Lucy Hughes-Hallett

PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE ‘SUBLIME’ – A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ‘STUNNINGLY GOOD’ – THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOKS 2024 ‘COMPULSIVE’ – A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ‘BRILLIANT’ – A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ‘A delicious, grippingly paced tale of rogues, riotous sex,...

PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE ‘SUBLIME’ A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ‘STUNNINGLY GOOD’ THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOKS 2024 ‘COMPULSIVE’ A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ‘BRILLIANT’ A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the...

Brilliant and discursive Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy Joan Smith, New Statesman Winner of the FAWCETT PRIZE and EMILY TOTH AWARD In the 2,000 years since her death, Cleopatra has been recreated over and over again by poets, artists, and filmmakers, each time in a...