Iain Pears

Iain Pears is a British author and art historian whose literary fiction is characterised by its intellectual ambition, historical depth and narrative innovation. Parallel Lives, narrated by Richard Attlee, is a novel that explores the ways in which different lives intersect and mirror each other across time and circumstance. Pears brings the same combination of erudition and storytelling skill that distinguished An Instance of the Fingerpost, his internationally bestselling historical mystery, to a narrative that plays with parallel structures and the connections between seemingly separate human experiences. His audiobooks and books offer readers literary fiction that challenges and rewards in equal measure.