Gregory DowlingGregory Dowling grew up in Bristol and lives in Venice. He read English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford. He published four thrillers in the 1980s and 1990s and then devoted himself to academic work and translation. He returned to fiction in 2015,with his novel set in 18th-century Venice, Ascension. The Four Horsemen, the sequel to Ascension, came out in 2017. Read More Read Less