Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Guardian newspaper once called Charles Palliser, the American-born, England-raised novelist, “our leading contemporary Victorian novelist.” Which begs ...

Charles Palliser's debut novel, The Quincunx, was a vast and complex homage to the Victorian novel, full of interlinked puzzles and a Dickensian cast of characters, that became an international ...

In the spring of 1779, a third year Harvard student named Phillip Draper found himself suddenly exiled from Cambridge. Draper took leave from the University not for a vacation from the rigors of 18th ...

The Guardian newspaper once called Charles Palliser, the American-born, England-raised novelist, “our leading contemporary Victorian novelist.” Which begs the question of course: Is that even possible ...