Author:D J Taylor
A stuffed bear, a pet mouse, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens... Full of suspense and teeming with life, Kept is a Victorian mystery about the curious things men do to get - and keep - what they want.
August 1863. Henry Ireland, a failed landowner, dies unexpectedly in a riding accident, and his young widow disappears. Three years later his friend James Dixey, a celebrated naturalist, is found dead on his grounds with his throat torn out. Are these deaths connected? What has happened to Mrs Ireland? And what are the sinister bonds that link these men to the poaching of osprey eggs in Scotland, the doomned romance of Dixey's kitchen maid and the first Great Train Robbery?
A gripping tale, crafted with passion, and intelligence, and an honourable addendum to the golden age of the English novel
—— Simon Baker , New StatesmanA genuinely fascinating reading experience... A pageturner of the highest order. It is a genuine mystery - not a simple whodunnit but a constant revelation of a complex and tight-knit plot
—— Philippa Gregory , The TimesHe has a faultless ear for the varied nuances of mid-Victorian English... [and] takes a wicked pleasure in creating a dense underlay of references, a blend of historical fact and other authors' fiction which lies beneath his narrative and occasionally erupts into it... Clever and hugely readable
—— Andrew Taylor , IndependentTaylor's skill ensures the book never loses its grip... Hugely enjoyable...Conan Doyle, Dickens and Wilkie Collins knew how to do it, and Taylor has learned his lesson well... A great read. It intrigues, diverts and delights. It is clever and intricate and huge fun
—— Susan Hill , GuardianTaylor is marking out a territory as distinct and disturbing as Greenland, with the same imperative towards moral inquisition and a flatlands melancholy that is all his own
—— Hilary Mantel , Sunday TimesIntricate and vividly realised
—— Daily TelegraphTaylor is utterly enthralling
—— Bob Monkhouse , GuardianIntricate and vividly realised...a pin-sharp recreation of 19th-century life
—— Robert Douglas-Fairhurst , Daily TelegraphTaylor has a lot of fun with his premise, and readers should too
—— Suzi Feay , Independent on SundayTaylor] creates a vivid, kaleidoscopic world that constantly shifts before the reader's eyes
—— Judith Flanders , Sunday TelegraphRobert Harris's bullet-paced thriller... [It's] impossible to put this book down
—— Literary ReviewAn elegant and highly readable thriller
—— Douglas Hurd , SpectatorHarris's feel for political manoeuvring is buttressed by a strong sense of place and good fast pacing which the craftsman sustains to the final page
—— Times Literary SupplementIntelligent, perceptive and enormous fun
—— GuardianThe most fun I've had with a novel in ages
—— Nicholas Blincoe , Books of the Year, New StatesmanKnee-deep in intrigue and bristling with incident... An edgy journey through the dark corridors of power, a witty portrait of political and literary falsehoods, and a masterclass in gripping storytelling, Harris's dynamic novel is a page-turner of the old school.
—— Sunday Times CultureA contender for top thriller of 2010
—— Sun (Best books of 2010)A turbo-charged page-flipper: you're on page 300 before you take a breath...Child is a master of distances, spaces and the physics of opposing forces
—— The Scotsman
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