The Wicked Boy : Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017

Kate Summerscale

ISBN 10: 1408851164 / ISBN 13: 9781408851166

Edité par Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mär 2017, 2017

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Neuware - FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER'The queen of Victorian true crime is back' MAIL ON SUNDAYSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONOn 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his younger brother Nattie set out from their East London home to watch a cricket match. Over the next ten days they spend extravagantly, visiting the theatre and eating out. The boys tell neighbours their father has gone to sea, and their mother to visit family in Liverpool. But when a strange smell begins to emanate from the house, the police are called. What they find throws the press into a frenzy - and the boys into a highly publicised trial.'An accomplished feat of research and storytelling . . . Wrapping controversial issues into a tense, fluent narrative' HILARY MANTEL'Riveting . . . Once again the author proves a subtle pathologist, her scalpel slicing away the skin of late-Victorian Britain' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A remarkably heartening story' JOHN PRESTON, DAILY MAIL'An extraordinary book which will stay with you' DAILY EXPRESS'It would be impossible to read this dry-eyed' SPECTATORNote: There is a chance the book cover you receive may differ from the cover displayed here.

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• Titre: The Wicked Boy : Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017
• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mär 2017
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1408851164
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781408851166
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 198 L x 128 H x 30 P (en millimètres) 198 millimètres de largeur par 128 millimètres de hauteur par 30 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 358 grammes

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Synopsis

The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

À propos de l?auteur

Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in north London.