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Domino
Ross King

Domino

Ross King’s delightful, Rabelaisian novel recounts the adventures of young George Cautley, an aspiring artist who, as he makes his way through London’s high society, finds that nothing is as it seems and everyone wears a disguise. Moving from masquerade balls in London to the magnificent and mysterious opera houses of Venice, Cautley is drawn into a web of intrigue and murder spun by the seductive and tempestuous Lady Beauclair. Suspenseful, menacing, and laced with black humor, King’s picaresque tale is full of surprises and suspense, told at the pace of a thriller and with the richness of a restored painting.

Book Details:

  • Author: Ross King
  • Published Year: 1995
  • Rights Sold
    • US: Walker Publishing Company Inc
    • Holland: Ambo Anthos Uitgevers
    • Spain: Planeta
    • Russia: Eksmo
    • Japan: Hayakawa Publishing
    • Denmark: Centrum
    • UK: Penguin Random House
Ross King

Ross King

Ross King is the bestselling author of books on Italian, French and Canadian art and history. Among his books are Brunelleschi’s Dome (2000), Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling (2002), The Judgment of Paris (Governor General’s Award, 2006), Leonardo and The Last Supper (Governor General’s Award, 2012), and Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (Charles Taylor Prize, 2017). He has also published two novels (Domino and Ex-Libris), a biography of Niccolò Machiavelli, an...
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Book Reviews

  • "Evokes engrossingly and brilliantly the sights, smells, language and manners of late eighteenth-century London."
    Charles Palliser, author of The Quincunx
  • "A fascinating and resplendent debut."
    Daily Telegraph
  • "Delivers a seamless coup. It has the pace of a thriller and black humour slivered with superb menace … be sure to read it."
    Spectator
  • "Outlandish hats and hairstyles, towering wigs, gender-blurring masquerades—these are among the numerous excellent reasons to pick up Ross King’s Domino."
    The New York Times Book Review
  • "A rich brocade of a novel … A coming-of-age tale, a comedy of manners, a witty, penetrating and occasionally dark satire, as well as a thriller."
    Orlando Sentinel