The Coast of Utopia - SlipcaseThe Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. The three sequential, self contained plays, Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage, span the lives and loves of a group of Russian friends at home and abroad in the tumultuous years between 1833 and 1866.

An outstanding historical novel for fans of The Essex Serpent and Piranesi

And Portman finds himself at the top of the list

Uncle does not often go on holiday as very few hotels provide beds big enough for elephants

Geoffrey Staddon had left the woman he loved and the house which had been his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an architect

Inez sails to Cairo

and justice gone terribly wrong

apparently determined

Kathy sets off to follow some leads of her own - and finds out that going solo can be very dangerous

a struggling hack

1963: A Tory government beset by a defection

A deadly secret

had seen it as her sacred mission to cleanse the priory