"There is something of E. M. Forster in Unsworth's knowing depiction of a decaying empire."—The New Yorker In this masterful work of historical fiction set during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, the schemes of Weste...

It is the spring of 1767, and the vengeful Erasmus Kemp has had the mutinous sailors of his father's ship brought back to London to stand trial on piracy charges. Much to Kemp's dismay, the Irish fiddler Sullivan has escaped, and retr...