Shadowplay

byJoseph O'Connor

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Discover the award-winning historical novel about Bram Stoker’s time in London’s theatre world and the inspiration for Dracula.

London, 1878. Bram Stoker arrives from Dublin to manage Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre. Stoker is struggling with his writing career but the city stirs his imagination as he encounters dark rumours about Jack the Ripper. Soon, the eerie tale of Dracula begins to emerge, but if he is going to achieve his ambitions Stoker must resist both Irving’s demands and the allure of the brilliant and bold actress, Ellen Terry.

Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019
A Richard & Judy Book Club pick

'Breathtaking... A hugely entertaining book about the grand scope of friendship and love' Guardian

'A novel I'd recommend to anyone: a rollicking and moving story' James Naughtie, Radio Times

'Ingenious...hugely impressive and utterly haunting' Sunday Mirror

Dazzling...the panache and subtlety of his prose perfectly match that gusto and creative finesse of the High Victorian world his novel wonderfully evokes

Sunday Times

About Joseph O'Connor

Joseph O’Connor’s fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My Father’s House, a Washington Post Book of the Year. His work has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781473560017
  • Length: 416 pages
  • Price: £6.99
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