Pilate

Description

The facts about Pontius Pilate are very few - when he was born and when he died is unknown. Nor is anything known about his career before he became Governor of Judea, or after he was recalled by Tiberius. This book is about all the Pilates, real, half-real and invented.

Ann Wroe is the Obituaries editor of The Economist, and has written its weekly obituary for almost two decades. She is the author of eight previous works of non-fiction, including biographies of Pontius Pilate (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award and the W.H. Smith Award), Perkin Warbeck, Shelley, Orpheus (winner of the Criticos Prize) and St Francis. She lives in Brighton and London.

The touch of a master novelist... Few have ever explored so imaginatively, or with such passionate attention to detail' * Sunday Telegraph * Because so little is known, it is possible to speculate endlessly. If one's mind is a brilliant engine of speculation like Wroe's, then one is dazzlingly equipped to do so. Her book is excellent and discloses an intense imaginative sympathy, a lyricism, and a fine-tuned psychological perception * Daily Express * Wroe is a creative, even a beautiful writer... It is a wonderfully enjoyable, rich, generous book -- A.N.Wilson * Daily Mail * Extraordinary and compelling -- Victoria Glendinning * Daily Telegraph * She manages always to keep Pilate living and breathing in the text, and occasionally kicking and screaming * Independent on Sunday *