The Devil is White
A Novel
$35.66
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2014
Summary
A masterly historic novel about a fleet of English abolitionists, their ne’er-do-well neighbours and a fateful utopian experiment. They say their devil is white…
It is 1792 and a group of English gentlemen is recruiting settlers for a new world. Anti-slavers, they foresee the shining vision of a free colony in Africa where all races and classes can live together in harmony.
More than a hundred men, women and children set sail from London bound for Muranda, an island off the we…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099572688 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099572680 |
| Author: | William Palmer |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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Historical fiction at its most immersive
Historical fiction at its most immersive – Emma Hagestadt * Independent *
About The Author
William Palmer
William Palmer is the author of five novels: The Good Republic, Leporello, The Contract, The Pardon of Saint Anne, and The India House, and a collection of short stories, Four Last Things. He was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the Society of Authors in 1997. A book of poems, The Island Rescue, won the Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers’ Week festival in Ireland in 2006. He reviews regularly for the Independent and other journals. He lives in south-west London.
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