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
