ARGONAUT BOOKS

This is history as it should be written, where academic excellence meets gripping storytelling. SuperbAlice Loxton, author of ELEANORWild, weird and wonderful ... Maddy Pelling takes readers on a thrill ride through the filthy streets and dank rooms of Georgian England where the lies and deceptions that fooled a nation were born. Pelling is an expert storyteller, teasingly unravelling her tales, holding the reader as spellbound as those who fell for these hoaxes centuries earlier. A scintillating pleasure of a bookHallie Rubenhold, author of THE FIVEPlayful but powerful, Pelling is a magnetic ...Read More