Bøger af Stuart Bennett

Jane Austen had at least a taste of London high life. In 1813 a barouche drove her around town in what she called "solitary elegance." Two years later, after a tour of his palatial Carlton House, she was invited to dedicate her last lifetime novel, Emma, to the Prince Regent. What if she had moved in such circles earlier? What if she had fallen in love? What if her banker brother, Henry Austen, had been caught in a web of corruption that did more than destroy his own enterprises? Lord Moira's Echo is both a love story and a tale of dark intrigue. It draws on unpublished archives to introduce an historical character who might have met Jane Austen during the very years when almost nothing is known about her. The story is told from two perspectives, Lord Moira's own, and that of a young Canadian musician, Vanessa Horwood, who was the protagonist of Stuart Bennett's previous novel, The Perfect Visit.

THE PERFECT VISIT: A NOVEL The Perfect Visit tells the story of two bibliophiles who go back in time to rescue lost books and manuscripts. Vanessa Horwood decides on Regency England; Ned Marston goes to Shakespeare's. But Vanessa wants to rewrite history. And Ned wants to meet the Bard himself. The novel takes its title from Jane Austen's Emma "it was a delightful visit - perfect, in being much too short." Vanessa and Ned both plan such perfect visits. And both reach their destinations. Then things go wrong and their sojourns become longer and more dangerous than either had ever imagined. Vanessa falls foul of the law, transported from Jane Austen's genteel world to the dark underbelly of a Regency prison. 1607 London shows an equally black side to Ned when he antagonises one of Shakespeare's rivals, escaping with his life only to find that an accident of time takes him only halfway home. Advance praise for The Perfect Visit "Stuart Bennett's remarkable visit to Regency England is compulsive reading, a treasure house of observation, perceptiveness and detail. Admirers of Jane Austen's novels will feel that they have truly come home." - Stephen Orgel, General Editor, The Pelican Shakespeare.

The Indifferent Suitor is the sequel to Stuart Bennett's The Perfect Visit. Trapped in the past and with every move they make a potential disaster, Vanessa Horwood and Ned Marston try to make the most of their misplaced lives in the year 1833. But Vanessa's aristocratic suitor has challenged Ned to a duel, and Ned knows that even wounding the man could change the course of history. And Vanessa has her own secret - a plan to try to change history in an altogether different way.