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Seducing Shakespeare
Seducing Shakespeare
Apr 19, 2025 12:40 AM

Author:Tabitha Ross,James Patterson

Seducing Shakespeare

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.

William Shakespeare has fallen in love with the beautiful Marietta DiSonna. Her fiery heart has inspired his sonnets and her steady gaze, his plays. But what Shakespeare doesn't know is that all the men and women are merely players in a grand production, and even Marietta is acting a role. Unless Shakespeare can seduce her in return...

Reviews

Excellent

—— Sunday Times

Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy

—— Financial Times

How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.

—— Tessa Hadley , Guardian Summer Reads, 2015

A delight, amusing, beautifully written.

—— The Times

Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy.

—— Financial Times

Excellent, brilliantly drawn.

—— Sunday Times

A gorgeous, heart-warming and life-affirming delight

—— Rachael Lucas

It made me want to seize the day! Life affirming with a very happy ending.

—— Jo Thomas

I LOVED this book SO MUCH! It by far surpasses me saying that it's my favourite Cathy Bramley...just amazing. I can't tell you how refreshing it was

—— Donna Trinder - Bookish Bits Blog

A joyous thing to read.

—— Press Association

Engaging characters, a stately home and a sweeping romance. This is delightful!

—— Katie Fforde

Clever, intriguing, chilling - and utterly impossible to put down

—— Grazia on When We Were Friends

Taut, compelling . . . a storming read

—— The Bookseller Books of the Year 2013 on One Step Too Far

One Step Too Far is a genius tale with a twist

—— Stylist

A whip-smart thriller that keeps you guessing right up until the final shocking twist

—— Mirror on One Step Too Far

Pitoniak maintains her keen eye for the universal insecurities facing her generation today, from romantic uncertainties and the relative benefits and downsides of hedge fund and nonprofit jobs to the emotional effort it requires to negotiate the predetermined facts of one's upbringing with the person one chooses to become

—— Harper's Bazaar

Pitoniak's debut focuses on that time of life that is at turns both exhilarating and terrifying: right after getting out of college, when you're forced to confront who you are and who you want to be, when you know life is just beginning, but you're also starting to feel like many of your options are fading away

—— Best New Books of 2017 , Nylon

Pitoniak's precise and incisive powers of observation gives us a book with startling grace notes

—— NPR.org

Anna Pitoniak's inspired debut centers on two recent college grads who move to New York City together during the 2008 recession and watch their relationship change drastically

—— Instyle

The One is one of a kind – and singularly good.

—— Barbara Copperthwaite

A fresh, compelling, psychological thriller that will keep you guessing!

—— Mandy Baggot

insanely brilliant

—— Gillian McAllister

pacy, thrilling and very original. The plot is fabulous

—— Askews Newsletter

A page-turning psychological thriller with a difference, this is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.

—— Irish Examiner
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