Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching, along with a birthday party for his wife, Lavinia, who is not going quietly into middle age. Her lavish costume party provides the revelers with a darkly comic resolution to romantic dalliance and political intrigue.
Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching...
In 1914, as the Great War looms, a disparate cast of characters is thrown together in the desert of Mesopotamia. Various interest groups - Turkish, German, British and American - are vying for control over the land and its strategic and economic prizes.
In 1914, as the Great War looms, a disparate cast of characters is thrown together in the desert of Mesopotamia. Various interest groups - Turkish, Ge...
It is the spring of 1767, and the vengeful Erasmus Kemp has had the mutinous sailors of his father s ship brought back to London to stand trial on piracy charges. Much to Kemp s dismay, the Irish fiddler Sullivan has escaped, and retrieving him proves too much in the midst of overseeing the dramatic legal case and a new business venture in the northern coal and steel industries of Thorpe. But the two men s paths are about to collide once again, for Sullivan is also on his way to Thorpe to fulfill the dying wish of his shipmate. With historical sweep and deep pathos, Unsworth explores...
It is the spring of 1767, and the vengeful Erasmus Kemp has had the mutinous sailors of his father s ship brought back to London to stand trial on ...
