'The Quality of Mercy' opens in the Spring of 1767, in the immediate aftermath of the events of Barry Unsworth's 'Sacred Hunger'. It follows the fortunes of two central characters from that book: Sullivan, an Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, the son of a disgraced Liverpool slave-ship owner who hanged himself.
'The Quality of Mercy' opens in the Spring of 1767, in the immediate aftermath of the events of Barry Unsworth's 'Sacred Hunger'. It follows the fortu...
In a basement in North London, Charles Cleasby re-enacts the life of Lord Nelson. But as evidence comes to light that questions the heroism of his idol, Charles is overwhelmed by the ensuing identity crisis.
In a basement in North London, Charles Cleasby re-enacts the life of Lord Nelson. But as evidence comes to light that questions the heroism of his ido...
When conservationist Simon Raikes goes to Venice to restore a statue of the Madonna, he is unprepared for the effect this stone Virgin's strange, seductive beauty and mysterious past will have on his life.
When conservationist Simon Raikes goes to Venice to restore a statue of the Madonna, he is unprepared for the effect this stone Virgin's strange, sedu...
WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE 'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for -denying Holy Writ- . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's iniquitous greed . . . AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH AND ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT' - Anthony Quinn in the...
WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE 'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted for...
