Author

Iain Pears

10 books, mostly historical fiction, for Blackstone Audio, Inc. and HarperCollins, 2005–2025

Iain Pears is an English novelist, art historian, and journalist whose writing career began with the Jonathan Argyll series of art-history mysteries. He gained international recognition with An Instance of the Fingerpost (1997), followed by structurally inventive historical and literary novels including The Dream of Scipio, Stone's Fall, and Arcadia. His fiction is noted for intricate plots, scholarly themes, multiple narrators, and experimental narrative structures.