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Mr Timothy
On sale
13th October 2022
Price: £8.99
Genre
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
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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Reviews
One of the coolest books of the year
A darkly enchanting historical thriller
Louis Bayard's Mr. Timothy proves once again that John Murray's new fiction can do no wrong
Fabulous . . . shimmering . . . one truly engaging book
With a cast of unforgettable characters and a compelling plot . . . Mr. Timothy is a triumph
A Dickensian thriller . . . strong on atmosphere and characterisation
Bayard packs his novel with detail, grotesques and plenty of fog and hansom cabs . . . it scores full marks for atmosphere
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
A vividly imagined historical thriller
Dazzling . . . soaring language, memorable characters, splendidly atmospheric settings
Gripping page-turner . . . A memorable thriller
Vigorous, well imagined and thoroughly entertaining. Louis Bayard can write up a storm
Inventive and amusing
A crime caper with a twist
An historical crime novel . . . taking his cue from Dickens, Bayard packs his novel with plenty of detail, grotesques and plenty of fog
Highly atmospheric, splendid stuff