Five Stories selected and read by Martin Jarvis. The stories include - The Christmas Truce, Only Just In Time, The Midnight Adventure of Miss Montague, William and the Musician and William Leads a Better Life.
Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family’s...