows Serafino—three eccentric...

. . . worthy of comparison to Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch . . . A masterly, multilayered story that will dazzle readers. Library Journal (starred review) In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland as a master painter, the first woman to be so honoured....

Utterly absorbing, astonishingly inventive, and richly imagined. Dominic Smith is a wizard. — Andrea Barrett, National Book Award Winner and author of Archangel. From the award-winning author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his muse. Dominic Smith's The Electric...

Paediatrics at a Glance provides an introduction to paediatrics and the problems encountered in child health as they present in primary, community, and secondary care, from birth through to adolescence. Thoroughly updated to reflect changes in understanding of childhood illness over the last five years, the 4th edition of this best-selling textbook diagrammatically summarises the main differential diagnoses for each...