It was a three-part drama series under the title of Fallen Angel, starring Charles Dance and Emilia Fox.

Marwood’s elderly father, Nathaniel, claims to have seen the body of a woman at Clifford’s Inn, where the court sits. The cubicle where she tweezes, epilates and massages is a confessional where her clients reveal their secrets. There’s a delicious blend of real and imagined characters lending an authenticity that enhances the narrative still further and reading The Ashes of London is a bit like peeling back the layers of history and society so that the reader feels as if they were actually present. Set in the immediate aftermath of the Great Fire of London in 1666, the central characters are James Marwood and Cat Lovett.

Dogged but prickly, and never having been “one of the boys” in any sense, she finds herself forced into early retirement. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. The heat, the winds, the burning embers, the almost spontaneous flaming and the fact that it went on for months after the main fire was subdued are all vividly portrayed in this novel, which is apparently the first in a series. The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice. He relates much of the always believable action in the first person and his gentle, sometimes frustrated, relationship with his dementia-affected father provides a touching counterpoint to the world of envy, self-seeking, debauchery, machinations and brutality in which he finds himself.

Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting.A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. I have read other works by the same author and, while they were far from perfect they were way better than this. Our features are original articles from our print magazines (these will say where they were originally published) or original articles commissioned for this site.

The story is steeped in politics, intrigue, betrayal, control and mystery so that I became absolutely spellbound in its telling. He has contributed the Grub Street column to The Author, the journal of the Society of Authors, since 2003.

In 2018 he published a sequel- The Fire Court, and the third of the series, The King's Evil, was released in March 2019.