The Raphael AffairPears, Iain
9780007202775
The Portrait
ISBN 10: 0007202776 / 0-00-720277-6
ISBN 13: 9780007202775
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN 13: 9780007202775
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Publication Date: 2005
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Iain Pears was born in 1955, educated at Wadham College, Oxford and won the Getty Scholarship to Yale University. He has worked as a journalist, an art historian and a television consultant. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream Of Scipio. He lives with his wife and son in Oxford.
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