an action-adventure tale with postmodern flourishes an academic comedy spliced with period. Praise for Confessions of the Fox A cunning metafiction of vulpine versatility. To order Eureka for £7.64, Emily Wilding Davison for £11.04, or Confessions of the Fox for £12.74, go to guardianbookshop. Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent. Ultimately ambition gets the better of it, but Rosenberg has established himself here as an important new voice. With this dual narrative Rosenberg combines a gripping, if unorthodox, crime saga with a wry meta-literary look at the ways storytelling can be subverted and repurposed. Academic intrigue meets the 18th-century underworld in Rosenberg’s astonishing and mesmerizing debut, which.
Fisher does not shy away from describing the cruelty of the treatment that suffragettes received, but makes a convincing case for Davison having achieved a great deal more than simply being a martyr to the cause.ĭebut novelist Jordy Rosenberg hits the ground with confidence and verve with this tale of transgender 18th-century thief Jack Sheppard and his lover Edgeworth Bess – told partly in footnotes by present-day scholar Dr Voth, who has discovered a manuscript telling of their deeds. Fisher’s skilful biography unpacks the apparent contradictions in Davison’s life born into upper-middle-class privilege, a series of tragic reversals saw her family reduced to poverty and led her to become radicalised from a young age. Political journalist Lucy Fisher’s debut is a compelling examination of the short but eventful life of the suffragette Emily Davison, who sacrificed her life at the 1913 Derby, living up to her organisation’s maxim of “deeds not words”.
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