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A TRULY GRIPPING READ' - GUARDIAN 'FABULOUS, A DELIGHT' - S.G.
MACLEAN 'A FINE ADVENTURE REMINISCENT OF PATRICK O'BRIAN' - SUNDAY
TIMES This is the secret report of Laurence Jago. Ex-clerk.
Unwilling spy. Reluctant sailor. Accidental detective. New Year
1795, and Laurence Jago is aboard the Tankerville mail ship, en
route to Philadelphia. Ostensibly travelling as assistant to the
irrepressible journalist William Philpott, Laurence's real mission
is to aid the civil servant carrying a vital treaty to Congress. A
treaty that will prevent the Americans from joining with the French
in the war against Britain. However, when the civil servant meets
an unfortunate - and supposedly accidental - end and the treaty
disappears, Laurence realises only he can now prevent war with the
US. Trapped on the ship with travellers including two penniless
French aristocrats, an Irish actress and a dancing bear, Laurence
must hunt down both the lost treaty and the murderer, before he has
a tragic 'accident' himself... The new page-turning historical
mystery from the author of BLACK DROP, a 2021 TIMES Book of the
Year. Perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, Laura Shepherd-Robinson
and S.J. Parris.
** AN INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLER ** ** A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE
YEAR ** ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD ** **
LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL AWARD ** 'A
TRULY GRIPPING READ' - GUARDIAN 'FABULOUS, A DELIGHT' - S.G.
MACLEAN 'A FINE ADVENTURE REMINISCENT OF PATRICK O'BRIAN' - SUNDAY
TIMES This is the secret report of Laurence Jago. Unwilling spy.
Reluctant sailor. Accidental detective. New Year 1795, and Laurence
Jago is aboard the Tankerville mail ship, en route to Philadelphia.
Laurence is travelling undercover, supposedly as a journalist's
assistant. But his real mission is to protect a civil servant, en
route to Congress with a vital treaty that will stop the Americans
from joining the French in their war against Britain. When the
civil servant meets an unfortunate - and apparently accidental -
end, the treaty disappears, and Laurence realises that only he can
keep the Americans out of the war. Trapped on the ship with a
strange assortment of travellers including two penniless French
aristocrats, an Irish actress and a dancing bear, Laurence must
hunt down both the lost treaty and the murderer, before he has a
tragic 'accident' himself... The new page-turning historical
mystery from the author of BLACK DROP, a 2021 TIMES Book of the
Year. Perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, Laura Shepherd-Robinson
and S.J. Parris.
***A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR*** 'A joy from start
to finish' - ANDREW TAYLOR 'Thrilling... Deserves to be huge' -
EMMA STONEX This is the confession of Laurence Jago. Clerk.
Gentleman. Spy. July 1794, and London is filled with rumours of
revolution. The war against the French is not going in Britain's
favour, and negotiations with America are on a knife edge. Laurence
Jago, Foreign Office clerk, is ever more reliant on opium - the
Black Drop - to ease his nightmares. A highly sensitive letter,
whose contents could lead to the destruction of the British Army,
has been leaked to the press and Laurence is a suspect. Then he
discovers the body of a fellow clerk - a supposed suicide - and it
seems clear where the blame truly lies. But Laurence is certain
both of his friend's innocence, and that he was murdered. But after
years of hiding his own secrets from his powerful employers, can
Laurence find the true culprit without ending up on the gallows
himself?
'A wonderful and compelling murder mystery' - LOUISE FEIN 'A
brilliantly entertaining historical crime' - PHILIPPA EAST 'An
elegant, richly detailed, historical joy' - KATE GRIFFIN 1796. A
rigged election. A town at war. a murderer at large... Disgraced
former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago and his larger-than-life
employer the journalist William Philpott have escaped America - and
Philpott's near imprisonment for libel - by the skin of their
teeth. They return to Laurence's home town of Helston, Cornwall, in
the hope of rest and recuperation, but instead find themselves in
the middle of a tumultuous election that has the inhabitants of the
town at one another's throats. Only two men may vote in this rotten
borough, and when one of them dies in suspicious circumstances,
Laurence is ordered to investigate on behalf of the town's patron,
his old master the Duke of Leeds. But it is no easy matter, thanks
to the machinations of the rival political factions, not to mention
the riotous performances of Toby the Sapient Hog. Then the second
elector is poisoned and suspicion turns on the town doctor, the
gentle Pythagoras Jago, Laurence's own cousin. Suddenly Laurence
finds himself ensnared in generations of bad blood and petty
rivalries, with his cousin's fate in his hands... The new
page-turning historical mystery from the author of Black Drop, a
2021 Times Book of the Year, and Blue Water, a Waterstones Thriller
of the Month. Perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, Laura
Shepherd-Robinson and S.J. Parris.
