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Mr Timothy

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781399801973

Price: £8.99

ON SALE: 13th October 2022

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Thriller / Suspense

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A dazzling Dickensian thriller set in a Victorian underworld inspired by Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

It’s the Christmas season, and Tiny Tim is now grown up. No longer the pious child the world thought he was, he has just buried his father and is struggling to shed his financial ties to his benevolent ‘Uncle’ Ebenezer by losing himself in London’s dark underbelly. He spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures contained in their pockets.

One day he comes across a girl’s body, branded with a mysterious ‘G’. Then he finds another girl with a similar brand – but she is still alive. Determined to protect Philomela and get to the bottom of the mystery, Tim embarks on an astonishing adventure…

‘With its linguistic razzle-dazzle, Mr. Timothy is a mock-Victorian tour de force – a chilling shocker that touches the heart and makes it race’
Wall Street Journal

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One of the coolest books of the year
James Frey
A darkly enchanting historical thriller
Amazon.com
Louis Bayard's Mr. Timothy proves once again that John Murray's new fiction can do no wrong
The Bookseller
Fabulous . . . shimmering . . . one truly engaging book
Entertainment Weekly
With a cast of unforgettable characters and a compelling plot . . . Mr. Timothy is a triumph
Yorkshire Evening Post
A Dickensian thriller . . . strong on atmosphere and characterisation
Sunday Telegraph
Bayard packs his novel with detail, grotesques and plenty of fog and hansom cabs . . . it scores full marks for atmosphere
Publishing News
With its linguistic razzle-dazzle, Mr. Timothy is a mock-Victorian tour de force - a chilling shocker that touches the heart and makes it race
Wall Street Journal
A vividly imagined historical thriller
Elle
Dazzling . . . soaring language, memorable characters, splendidly atmospheric settings
People Magazine
Gripping page-turner . . . A memorable thriller
New Woman
Vigorous, well imagined and thoroughly entertaining. Louis Bayard can write up a storm
Literary Review
Inventive and amusing
New York Times
A crime caper with a twist
Bookseller
An historical crime novel . . . taking his cue from Dickens, Bayard packs his novel with plenty of detail, grotesques and plenty of fog
Publishing News
Highly atmospheric, splendid stuff
The Bookseller