Duncan Sprott crea ricostruzioni storiche, addentrandosi nel passato con meticolosa attenzione ai dettagli per dare vita a narrazioni dimenticate. Il suo stile di scrittura è caratterizzato da una profonda immersione nelle fonti storiche, creando racconti avvincenti che trasportano i lettori in altre epoche. L'opera di Sprott offre una finestra unica sui tempi passati, meticolosamente ricercata e vividamente rappresentata. Risiede in Irlanda.
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. and Ptolemy Philandelphus finds his wife ousted by his reptillian sister, who wants to marry him herself . But with the glory of the Ptolemies at its height after Egypt wins victories at Syria, it is the turn of the murderess to be murdered.Meanwhile, the people of Egypt are thinking about revolution .
The House of the Eagle begins Duncan Sprott's 'Ptolemies Quartet', an epic and ingenious restoration of the dark and glittering story of ancient Alexandria and the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spans twelve generations from the death of Alexander the Great to the fall of Cleopatra. Narrated by Thoth, the ibis-headed Egyptian god of writing and wisdom, this book details the rise of the shrewd Ptolemy I from ordinary soldier of Macedon to Satrap of Egypt, and his coronation as Pharaoh and a god in his own lifetime. A triumph of historical salvage, The House of the Eagle brings vividly to life the most bizarre family that ever existed. 'After the first few pages something extraordinary happens, and you find yourself lulled by the story's relentless onward push . . . It slips by like a bad dream that leaves you feeling still shaken in the morning. And that is meant as the highest compliment.' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
Der Maler François Boucher machte sie unsterblich: Marie-Louise Murphy, Tochter irischer Einwanderer aus ärmsten Verhältnissen, Geliebte des französischen Königs, reichste Frau am Hofe von Versailles - und berühmtestes Aktmodell des 18. Jahrhunderts. Duncan Sprott erzählt, ironisch und mit Esprit, die Geschichte dieser unwiderstehlichen Abenteurerin.
Duncan Sprott erzählt die fesselnde Geschichte einer griechischen Herrscherfamilie in Ägypten, geprägt von Reichtum, Grausamkeiten, Brudermord und Schwesternliebe. Nach dem Tod Alexanders des Großen verwaltet Ptolemaios Ägypten und gründet eine hellenistische Dynastie, die bis zu Kleopatra besteht.
