The Works
Five works of fiction and non-fiction, 2012–2027
Masterpiece
Four lives across five centuries, each irrevocably altered by a single, imperishable image. An artist in Renaissance Tuscany dreams a fresco into being, unaware it will outlast everything he knows. A Bloomsbury writer wraps a discovery inside a secret love letter. A British soldier stands before orders and chooses the painting. A conservator in modern Sansepolcro finds that to restore a fresco is to inherit every story the canvas has ever held. Drawn from real letters, unpublished diaries and photograph albums, this is the novel Hannah Rothschild was born to write.
High Time
When the stakes are this high, how low will you go? Ayesha Scott has a perfect life — art-filled Cornish castle, stratospherically wealthy husband — until one day she discovers she will be penniless, homeless and powerless unless she can outwit an international mafia and infiltrate the world of high finance. A high-octane satire of art, money and English eccentricity.
House of Trelawney
New money, old money, no money. The ancient, crumbling Trelawney family face ruin as the 2008 crash strips away the last illusions of genteel Cornish aristocracy. A sparkling, warmly acclaimed satire of the British establishment in decline — winner of the Wodehouse prize, beloved by readers from The Wall Street Journal to The Guardian.
The Improbability of Love
A grimy painting discovered in a neglected second-hand shop turns out to be a lost Rococo masterpiece — and soon Annie McDee finds herself pursued by a Russian oligarch, an avaricious Sheika, a desperate auctioneer and an unscrupulous dealer. Winner of the Bollinger Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016.
The Baroness
The remarkable true story of Pannonica de Koenigswarter — a Rothschild heiress who abandoned her gilded cage to become one of the most celebrated jazz patrons of the twentieth century, befriending Thelonious Monk and living on her own extraordinary terms. Published in the UK, US and twelve territories.
