This brilliant recasting of the classic story The Count of Monte Cristo centers on Ned Maddstone, a happy, charismatic, Oxford-bound seventeen-year-old whose rosy future is virtually pre-ordained. Handsome, confident, and talented, ne...

An irresistible novel by multi-talented Stephen Fry, author, film and television star, playwright and newspaper columnist. 'The spirits of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh glower benignly over this very funny first novel . . . An ingen...