Education
He was educated at Warwick School, Warwick, Wadham College and Wolfson College, Oxford.
(From the author of the international best seller An Insta...)
From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares to imagine a world less fraught than his own. He finds an unlikely confidante in Rosie, an inquisitive young neighbor who, while chasing after Lytten's cat one day, stumbles through a doorway in his cellar and into a stunning and unfamiliar bucolic landscape—remarkably like the fantasy world Lytten is writing about. There she meets a young boy named Jay who is about to embark on a journey that will change both their lives. Elsewhere, in a distopian society where progress is controlled by a corrupt ruling elite, the brilliant scientist Angela Meerson has discovered the potential of a powerful new machine. When the authorities come knocking, she will make an important decision—one that will reverberate through all these different lives and worlds.
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journalist art historian writer
He was educated at Warwick School, Warwick, Wadham College and Wolfson College, Oxford.
Before writing, he worked as a reporter for the British Broadcasting Corporation, Channel 4 (United Kingdom) and ZDF (Germany) and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, United Kingdom and United States. In 1987 he became a Getty Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at Yale University. Pears first came to international prominence with his best selling book, which was translated into several languages. He is known for experimenting with different narrative structures, presenting four consecutive versions of the same events in An Instance of the Fingerpost, three stories interleaved in, three stories told in reverse chronological order in, and allowing the reader to switch between multiple narratives in the electronic book version of.
He has also written a novel series featuring Jonathan Argyll, art historian.
(From the author of the international best seller An Insta...)