Books by Gyles Brandreth
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review 1: Another thrilling installment. As always, I feel the need to read more by and about dear Mr. Wilde. However, Brandreth's research is extensive and also has a personal connection, being friends with his grandson and took tea as a student with a teacher who had known Oscar and Cons...
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review 1: Oscar Wilde invites his friends to attend a dinner at the Socrates Club and during the evening, they play a game of Who Would You Murder.... The very next day the people on the list begin to die. A woman is found dead from a fire, a man leaps to his death from a cliff, an elderl...
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review 1: Gyles Brandreth's series of Oscar Wilde mysteries continues with a tale centred on Paris with trips to Colorado, New York and London inbetween.The tale has a theatrical background with Sarah Bernhardt featuring strongly as Edmond La Grange, himself a top actor/manager, taking cen...
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review 1: Murder will out but uncovering the murderer almost proves incidental as we are given the grand tour of England—its royal halls, opium dens, hotels, music halls and restaurants. The novel is lush in its descriptions of late 19-century Britannia but the author wisely keeps us focus...
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review 1: Vastly superior compared to the last couple of books in this series, this one had maintained quite a grip over me for the past few days. It had Arthur Conan Doyle had its narrator, which really had improved the narrative. Also, the curious fact that the actual mystery had to be d...
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review 1: Just loved this book. It was a fascinating look into Oscar Wildes life and the time he lived in. If prisons were like they were in Oscar's time I feel there would be less crime.The ending is one that you would ever imagine and the characters are just that they are characters.The ...
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review 1: This series of novels is right up my street. Oscar Wilde in detective mode solving murders ably assisted by Robert Sherard and with cameos by Arthur Conan Doyle and other well-known people of the time. Rip-roaring, capturing Oscar Wilde's wit perfectly and whilst the stories are ...
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review 1: One of the many horrors of Christmas is being bought books which those who understand you very poorly think you might enjoy. This was just such a volume. If you're the sort of person who calls a quotation 'a quote', or who buys a fridge magnet with a 'saying' of Oscar Wilde on it...
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review 1: This is the second in the series of murder mysteries starring Oscar Wilde and his friend Robert Sherard. I enjoyed this one just as much - possibly even a bit more - than I did the first.Wilde has created The Socrates Club as a monthly get together with a group of his friends. Fr...
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review 1: A gorgeous read, just as the rest of the Oscar Wilde murder mysteries I've had the pleasure of reading to date. Absolutely perfect in regard to my personal interests and eye for detail, with beautiful style to the writing. I cannot praise Brandreth enough for his work on the se...
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review 1: Another very entertaining book in the series. I loved the theater atmosphere in Paris and Oscar’s excursion to the US. There are several great scenes which allude to Oscar Wilde’s later life (or death) like his visit to Reading gaol, his statement that he hopes his children will ...
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review 1: Oscar Wilde portrays wit at its pinnacle!! "I like men who have a future, and women who have a past" - Wilde really passes suave, witty comments! The book is very intelligently written, destined to amuse and entertain you while keeping the same suspense of the murders throughout ...
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review 1: The book had begun promisingly, with a multiple P-O-V structure, interspersed with adequately gothic tropes, dastardly crimes, and (finally!) Arthur Conan Doyle in fine form. But then it fizzled out like stale soda, with a rushed-yet-pointless ending. Something is seriously wrong...
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review 1: I've skipped out of order slightly to read this one - but as I get these from the library I'm not being picky. I don't think I've ruined the book in between this one and the last that I read either!I enjoyed this book - a little bit like a Victorian Da Vinci code - with a little...