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    Iain George Pears (born 8 August 1955) is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. Pears was born on 8 August 1955 in Coventry, England. He was...
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  • Stone's Fall is a 2009 historical-mystery novel by Iain Pears. An ageing BBC reporter approaching retirement in 1953, Matthew Braddock is on a farewell...
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  • An Instance of the Fingerpost is a 1997 historical mystery novel by Iain Pears. A murder in 17th-century Oxford is related from the contradictory points...
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  • The Dream of Scipio is a novel by Iain Pears. It is set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western civilization—the collapse of the Roman...
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    as a minor character in the historical-mystery novel Stone's Fall, by Iain Pears. Mayer Rothschild is featured in Diana Gabaldon's novel Voyager as a coin...
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  • Verb"), which is now lost. He is the basis for the protagonist Manlius in Iain Pears' book The Dream of Scipio. Macrobius's given name (praenomen) is unrecorded...
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  • Shook the Financial World. In the historical novel Stone's Fall (2009) by Iain Pears, Barings and its role in the Panic of 1890 play a significant part in...
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  • fictional spaceship in Space Pirate Captain Harlock Arcadia, a 2015 book by Iain Pears Arcadia (band), a British pop music group composed of members from Duran...
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  • and historian Erik Pears (b. 1982), American football offensive tackle Harry Pears (1877–1912), Australian rules footballer Iain Pears (b. 1955), English...
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    (1897–1978), novelist and biographer, born and brought up in the city. Iain Pears (born 1955), undergraduate at Wadham and Oxford resident, wrote An Instance...
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    Hodegetria in Rome features in the crime novel Death and Restoration (1996) by Iain Pears, in the Jonathan Argyll series of art history mysteries. It gives its...
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    Ellis Alison Gopnik Nigel Hitchin Reid Hoffman Eric Lander Wes Moore Iain Pears Francisco Rezek Chris Whitty In the sciences, alumni of the college include...
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    military textbook. In An Instance of the Fingerpost, a historical mystery by Iain Pears, a book cipher conceals one character's family history and its relationship...
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    Metastasio, based upon Scipio Aemilianus's 'soul-journey' through the cosmos. Iain Pears wrote a historical novel called The Dream of Scipio which, though attributed...
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    Bernard Shaw's arms magnate in Major Barbara. The title character in Iain Pears' historical-mystery novel Stone's Fall also has similarities to Armstrong...
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    centrepiece of his political thriller, Angels & Demons, while British novelist Iain Pears made a missing Bernini bust the centrepiece of his best-selling murder...
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  • Midnight Solaris Books Nnedi Okorafor The Book of Phoenix Hodder & Stoughton Iain Pears Arcadia Faber and Faber James Smythe Way Down Dark Hodder & Stoughton...
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    as a minor character in the historical-mystery novel Stone's Fall, by Iain Pears. Staff (July 1, 1949). "DE ROTHSCHILD, 81, SPORTSMAN, DEAD Baron, Member...
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  • Escape by Georgette Heyer (mid-17th) An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears (mid-17th) Seek the Fair Land by Walter Macken (mid-17th) Girl with a...
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  • Charles Kay (Actor)) 1942–1948 John Masefield (Poet Laureate) 1888 – 1891 Iain Pears (novelist) M J Trow (writer) John McLusky (Hector John Dewhirst McLusky)...
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  • Premonition, the 1920 German silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost, Shutter Island and Kim Newman's Life's...
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  • Cicero (106–43 BC) Sarah Dunant Sacred Hearts 16th-century Italian convent Iain Pears Stone's Fall Early 20th-century mystery/thriller Simon Mawer The Glass...
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    fiction, Clarendon is a minor character in An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears and in Act of Oblivion (2022) by Robert Harris. He is also a recurring...
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  • Patterson Richard North Patterson David Payne Octavio Paz Mervyn Peake Iain Pears T. R. Pearson Harvey Pekar Sharon Kay Penman Walker Percy Georges Perec...
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  • Makepeace Thackeray (reign of Queen Anne) An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears (Restoration period) Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott (1715 Jacobite rising)...
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  • in Paris in 1828. In his afterword to An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears explains that much of the book's plot was inspired by the career of Willis...
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  • Christopher Paolini Ann Patchett James Patterson Laline Paull Nancy Pearl Iain Pears Louise Penny Stef Penney Tom Perrotta Jordan Peterson Per Petterson Arthur...
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  • in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic cultural and social history Iain Pears, popular British novelist, art historian Tony Buti, Australian politician...
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    significantly in the 1890s. Banks portal The historical novel Stone's Fall by Iain Pears. The Panic of 1890 is part of the historical setting and many historical...
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    Inhabitants of Île-d'Houat are called Houatais. Houat is the setting for Iain Pears' 2005 novel The Portrait. Communes of the Morbihan department "Maires...
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