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Michael Arditti
The irresistible return to fame of the remarkable child actor Master William Betty, mobbed by the masses, courted by royalty, and one of the most famous people in Georgian Britain
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A rich and powerful exploration of desire, sin and redemption, by one of our best chroniclers of faith in the 21st century
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Edwin is a retired bishop who has lost his faith. Marta, a child of the Warsaw Ghetto, is a controversial anthropologist. Their son, Clement, is a celebrated gay painter traumatized…
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A young boy discovers the ambiguity of adult affection. A camp comedian cracks up on stage. A picture-restorer learns to accept her husband’s true nature. A honeymoon couple take an…
Michal, Abigail and Bathsheba: three women trapped by circumstance.
They are the property of husbands, fathers and grandfathers; their own lives are out of their control. When they meet David…
Lyrical and witty, moving and profound, Widows and Orphans tells the story of Duncan Neville, a newspaper editor struggling to maintain the various aspects of his life which appear to…
The first published novel by the award-winning, bestselling and acclaimed Michael Arditti
A turbulent affair plays out in the pilgrim city of Lourdes
Lyrical and witty, moving and profound: the story of a good man fighting for his principles in a hostile world
Award-winning, bestselling author Michael Arditti’s tenth novel, documenting the history of homophobia and religion.
A masterful and subsersive retelling of the Biblical story of David and Bathsheba, by an award-winning novelist at the height of his powers
High Church ritual, evangelical revivalism and the ancestor-worship of the English gentry are all subjected to merciless scrutiny. This book is both a devastating portrait of Church of England and…
Philip Seward travels to the Philippines to investigate the case of a missionary priest imprisoned for murder, where he is drawn into a labyrinth of vice, violence, and corruption where…
A powerful novel about a gay man’s struggle to adopt the daughter of his late best friend
Gillian Freeman
‘Gillian Freeman is among the finest contemporary novelists.’ - Brigid Brophy, New Statesman ‘Realistic and unsentimental … Their relationship is handled with delicacy and has an authentic ring.’ - Sunday…
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