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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 was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011), Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa Novel of the Year shortlist) and his Rome Escape Line Trilogy novels, My Father’s House, The Ghosts of Rome (Irish Book Awards Book of the Year) and The City of Echoes. His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781473560017
  • Length: 416 pages
  • Price: £5.99
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