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Gyles Brandreth's Books
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Oscar Wilde and the Vampire MurdersOscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders opens in 1890, at a glamorous party hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All of London's high...Read More -
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's SmileThis shining star of historical crime fiction returns with the eagerly anticipated addition to the series that Booklist hails as "pitch-perfect."Read More
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Oscar Wilde and a Game Called MurderThe second witty installment in an astonishingly authentic historical mystery series featuring detective Oscar Wilde and his partner in crime, Arthur...Read More
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No ImportanceOne of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteries Lovers of...Read More
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Oscar Wilde and the Vatican MurdersOscar Wilde makes a triumphant return in the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed historical mystery series, featuring Wilde as the detective aided...Read More
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Authors on the Web
Politics.co.uk, January 13, 2012
...politicians life; being an author, for instance. Several British MPs have written books while still in office including Gyles Brandreth and Louise Mensch, but these are the exceptions rather than the rule. For any celebrity wishing to become a politician...
Ventnor Blog, January 1, 2012
...Super 8 Mr Popper’s Penguins The Inbetweeners Movie SpyKids – All the time in the world Fiction Gyles BRANDRETH, Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers ? murder mystery Malcolm PRYCE, The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still ? A Louise Knight Mystery and four...
The Scotsman, December 9, 2011
...up the steps to the first floor of 221B Baker Street with creditable panache, I remain loyal to Gyles Brandreth’s Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders (John Murray, £18.99). Every element is in place: historical accuracy (yes, Oscar did meet the Pope....
Mail Online UK, November 17, 2011
...characters, who though they never actually lived can also never die. I wonder if Dirda has come across Gyles Brandreth’s wonderful and plausible romps, where Oscar Wilde plays the role of the detective? Wilde and Doyle did once meet - at the Langham...
Mail Online UK, November 16, 2011
...book, All Hell Let Loose: The World At War 1939-1945, has garnered rave reviews. As usual, the indomitable Gyles Brandreth will be in the Chair and may be persuaded to tell us a little about his new novel, Oscar Wilde And The Vatican Murders. Our lunch...
The Scotsman, November 4, 2011
...Our books editor goes Wilde about this particular murder mystery By Gyles Brandreth John Murray, 325pp, £18.99 AS JULIAN Barnes’s 2005 novel Arthur and George reminded us, Arthur Conan Doyle often received letters asking him to solve real-life cases...
Mail Online UK, October 9, 2011
...Aldeburgh. It is always little Melvyn Bragg, P. D. James, A. S. Byatt, Sebastian Faulks or Debo Devonshire. Gyles Brandreth appears at several simultaneously. No wonder I’m glum and disillusioned. But anyway — Sylvia at our local The Falcon said...
Matthew Harris, October 2, 2011
...I was outraged to hear Gyles Brandreth say on Just A Minute: "The one thing I could not stand about being an MP were my constituents." Mr Brandreth knows perfectly well that he should have...
Tired of London, Tired of Life, September 24, 2011
...at the Soho Theatre in Dean Street.Flogging books today are the likes of Melvyn Bragg, Judith Kerr, Gyles Brandreth and Maureen Lipman, and if you are interested in popping in, the PR bods tell me that Tired of London, Tired of Life readers can get two...
All articles at Blogcritics, June 29, 2011
...of those guys rewriting fiction to add zombies or vampires but an interesting writer in his own right. Gyles Brandreth is well known in Great Britian as a television personality, author of biographies of members the royal family and other projects. You...
Becky's Book Reviews, June 19, 2011
...Who Played Brahms . Lilian Jackson Braun. 1987. Penguin. 256 pages. Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance . Gyles Brandreth. 2007. Simon & Schuster. 368 pages. Fer-de-lance . A Nero Wolfe Mystery. Rex Stout. 1934/1997. Random House. 304 pages. Clouds...
Becky's Book Reviews, June 15, 2011
...and Dorothy Sayers The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder by Gyles Brandreth Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs: A Dixie Hemingway mystery by Blaize Clement Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons: A Dixie Hemingway mystery by...
Becky's Book Reviews, June 11, 2011
...and Dorothy Sayers The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder by Gyles Brandreth Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs: A Dixie Hemingway mystery by Blaize Clement Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons: A Dixie Hemingway mystery by...
Becky's Book Reviews, June 4, 2011
...Saramago, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance by Gyles Brandreth Leftover Loot: The Nursing Home Murders by Ngaio Marsh Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh The Last Unicorn by Peter S....
