KATE WILLIAMS – THE PLEASURES OF MEN

Congratulations to Kate Williams for the phenomenal set of reviews for her debut novel THE PLEASURES OF MEN.  You can watch a video interview with her here

A wonderfully ripe, imaginative and gripping piece of Victorian pastiche, with a spider’s web of a plot and a spine-tingling atmosphere of menace and suspense (The Times )
Fans of Sarah Waters will love this (Good Housekeeping )
The Pleasures of Men shares with Wolf Hall an ambitious, challenging concern with form combined with a pitch-perfect historical ear . . . This intoxicating and disturbing novel is properly thrilling and extraordinarily well-written. Kate Williams is already an accomplished biographer; The Pleasures of Men shows a soaring talent let loose (Independent on Sunday )
A dark story of murder and obsession (Elle )
Catherine Sorgeuil’s obsession with a series of murders of young girls in London’s East End enmeshes her in deceit, betrayal and danger. A spine-tingling, seductive thriller (Woman and Home )
An intense, intelligent and hugely entertaining read (The Guardian )
Historian Kate Williams successfully makes the move from non-fiction, creating a society, and protagonist, on the brink of hysteria (Psychologies )
A sure-footed evocation of seamy Victorian London (Sunday Telegraph )
Part-bodice-ripper, part-slasher, the book’s elaborate plot moves along at a brisk clip with a nod to the likes of Sarah Waters and Peter Ackroyd (Daily Mail )
As crowded with sensation as a Victorian parlour with furniture (The Scotsman )
Not since Sarah Waters have I seen so much lesbian sex in a historical novel (Mariella Frostrup Radio 4 Open Book )
Williams creates an extraordinary world with unforgettable characters and a dark heart – highly recommended (The Bookseller )
An eerie murder mystery set in the corrupt heart of Victorian London (Marie Claire Good Book Club pick )
This is a fast-paced thriller written by an expert on all things Victorian. Fans of Sarah Waters and Michel Faber will revel in this charged and colourful Victorian epic (The Bookseller )