The marriage portraitWinter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner it occurs to Lucrezia that Alfonso has a sinister purpose in bringing her here. He intends to kill her. Lucrezia is sixteen years old, and has led a sheltered life locked away inside Florence's grandest palazzo. Here, in this remote villa, she is entirely at the mercy of her increasingly erratic husband.

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sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling

home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny

An illustrated

'Seashaken Houses' is a lyrical exploration of these singular towers

WITH 50 CHUNKY PIECES perfect for small hands

From the phenomenally bestselling David Walliams and illustrated in glorious colour by the artistic genius

deserts and mountains

carefully rewriting history

more out of control

Wrestling with his own demons

And although we've become used to popping pills