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Title: Dictator’s Muse, The
Author: FARNDALE NIGEL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/06/2021
Imprint: DOUBLEDAY
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
From the bestselling author of The Blasphemer, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and
a Richard & Judy Bookclub PickIt is the early 1930s, and Europe is holding its breath. As
Hitler’s grip on power tightens, preparations are being made for the Berlin Olympics. Leni
Riefenstahl is the pioneering, sexually-liberated star film-maker of the Third Reich. She has
been chosen by Hitler to capture the Olympics on celluloid but is about to find that even his
closest friends have much to fear. Kim Newlands is the English athlete ‘sponsored’ by the
Blackshirts and devoted to his mercurial, socialite girlfriend Connie. He is driven by a desire
to win an Olympic gold but to do that he must first pretend to be someone he is not. Alun
Pryce is the Welsh communist sent to infiltrate the Blackshirts. When he befriends Kim and
Connie, his belief that the end justifies the means will be tested to the core. Through her
camera lens and memoirs, Leni is able to manipulate the truth about what happens when
their fates collide at the Olympics. But while some scenes from her life end up on the
cutting room floor, this does not mean they are lost forever…
ISBN: 9780857527189
Pages: 480