ELIZABETH FREMANTLE
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Rome 1599

​A young noblewoman accused of murder, awaits execution. Imprisoned in the Corte Savella, she has captured the hearts and sympathy of all Rome. . .


This is the true and tragic tale of Beatrice Cenci.

Murder most foul or vengeance most just?

Helpless victim or resolute heroine?



OUT –  JULY 3rd 2025
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DISOBEDIENT – Winner of the HWA Gold Crown 2024

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THE TIMES   – review extract

​Jude Law immediately joins the upper ranks of the great screen Henry VIIIs with an incendiary, movie-defining performance in firebrand. Directed by the Brazilian-Algerian Karim Aïnouz, it takes as its subject the closing, paranoid and increasingly incapacitated years of Henry’s reign, and specifically his relationship with sixth and final wife Catherine Parr Tudor version of 
Sleeping with the Enemy, is propelled forward by this fundamental tension. Henry is a psychopath who, at any minute, can have Catherine murdered. And if he uncovers her alliance with Anne? Unthinkable. Vikander proves a suitably stoic foil to Law, and plays Catherine in a mask of brittle inexpressiveness when faced with her husband’s grotesque displays. ​
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DISOBEDIENT IN BEST OF 2023 – BBC CULTURE AND TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR


Disobedient by Elizabeth Fremantle 
"Dazzling" says The Times of Elizabeth Fremantle's latest novel Disobedient, which tells the story of the great Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Set in Rome in the 17th Century, it follows the story of Artemisia's childhood and her dreams of becoming an artist, and then the event that would disrupt her life and see her put on trial. The Times continues: "Fremantle breathes new life into history. Artemisia is a powerful protagonist, and Disobedient is taut, fast-paced and as painterly as its heroine's canvases." AP News says: "The attention to detail – so necessary in a narrative filled with painters – is absolutely engrossing. Disobedient was everything I'd hoped for and so much more. Fremantle has immense talent and tells the story of an amazing and inspiring woman with wit and certainty." (LB)
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230420-12-of-the-best-books-of-the-year-so-far-2023
It is Rome in 1611 and the teenage Artemesia Gentileschi, her mother dead, is growing up in a house full of men - and in a world controlled by men. Her father, the painter Orazio, is proud of her artistic talent, but rueful that she is better than her brothers. And he slowly comes to the terrible realisation that her genius outstrips his abilities. Cue drunkenness and outbursts of violence. But
still Artemesia follows her burning desire to be taken seriously as an artist. A handsome new painting master, Tassi, enters the Gentileschi circle. At first he seems to represent artistic freedom, but then a terrible act of violence upends everything. Disobedient covers these early years of Artemesia's life, as she struggles with the fallout. She ends up in court facing abuse and worse from a
judicial system designed by men. Elizabeth Fremantle has written four excellent novels set in Tudor and Stuart England. This, however, is her best work, her equivalent of Gentileschi's painting Judith Slaying Holofernes. Disobedient is vivid, unflinching and sometimes justly furious.  (AS)
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Read the full review – Antonia Senior in The Times

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