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Kidnap, cricket and cross-dressing: all in a day's work for Brian Thompson's Bella Wallis
Bella Wallis -- 'woman of mystery' -- returns in a scintillating new episode from prizewinning author ...
Brian Thompson was born in London in 1935 and now lives in Oxford. He has written two award-winning volumes of memoir: Keeping Mum (2006), winner of the Costa Prize for Biography and the PEN/Ackerley Prize, and Clever Girl (2007), longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. The Bella Wallis quartet comprises The Widow's Secret, The Sailor's Ransom, The Player's Curse and The Whole Story.
Meet Bella Wallis: a charismatic Victorian widow with a sideline in sensationalist novels and a fierce determination to seek revenge in print for what can never be achieved in real life
Bella Wallis -- 'woman of mystery' -- returns in a scintillating new episode from prizewinning author Brian Thompson