Aly, Michelangelo's Son: Moorish slave turned artist, lover, conspirator, assassin...

This is a rollercoaster, not a book! One moment you will find yourself laughing out loud, the next reaching for a tissue - or biting the end off your pencil in shock. It is packed with surprise: famous masterpieces woven with secret inscriptions, dark history we were never taught at school, and most disturbing of all, every twist and turn exposes the hidden, and deadly mischief of language. We slowly realise that day by day, like the characters in the book, we too have been wandering blindly through the most sinister of perils – and as the familiar world crumbles around us, we find ourselves on the edge of our seats, wanting to clutch a pillow to our breast. The book takes us high above the world around us, where we can see that everything we thought was real was in fact a mirage, and in which all we took for granted has become an adventure. So be warned: this book cannot be unread. It takes us on a journey from which we will never be able to return. But if we really want to LIVE, it is a journey we dare not miss!