Green Ink

(Hardback)

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David Lloyd George is at Chequers for the weekend with his mistress Frances Stevenson, fretting about the fact that his involvement in selling public honours is about to be revealed by one Victor Grayson.

Victor is a bisexual hedonist and former firebrand Socialist MP turned secret service informant. Intent on rebuilding his profile as the leader of the revolutionary Left, he doesn't know exactly how much of a hornet's nest he's stirred up. Doesn't know that this is, in fact, his last day.

No one really knows what happened to Victor Grayson - he vanished one night in late September 1920, having threatened to reveal all he knew about the prime minister's involvement in selling honours. Was he murdered by the British government By enemies in the Socialist movement (who he had betrayed in the war) Did he fall in the Thames drunk Did he vanish to save his own life, and become an antiques dealer in Kent

Whatever the truth, Green Ink imagines what might have been with brio, humour and humanity; and is a reminder that the past was once as alive as we are today.

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Praise for Sell Us the Rope

'Original, adept and confident... What can I say, except that I wish I had written it myself' Hilary Mantel

'A deeply satisfying novel. Incisive, inventive, frequently very funny' Guardian

'Historical facts furnish May with a cast of legends to bring to life, and he does it with verve and humour' The Times

'Brilliant and original - part historical novel, part romantic comedy, and part bildungsroman about a tyrant-in-waiting' Marcel Theroux

'A captivating thought-experiment that marks a consolidation of May's powers as a writer' Daily Telegraph

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Author Bio

Stephen May is the author of six novels including Life! Death! Prizes! which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and The Guardian Not The Booker Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year and is a winner of the Media Wales Readers Prize. He has also written plays, as well as for television and film. He lives in West Yorkshire.