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Shimell's writing is suffused with a queer sensibility
�Avoiding saccharine nostalgia for the rituals of the past
Questioning his own morals and introduced to truths that challenge a lifetime of indoctrination
The kind of read that lingers long after you close the last page' Avina St
THE WEEK AND RED HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 'Sexy and fun and a little weird
Lying Abroad : Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy - Carol Chillington Rutter Paperback / softback Shimell's writing is suffused withStudent, traveller, secretary, scoundrel, spy: introducing the maverick whose diplomacy saved Europe from war. Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's ambassador in 1604. Yet the most remarkable phase of his career was yet to come. In Lying abroad, Carol Chillington Rutter tells Wotton's extraordinary story. She reveals how this one time exile, who fled England after his employer was convicted of