Damian Dibben – The Book Diva's Reads

THE COLOR STORM book cover, script font with THE COLOR STORM at the top of the cover with a wash of colors behind it (yellow/orange/red/purple/blue), A NOVEL OF RENAISSANCE VENICE in a smaller, gold colored font is under the main title; Renaissance line drawing of Venice is shown with some color for the domes/roofs of buildings, also features people walking on wide sidewalk, books coming into the harbor, and clouds above the buildings and below the title.

The Color Storm by Damian Dibben
ISBN: 9781335015938 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781488057236 (ebook)
ISBN: 9781488214240 (digital audiobook)
ISBN: 9798200916276 (Audiobook on CD)
ASIN: B0B482DYMF (Audible audiobook)
ASIN: B09GFZW1V8 (Kindle edition)
Page Count: 336
Release Date: September 6, 2022
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Genre: Fiction | Historical Fiction | Historical Thriller

Enter the world of Renaissance Venice, where the competition for fame and fortune can mean life or death…

Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary color. Yet artist Giorgione “Zorzo” Barbarelli’s career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumor of a mysterious new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the color and secure his name in history.

Winning a commission to paint a portrait of the man’s wife, Sybille, Zorzo thinks he has found a way into the merchant’s favor. Instead, he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy that stretches across Europe and a marriage coming apart inside one of the floating city’s most illustrious palazzi.

As the water levels rise and the plague creeps ever closer, an increasingly desperate Zorzo isn’t sure whom he can trust. Will Sybille prove to be the key to Zorzo’s success or the reason for his downfall?

Atmospheric and suspenseful and filled with the famous artists of the era, The Color Storm is an intoxicating story of art and ambition, love and obsession.

Praise for The Color Storm:

“The Color Storm is an engaging thriller and a compelling exploration of an artist’s obsession with love and color.” —Sunday Times

“As with all intoxicating quest stories vividly told, The Color Storm by Damian Dibben, transports us to a heady other world, where it’s possible to feel the sirocco winds whistling across Venice and bathe in the cerulean skies of the Italian Renaissance. With master artists, Giorgione, Bellini, and Leonardo da Vinci along for the ride, the reader will want to walk and then run to join a fierce competition to create beauty anew and discover a color so rare and sublime it’s said to come from the stars.” —Lisa Rochon, author of Tuscan Daughter

“Ravishing, addictive, knife-sharp, ambitious, and singing with detail, The Color Storm had me in its grip from the first moment I began reading. Here is a compelling thriller that takes us to the heart of sixteenth-century Venice where the world’s most famous painters compete to win the greatest commission of their lives, and to find a rumored new color that will make their names immortal, while the threat of the plague comes ever closer. There is so much to think about and relish. Not simply the story itself—with all its glorious twists and turns—but the search to express ourselves. A celebration of art and a hymn to color.” —Rachel Joyce, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Benson’s Beetle

“The Color Storm takes readers on a thrilling, murderous journey through the serpentine waters of High Renaissance Venice as one of art history’s most gifted but often overlooked painters—Giorgione—searches for love, fame, and, most importantly, color. Written with language as vibrant as a Giorgione masterpiece, The Color Storm is for lovers of art, Italy, and page-turning plot.” —Stephanie Storey, author of Raphael, Painter in Rome

Meet the Author

Brown-haired white male wearing black glasses and a gray long-sleeve top with yellow & black flowers and gray pants, seated with his right arm resting on his knee and his right hand under his chin — Damian Dibben photo by Leia Morrison

DAMIAN DIBBEN is the bestselling British author of Tomorrow and History Keepers series. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages in over forty countries. Damian has worked extensively as a screenwriter on projects as diverse as The Phantom of the Opera and Puss in Boots. He lives on London’s Southbank with his partner Ali and his three dogs Dudley, Daphne, and Velvet.