Before writing, he worked as a reporter for the BBC, Channel 4 (UK) and ZDF (Germany) and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, UK and US.

biški prisiminiau Tokie smulkūs dalykai - ten stebuklas galbūt labiau tikėtinas (visgi Kalėdų metas), bet irgi siužetiškai panašiai antrame plane, fone skleidžiasi.led him to a disastrous war (in fact The Count Duke of Olivares seemed to have no fear of English naval power, nor of the consequences of the Invincible for what one wonders. One of the bigger surprises for me would probably not surprise a history buff very much, but it's still presented in a neat way that should interest someone who saw it coming.

Considering the fate of Sarah Blundy, what do you think Pears is saying about the construct of social justice versus divine justice? There is a wonderful scene in the novel’s first section where Marco da Cola attends (and loathes) a production of King Lear by William Shakespeare. The title is a quotation borrowed from the 17th century philosopher Francis Bacon, who in his Novum Organum wrote about the nature of reasoning and the fallibility of evidence, but accounted for instances of the fingerpost - crucial instances which pointed in only one direction, sure and indissoluble, allowing for no other possibility. He moved on to Oxford in an effort to improve his situation and fell in with some of the notable scientific minds of the day. Remember that not everyone shares da Cola’s reaction; indeed, Richard Lower reacts to the play very differently.Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause, determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II, a mathematician, theologian and master spy; and A An Instance of The Fingerpost” is the moment that marks the discovery of an inviolable truth in the cause of an investigation. Yet by the very term 'an instance', Francis Bacon (and Iain Pears) underline just how rare such a thing might be.

It is Set largely in the 1660s in Oxford, England, the intellectual seat of the country, a place of great scientific, religious, and political ferment.

Kad vis kitose dalyse sutinkame tuos pačius personažus ir jie atsiskleidžia vis kitu aspektu, vis su kitais ar papildomais bruožais. He did not realize that I saw, that instant, into his soul and perceived the devilish intent that lay hidden there, coiled and waiting to unleashed when all around had been lulled into thinking him a fool. The fourth narrator is Anthony Wood, an antiquary and historian, best known for his diaries that were published long after his death. One young woman, Sarah Blundy, suspected to be the murderer and already found guilty by almost everyone before her trial starts. Consider the family histories of some of the characters in this novel, and how the actions of their fathers has determined their station in Restoration society.

Im Anschluss daran studierte er unter anderem Kunsthistorik und Literatur am Wadham und Wolfson College der Oxford University.The reader can only take so much of this, however, and I was certainly relieved when the baton was handed on to the historian Anthony à Wood, the fourth narrator.