Издания и произведения

Виртуозно написанный, беспощадно язвительный роман об Англии — уютной, благопристойной и… насквозь лживой. Интриганы-ученые и стареющие актрисы, бизнесмены, лавирующие между женами и любовницами, шантажисты, ловкие журналисты, охочие до сенсаций — таков многокрасочный фон, на котором разворачивается трагикомическая история немолодого ученого, ставшего жертвой самого изощренного и жестокого розыгрыша в истории мировой археологии.

Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he’s "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up an obscene idol in the coffin of a seventh-century bishop and scandalized a generation. The discovery was in fact the most outrageous archaeological hoax of the century, and Gerald has long known who was responsible and why. But to reveal the truth is to risk destroying the world of cozy compromises that, personally as well as professionally, he has long made his own. One of England's first openly gay novelists, Angus Wilson was a dirty realist who…