Lucy Hughes-Hallett – The Brief & Brilliant Life of the Duke of Buckingham

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s last work of non-fiction was The Pike: Gabriele D’annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War which won the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Political Biography of the Year Award and the Costa Biography Award. In 2020 it was named ‘biography of the decade’ in the Sunday Times. Since then Lucy has written the novel Peculiar Ground (set largely in the seventeenth century) which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, and Fabulous, a collection of short stories. Her earlier books were Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions, which won the Fawcett Prize (1990) and Heroes, (2004).

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