Scarlet Town

Author: Leonora Nattrass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 ** A TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD **'Nattrass's best yet' - S.G. MACLEAN'Wonderfully evocative' - DAILY TELEGRAPH'Authentic and relentlessly pageturning' - SUNDAY EXPRESSA rigged election. A feuding Cornish town. A suspicious death. And a perspicacious pig.May 1796, and 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...Read more