Sweet Thames

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 294. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver to spine; decorative endpapers. Jacket artwork by Volker Sträter (priced at £14.95 to front flap).

A touch of page tanning, as is usual for this title, light edge-wear and rubbing to dustjacket, else Fine.

Author's third novel. Winner of the 1993 Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. A drainage engineer's obsessive quest to find the cause of the 1849 cholera epidemic takes him on a journey from the glittering cafes of Haymarket to the crime-infested slums of London. Kneale's first novel Whore Banquets won a 1987 Somerset Maugham Award, while his fourth English Passengers, won the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. "[A] vintage mystery story full of fascinating detail and human comedy." –Times