Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Guardian Fiction PrizeThe most beloved comic figure in English literature decides that history hasn’t done him justice—it’s time for him to tell the whole unbut
From the pen of the writer whomPeter Ackroyd called "one of our best living novelists" comes a workthat is rich, strange, and wonderful. Welcomed in Shakespeare’s own land as themost original, excitin
He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail of blood is all that remains. He is a monster, Grendel, and all who know of him live in fear. Hro
An old man named Pickleherring, living in Restorationera London and claiming to be the actor in Shakespeare's troupe who originally played the Bard's most famous female roles, offers an instructive, s
