Awards

• Long-listed for HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown 2016 (UK)
• Long-listed for Walter Scott Prize 2016 (UK)
• Long-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2016
• Long-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2016.

Overview

An extraordinary novel about an extraordinary novel - Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers Shortlisted for the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown It is 31 March 1836. A new monthly periodical is launched entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contains four of his illustrations. The words to accompany them are written by a young journalist, under the pen-name Boz. The journalist's real name is Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers soon becomes a phenomenal, unprecedented sensation, read and discussed by the entire British Isles. Before long, its success is worldwide. Stephen Jarvis's novel tells of the dawning of the age of global celebrity. It is a story of colossal triumph and of the depths of tragedy, based on real events - and an expose of how an ambitious young writer stole another man's ideas.

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An outstanding debut novel. -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times * This is a masterpiece of imagination supported by a mountain of research. -- Christian House, 4 stars * Sunday Telegraph * This is a masterpiece of imagination supported by a mountain of research. -- Christian House, 4 stars * Sunday Telegraph * A novel as crowded, rude and brilliantly inventive as the great pre-Dickensian caricatures it celebrates. -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Observer * Some may view this book as a remarkable piece of literary detection, others a dazzlingly written and superbly imagined exposition on how art and writing are gestated and born. Or both. * Daily Mail *

An outstanding debut novel. -- Peter Kemp Sunday Times This is a masterpiece of imagination supported by a mountain of research. -- Christian House, 4 stars Sunday Telegraph This is a masterpiece of imagination supported by a mountain of research. -- Christian House, 4 stars Sunday Telegraph Some may view this book as a remarkable piece of literary detection, others a dazzlingly written and superbly imagined exposition on how art and writing are gestated and born. Or both. Daily Mail A huge and hugely impressive first novel for both fans of immersive reads and of Dickens' London. -- Joanne Wilkinson Booklist

An outstanding debut novel. -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times * This is a masterpiece of imagination supported by a mountain of research. -- Christian House, 4 stars * Sunday Telegraph * This is a masterpiece of imagination supported by a mountain of research. -- Christian House, 4 stars * Sunday Telegraph * A novel as crowded, rude and brilliantly inventive as the great pre-Dickensian caricatures it celebrates. -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Observer * Some may view this book as a remarkable piece of literary detection, others a dazzlingly written and superbly imagined exposition on how art and writing are gestated and born. Or both. * Daily Mail *

Author Information

Stephen Jarvis was born in Essex. Death and Mr Pickwick is his first novel.

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