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Emily Brand

Fall of the House of Byron

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781473664326
  • Weight: 260g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Feb 2021
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

THE RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

'Gobsmacking' The Times

'Luscious' Mail on Sunday

'Delectable . . . ravishing' Sunday Times

'A chocolate box full of delicious gothic delights - jump in' Lucy Worsley

'Stranger than fiction, as dark as any gothic drama . . . utterly gripping' Amanda Foreman

'Brings to life the colourful characters of the Georgian era's most notorious families with all the verve and skill of the era's finest novelists . . . A powdered and pomaded, sordid and silk-swathed adventure' Hallie Rubenhold



Many know Lord Byron as leading poet of the Romantic movement. But few know the dynasty from which he emerged; infamous for its scandal and impropriety, with tales of elopement, murder, kidnaping, profligacy, doomed romance and adultery. A sumptuous story that begins in rural Nottinghamshire and plays out in the gentleman's clubs of Georgian London, amid tempests on far-flung seas, and in the glamour of pre-revolutionary France, The Fall of the House of Byron is the acclaimed account of intense family drama over three turbulent generations.
About Emily Brand
Emily Brand is an author, historian and genealogist specialising in social history and romantic relationships during the long eighteenth century. She has written for The Times, Daily Telegraph, Radio Times and Washington Post, and previously worked as an editor of history and classic literature for the University of Oxford. The Fall of the House of Byron was selected for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and the Sunday Times 'Best Summer Reads' 2020, and was shortlisted for the Elma Dangerfield Prize.