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Barry Unsworth
The national bestseller: A medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time-and lessons for our own time-by a master storyteller.
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When he receives a tip about some mines for sale in East Durham, Kemp sees the business opportunity he has been waiting for, and he too makes his way north…
A brilliant novel, exquisitely precise in its analysis of evil twisting its way through ordinary lives. -Claire Hopley, Boston Globe
When two men disembark from the same boat in Greece, their lives accidentally and frighteningly intersect.
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Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the…
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For five hundred years a statue of the Madonna has watched over Venice. Now, dulled by time and pollution, she is prepared for restoration. As Simon Raikes immerses himself in…
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1914, and an English archaeologist called Somerville is fulfilling a lifelong dream: to direct an excavation in the desert of Mesopotamia. Yet forces beyond his control threaten his work. The…
Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Liverpool slave ship owner, has had the rebellious sailors of his father’s ship brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny…
In the basement of a large Victorian house in London, Charles Cleasby painstakingly re-enacts the great sea battles of his hero, Horatio Nelson. He is also writing a faithful biography…
In its romantic and dangerous tour of history, Barry Unsworth’s Stone Virgin rivals A. S. Byatt’s Possession.
As the wind holds the Greek fleet in the straits of Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood of a young woman. Agamemnon’s daughter is…
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A novel of revelation … haunting. -The New Yorker
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., London, in 2006 –Title page verso.
A story about 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…
In this edgy and masterfully written novel, Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth explores the themes of the corruption of innocence and the complications of lust.
[The Hide] has it all: imagination, character, dialogue and above all, plot… . It’s a scary book, written by a master tale-teller. -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review
A masterful tale by the author of Sacred Hunger and Stone Virgin . Set in 1908, on a small Greek island in the declining days of the Ottoman Empire, Pascali’s…
A powerfully done (Times Literary Supplement) and tantalizingly semi-autobiographical novel from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger.
Stunningly original… . Pulpy and juicy, full of wisdom and horror. -Los Angeles Times Book Review
Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth’s first novel, published for the first time in the United States.
It was a big day for Cuthbertson’s Regional School, and it would go off like a bomb.
Barry Unsworth has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers. In Land of Marvels, an historical thriller set in 1914, he brings to…
Set in the Middle Ages during the rule of the Norman kings, The Ruby in Her Navel is a tale in which the conflicts of the past portend the present…
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A novel about a group of travelling players touring England in 1390 in the years following the Black Death. Tired of presenting the usual mystery plays they decide to re-enact…
In this Booker Prize-winning work set in colonial America, Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son, who…
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army…
