The biography of RAF 'Ace' fighter pilot Charles 'Tich' Palliser, who fought against the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and in the defence of Malta.
In Victorian England, Dr. Courtine is invited to spend the days before Christmas with Austin, a friend from his youth, in the Cathedral Close of Thurchester. Courtine hopes to research an unsolved my
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
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,
At once a hypnotic murder mystery, scathing literary parody, soap opera, and brilliant pastiche, Betrayals is an astonishing virtuouso performance by a modern master of literary gamesmanship in the tr