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as
the anti-Radical founder of Cobbett's "Political Register" which
ran from 1802-35. This collection of his writings presents the
texts fully reset and annotated with biographical and analytical
introductions.
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as
the anti-Radical founder of Cobbett's "Political Register" which
ran from 1802-35. This collection of his writings presents the
texts fully reset and annotated with biographical and analytical
introductions.
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as
the anti-Radical founder of Cobbett's "Political Register" which
ran from 1802-35. This collection of his writings presents the
texts fully reset and annotated with biographical and analytical
introductions.
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as
the anti-Radical founder of Cobbett's "Political Register" which
ran from 1802-35. This collection of his writings presents the
texts fully reset and annotated with biographical and analytical
introductions.
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as
the anti-Radical founder of Cobbett's "Political Register" which
ran from 1802-35. This collection of his writings presents the
texts fully reset and annotated with biographical and analytical
introductions.
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as
the anti-Radical founder of Cobbett's "Political Register" which
ran from 1802-35. This collection of his writings presents the
texts fully reset and annotated with biographical and analytical
introductions.
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as
the anti-Radical founder of Cobbett's "Political Register" which
ran from 1802-35. This collection of his writings presents the
texts fully reset and annotated with biographical and analytical
introductions.
A TRULY GRIPPING READ' - GUARDIAN 'FABULOUS, A DELIGHT' - S.G.
MACLEAN 'A FINE ADVENTURE REMINISCENT OF PATRICK O'BRIAN' - SUNDAY
TIMES This is the secret report of Laurence Jago. Ex-clerk.
Unwilling spy. Reluctant sailor. Accidental detective. New Year
1795, and Laurence Jago is aboard the Tankerville mail ship, en
route to Philadelphia. Ostensibly travelling as assistant to the
irrepressible journalist William Philpott, Laurence's real mission
is to aid the civil servant carrying a vital treaty to Congress. A
treaty that will prevent the Americans from joining with the French
in the war against Britain. However, when the civil servant meets
an unfortunate - and supposedly accidental - end and the treaty
disappears, Laurence realises only he can now prevent war with the
US. Trapped on the ship with travellers including two penniless
French aristocrats, an Irish actress and a dancing bear, Laurence
must hunt down both the lost treaty and the murderer, before he has
a tragic 'accident' himself... The new page-turning historical
mystery from the author of BLACK DROP, a 2021 TIMES Book of the
Year. Perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, Laura Shepherd-Robinson
and S.J. Parris.
This book offers the first thoroughgoing literary analysis of
William Cobbett as a writer. Leonora Nattrass explores the nature
and effect of Cobbett's rhetorical strategies, showing through
close examination of a broad selection of his polemical writings
(from his early American journalism onwards) the complexity,
self-consciousness and skill of his stylistic procedures. Her close
readings examine the political implications of Cobbett's style
within the broader context of eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century political prose and argue that his perceived
ideological and stylistic flaws - inconsistency, bigotry, egoism
and political nostalgia - are in fact rhetorical strategies
designed to appeal to a range of usually polarized reading
audiences. Cobbett's ability to imagine and to address socially
divided readers within a single text, the book argues, constitutes
a politically disruptive challenge to prevailing political and
social assumptions about their respective rights, duties, needs and
abilities. This rereading revises a prevailing critical consensus
that Cobbett is an unselfconscious populist whose writings reflect
rather than challenge the ideological paradoxes and problems of his
time.
This book offers a thoroughgoing literary analysis of William
Cobbett as a writer. Leonora Nattrass explores the nature and
effect of Cobbett's rhetorical strategies, showing through close
examination of a broad selection of his polemical writings (from
his early American journalism onwards) the complexity,
self-consciousness and skill of his stylistic procedures. Her close
readings examine the political implications of Cobbett's style
within the broader context of eighteenth-and early
nineteenth-century political prose, and argue that his perceived
ideological and stylistic flaws - inconsistency, bigotry, egoism
and political nostalgia - are in fact rhetorical strategies
designed to appeal to a range of usually polarized reading
audiences. This re-reading revises a critical concensus that
Cobbett is an unselfconscious populist whose writings reflect
rather than challenge the ideological paradoxes and problems of his
time.
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