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Oxford Knot
This is the fifth in the Kate Ivory series.
The title is a pun, of course. Kate Ivory,
mid-list historical novelist, has been sent on a tour of bookshops
and libraries by her publisher, in the company of a foul-mouthed,
drunken fellow author. While they meander back and forth
across the countryside, pursued by her companion’s motley
enemies, a tragedy is unfolding back in Oxford.
Like most authors I have given a number of library
and bookshop talks. Perhaps none of them has been quite as
awful as Kate’s in Oxford Knot, but certainly
I have arrived at a venue on a cold wet night in November
to find an audience of two readers, three librarians and a
dog.
Mike Ripley wrote in the Daily Telegraph:
‘Stallwood is funny, bitchy and sly about life in the
literary second division.’
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