Prize-winning historian and novelist

Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio (2013) which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Costa Biography Award and the Political Book Awards Biography of the Year. In 2020 The Sunday Times called it ‘the biography of the decade’.

Her latest book is The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham, published by Fourth Estate in the UK and HarperCollins in America.

https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/lucy-hughes-hallett