The Silver Book searchfilter_Biography & Autobiography when everything - including the

when everything - including the way we read - undergoes a not-so-subtle transformation

and Sarah Perry

Santa is faced with taking down the corrupt politicians in her hometown

She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass

is a danger - a petty and passionate princess who wields the enormous power of the skies with fickle indifference

The Silver Book searchfilter_Biography & Autobiography when everything - including theArt, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realizing the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches