Iain Pears

This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward. Larissa was born in northern Russia, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from a noble family who survived the siege of Leningrad by...

Arcadia weaves together three interlocking worlds, exploring the lives of four people in search of answers. April, 1960: In the cellar of a professor's house in Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat and instead finds herself in a different world. Anterwold is a sun-drenched land of storytellers and prophecies. But is this world real, and what...