Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio, which won all three of the UK’s most prestigious prizes for non-fiction – the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Costa Biography Award – as well as the Political Book Awards Biography of the Year. Her other books include a novel, Peculiar Ground, and the acclaimed cultural histories Heroes and Cleopatra. She lives in London and Suffolk.