Sarah Dunant will be touring her brand new novel In the Name of the Family across 2017, and we will be keeping this post updated with new events as they are confirmed.

• 6 March, 7pm: Sarah Dunant at the Ropetackle Arts Centre (Brighton) in association with City Books

  Presented by City Books. This special evening will include a reading, Q&A and book signing.

• 10 March, 6.30pm: Sarah Dunant at the National Gallery (London)

  Bestselling novelist of the Italian renaissance, Sarah Dunant marks the opening of the Michelangelo exhibition with an illustrated lecture showing how historical fiction, when combined with an understanding of art and cutting edge research can bring alive the past in all its dazzling complexity.

  Her new novel In the Name of the Family follows Niccolò Machiavelli, a jobbing diplomat in Florence and offers a ringside seat on the rise and fall of the Borgias: unscrupulous pope, marriage pawn daughter and psychotic son pushing to create a dynastic state inside Italy.

  Politics, the power of religion, the horrors of war and the wonder of art: the lecture explores how the red-hot lava of energy of the renaissance combined sex and spirituality, corruption and creativity and brutality and beauty.

• 18 March: Sarah Dunant at the Creative Industries Trafford: Northern Lights Writers’ Conference in partnership with Manchester Literature Festival

  Sarah is the keynote speaker for Northern Lights Writers’ Conference 2017.

   

• 23 March: Sarah Dunant at the British Institute, Florence (Italy)

   

• 6 April: An evening with Sarah Dunant at Topping (St Andrew’s, Scotland)

  Sarah Dunant, the internationally acclaimed author of The Birth of Venus, joins Topping & Company Booksellers to celebrate In the Name of the Family.

  “It is better to be feared than loved…” – Niccolo Machiavelli

  Dunant’s new novel is a brutal, stunning account of young Machiavelli’s encounter with the notorious Borgia family. A follow-up to the acclaimed Blood & Beauty, In the Name of the Family is a fresh and vital experience for any reader with an interest in the Renaissance period or, of course, Machiavelli himself.

  “A wonderful novel – taking you deep into the world of Renaissance passion and Renaissance papacy. Part of me was happily lost in the time travel, part of me repeatedly struck by how vividly ancient Rome met modern Rome, and how the city of history came to life.” – Mary Beard on Blood & Beauty.

  Thrillingly written and historically accurate, Dunant’s masterclass of Renaissance fiction will capture your imagination and leave you breathless.