Lucy Hughes-Hallett
LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT
the SCAPEOAT: THE BRILLIANT BRIEF LIFE OF THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (2024)
Buckingham was extremely good looking, was an excellent horseman, and a canny political operator. He parlayed these talents into great wealth and power. He was, however, to have a dramatic fall from grace.
THE AUTHOR
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for The Pike, a biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio. Her other books include Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who lives in London is also a literary critic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She worked for ive years as a feature writer on Vogue magazine, and also as a television critic for the Evening Standard.
