| Description |
341 pages ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
Beginning in the Sudan and London of 1884, this extraordinary new novel is played out against the shambolic end of the Empire. Slovo draws on the lives of two real men: Charles Gordon, an heroic, hubristic, career army man whose refusal to obey orders helped bring down the Gladstone government, and W T Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, the father of tabloid journalism. Their story is intercuts with the tale of a poor, working woman in London. This is a book about destiny and about how wrong men can be; about foreign adventure and heroism doomed to failure; about women struggling to carve a place for themselves in the world; about political compromise and military mayhem |
| Analysis |
Historical fiction |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Subject |
Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912 -- Fiction.
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Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885 -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction, English.
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Husband and wife -- Fiction.
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English fiction -- 21st century.
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| SUBJECT |
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078210 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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Sudan -- History -- 1881-1899 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129607 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Reading nook.
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| LC no. |
2012358860 |
| ISBN |
9781844088140 hardback |
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1844088146 hardback |
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9781844086641 paperback |
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184408664X paperback |
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