To hear Leonie's interview about Catherine de Medici on BBC: Woman's Hour, simply click here: Woman's Hour

Number 1 Biography bestseller, The Independent
Number10 Non-Fiction bestseller, The Sunday Times
Number 4 in BBC History Magazine's Top Ten History Book

In February 2005, Catherine de Medici is being published in the USA by Fourth Estate, and later that year in Russian, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish and Czech translations.