Barry Unsworth, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-31560-8
Set in 14th-century England, Unsworth's novel revolves around a theater troupe whose decision to enact a recent murder leads them to uncover a conspiracy. (Sept.)
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Barry Unsworth. Doubleday/Talese, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-53477-2
Unsworth’s sequel to his 1992 Booker Prize–winning Sacred Hunger centers on a 1767 London court case resulting from the slave ship mutiny of the previous novel. Pretrial maneuvering, in-court manipulation, out-of-court negotiations, and post-trial...
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Barry Unsworth, Author Nan A. Talese $22.5 (206p) ISBN 978-0-385-47953-0
A portentous opening sentence--``It was a death that began it all and another death that led us on''--sets the tone for Booker Prize winner Unsworth's (Sacred Hunger) gripping story. Indeed, a larger spectre than those two deaths hangs over this...
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Barry Unsworth, Author Nan A. Talese $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-26530-0
This vast, vividly realistic historical novel follows the crew of a slave-trading vessel from its Liverpool shipyard through days at anchor bartering human cargo on the Guinea Coast, then on beyond the slaver's disease-ridden and mutinous Middle...
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Barry Unsworth, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.45 (309p) ISBN 978-0-395-35412-4
She is the Madonna of the Annunciation, carved in Venice 540 years ago and now encrusted by an acid rain that rots the stone. Simon, an English sculptor who has turned to art restoration, labors ardently to save the statue's beauty. The stone is...
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Barry Unsworth, Author Nan A. Talese $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-48652-1
Unsworth (Sacred Hunger; Morality Play) delivers another memorable tour de force in this tense portrait of a London man obsessed with Britain's greatest naval hero, Lord Nelson. Charles Cleasby lives by the ""Horatio calendar,"" reenacting Nelson's...
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Barry Unsworth, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13 (247p) ISBN 978-0-393-31890-6
Signs of the powerful writing Unsworth later exhibited in his Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger distinguish this otherwise unfocused novel published in England in 1988 and released here for the first time. On one level a stinging diatribe against...
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Barry Unsworth, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-31721-3
The Booker Prize winner's (Sacred Hunger) tale of a Constantinople spy, informing on a village in the decaying Ottoman empire, who is caught in his own paranoia. (Nov.)
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Barry Unsworth, Author W. W. Norton & Company $11 (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-31632-2
An early story of innocence corrupted on an English estate from the Booker Prize-winning author. (July)
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Barry Unsworth, Author . Norton $13 (216p) ISBN 978-0-393-32147-0
The inner lives and secret loves of plastic pixie manufacturers animate the drab backstage of the tourist trade in Booker Prize–winner Unsworth's (Sacred Hunger; Morality Play) eloquent but predictable first novel, written in the 1960s...
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Barry Unsworth, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-03955-9
A gallery of creepy misfits stalk the grounds of an English estate in Unsworth's bizarre, intermittently seductive tale of obsession, an early work from the Booker Prize-winning (Sacred Hunger) novelist available for the first time in the U.S. Two...
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Barry Unsworth, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-31309-3
Unsworth's stories of familial secrets and revenge are in paper for the first time. (June)
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Barry Unsworth, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-393-31308-6
Unsworth's stories of familial secrets and revenge are in paper for the first time. (June)
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Barry Unsworth, Author . Doubleday/Talese $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-52007-2
Booker Prize–winning Unsworth (The Ruby in Her Navel
) sets his intelligent and timely new book in Mesopotamia during the spring of 1914, just before the chaos of WWI. John Somerville, a British archeologist desperate for fame, worries that...
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Barry Unsworth, Author . Doubleday/Talese $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-50963-3
Enticing titles are typical of Unsworth (Sacred Hunger
); his gleam, this time out, is dimmed by the setting. Thurstan Beauchamp, royal purveyor of pleasures and shows in the 12th-century Kingdom of Sicily, laboriously narrates his daily rounds,...
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Barry Unsworth, Author . National Geographic Directions $20 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6643-3
Booker Prize–winning novelist Unsworth (Sacred Hunger
, etc.) travels with his wife to the ancient island of Crete, where, according to the Greeks, "everything began." The island's history is gruesome due to centuries of...
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Barry Unsworth, Author . Doubleday/Talese $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-50114-9
Provocative and subversive, Unsworth's new novel rewrites ancient history to show how a wily, ambitious and power-hungry man can distort the truth, convince the masses to support him and incite his country to wage war. It's an audacious...
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