Charles Palliser

In 1863, a sexually obsessed opium addict is sent away from Cambridge to live in the country where he becomes the lead suspect in a series of threatening letters and crimes in this new novel from the author of The Quincunx. 50,000 first printing.

Rustication: A Novel

Invited to the spend the holidays with his old friend, Austin, in the cathedral close of Thurchester, unworldly academic Dr. Courtine becomes engrossed in a haunting, two-hundred-year-old mystery with ties to both a medieval manuscript and to terrifying events in the present. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

The Unburied

Dr Courtine, an unworldly academic is visiting an old friend in the Cathedral town of Thurchester in the late 1870s. On his first night he is told the story of the town ghost, a legend deeply mired in the medieval intrigues of the Cathedral when two prominent churchmen met their deaths in unexplained circumstances. The story of dark deeds in the ancient close captures Courtine¿s donnish imagination, and he is also embarking on some amateur sleuthing of his own ¿ attempting to track down an elusive 11th century manuscript to prove his theories about the life of King Alfred. Suitably distracted, Courtine becomes the unwitting witness to a terrible crime committed on his own doorstep ¿

An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary—a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century—London itself. “So compulsively absorbing that reality disappears . . . One is swept along by those enduring emotions that defy modern art and a random universe: hunger for revenge, longing for justice and the fantasy secretly entertained by most people that the bad will be punished and the good rewarded.”—The New York Times “A virtuoso achievement . . . It is an epic, a tour de force, a staggeringly complex and tantalizingly layered tale that will keep readers engrossed in days. . . . The Quincunx will not disappoint you. It is, quite simply, superb.”—Chicago Sun-Times “A bold and vivid tale that invites the reader to get lost in the intoxicating rhythms of another world. And the invitation is irresistible.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A remarkable book . . . In mood, color, atmosphere and characters, this is Charles Dickens reincarnated . . . It is an immersing experience.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “To read the first pages is to be trapped for seven-hundred odd more: you cannot stop turning them.”—The New Yorker “Few books, at most a dozen or two in a lifetime, affect us this way. . . . For sheer intricacy and ingenuity, for skill and clarity of storytelling, it is the kind of book readers wait for, a book to get lost in.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

A Novel

The Quincunx

The Unburied Ome

The Unburied 10 Copy Pack

A historical sleuth in Victorian England solves an 11th century murder by reading manuscripts in a cathedral library. While there, a real-life murder occurs and he turns sleuth, but his sleuthing is a fiasco, casting doubt on his earlier findings and therefore his integrity as a historian.

Richard, jeune étudiant de dix-sept ans, est radié de l'université de Cambridge pour des raisons difficiles à avouer. C'est donc dans la demeure familiale qu'il décide de passer les fêtes de Noël, même s'il est loin d'être accueilli comme le fils prodigue. Sa mère et sa soeur n'ont qu'une seule envie, le voir disparaître. Une ambiance malsaine règne dans la maison, accentuée par le mystère qui entoure la mort du père survenue quelques mois auparavant. A cette atmosphère lugubre viennent s'ajouter des meurtres d'animaux et des lettres anonymes obscènes qui créent un climat de suspicion dans le village. Avec beaucoup de naïveté, Richard commence à mener une enquête et à consigner tous les événements dans son journal, sans se rendre compte qu'il attise les passions et que l'étau se resserre inexorablement autour de lui.

Mère et fille

Roman om en bitter kærlighedshistorie fra victoriatiden

The Sensationist

Ronald J.H. Jonkers

Rond 1800 raakt een Londense jongen bij de jacht op het testament van zijn grootvader verzeild in een net van intriges.

de erfenis van John Huffam

De Quincunx

'Rewarding, inventive and enjoyably perplexing' Sunday Times A colleague writes an obituary for a fellow scientist and Nobel Prize winner, somewhat relishing his death; a train in the Scottish Highlands takes the wrong track during a snowstorm, resulting in a death, possibly murder; a publisher's reader reports on a hospital romance novel that bizarrely ends with a gory, Ripper-style murder. Ten apparently separate stories are ingeniously drawn together to form variations on a single theme - obsession with the success of a rival and the plotting of his death. But obsession is an unstable motive for murder, and the game of revenge can turn very sour . . . Betrayals is an ingenious, mesmerising puzzle, intricately pieced together by a master of the art.

Charles Palliser

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