Nights at the Ballet

Nights at the Ballet tells the story of a beautiful woman and her treatment at the hands of two unscrupulous men, both vying for supremacy at the pinnacle of the Arts World. Rupert Seymour, Touring Director of the Royal Ballet, astonishes his friends and colleagues by falling in love with another man and abandoning his family after twenty years of marriage. His wife Catherine, deeply shocked, turns for comfort to Rupert's boss, Timothy Jacobs, the rough diamond from television, brought in over Rupert's head to shake up the effete image of the Royal Opera House and make it more accessible to the general public. Publication Date: 12th April 2015 Publisher: Yellow Rose Publications Available to purchase as an eBook from Amazon and Google Books. … [Find Out More...]

Anita: A Memoir

In 1969 the twenty-two year old Anne Dunhill was packed off on a cruise to Greece and Turkey with her Aunt Dorothy, leaving behind a violent first husband and a successful modelling career. The cruise ship docked in Venice, where she was introduced to Count Roberto Ferruzzi, a renowned Venetian artist nineteen years her senior, who offered her his protection and a refuge. They were to remain together for six years and have two children, Ingo and Anita. Anne’s memoir – inspired by and dedicated to the beautiful Anita, who died tragically of cancer in 2009 – deals frankly with their sometimes problematic and often tempestuous relationship, the parallels and differences between their lives and how they finally achieved harmony and reconciliation, only … [Find Out More...]

A Darker Shade of Love

It is London and it is the Sixties and for Angela everything is perfect. She is young and beautiful, able to enjoy the new freedom to the full. As a debutante and then as a model there is no shortage of young men vying for her attention, and so far her five years in London have been one long party: the men change and the jobs change but the party goes on. But sexual freedom does not live up to its billing and a life drifting from one casual affair to another leaves Angela restless and unfulfilled. Steve changes all that; he is different. At first she finds him annoyingly persistent in his advances but somehow he gradually breaks down her defences. He seems to understand her and care for her in a different way from the young men she has known. … [Find Out More...]

The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men

A poet, a women’s rights activist, and an expert on moral and natural philosophy, Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was known throughout Italy as the leading female intellectual of her age. Born into a family of Venetian physicians, she was encouraged to study, and, fortunately, she did not share the fate of many of her female contemporaries, who were forced to join convents or were pressured to marry early. Marinella enjoyed a long literary career, writing mainly religious, epic and pastoral poetry, and biographies of famous women in both verse and prose. Marinella’s “The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men” was first published in 1600, composed at a furious pace in answer to Giusepe Passi’s diatribe about women’s alleged … [Find Out More...]

The Double Cherry (formerly known as Web of Passion)

Jane had had what her friends regarded as a 'colourful' past. A sensationally brief marriage had been followed by a liaison with Giorgio, an Italian count. But living with Giorgio had turned out to be far from easy... Her best friend, Virginia - or rather Verge - had, on the other hand, a 'perfect' marriage to the Hon, Robin Askew. maybe he did take her rather for granted and it was unsatisfactory that his income was so reliant on gambling. And then there was Alex with his chronically ill wife, who seemed badly in need of comforting... A story of sexual passion and intrigue set in Venice and London in the 1970s, Web of Passion gives a steamy account of the tangle “nice” people can get themselves into when desire rules their actions, and examines … [Find Out More...]

About Anne Dunhill

Anne is a novelist and Italian translator. She is the granddaughter of Alfred Dunhill. After a much publicised debutante season in 1964, she became one of the few former debutantes to make it as a model, working in London, Milan and Paris between 1965 and 1969. Anne married her first husband Kenneth Sweet in 1968. In 1969 she went to Venice on holiday and remained there for six years, living with the Venetian artist Count Roberto Ferruzzi, with whom she had a son and daughter, Ingo and Anita (d.2009). In 1975 she returned to London and married Anthony Russell-Roberts who later became the Administrative Director of the Royal Ballet. They had two daughters, Tabitha and Juliet and divorced in 1998. She was a full time mother until 1986 when she did a BA in English and Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London. This led to two new careers as a novelist and translator. From 1996 to 2001 she was Arts Editor of Epicurean Life Magazine. In 2002 she did an MA in Representations of Italy at Royal Holloway and converted to Roman Catholicism. In 2020 Anne was married to Count Zdzislaw Zamoyski, who is a bereaved parent like herself.