{"product_id":"the-mulberry-empire-9780007112272","title":"The Mulberry Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Prepare to be dazzled … A really terrific read’ Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘There is pleasure here, in passion and in absurdity, in landscape and in conversation, in costume and in food. There is pleasure, above all, in writing. A delightful entertainment, a timely social and political commentary, and a highly literary and ambitious novel.’ Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Outstanding…Hensher reveals the significance of the small moment, of great figures seen in close-up, and of a subtle, sensuous intimacy with the fabric of these long-gone lives. The effect is exhilarating.’ Helen Dunmore, The Times\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A huge, perhaps unique achievement…deeply human, gorgeous, glittering and never dull.’ Murrough O’Brien, Independent on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Exuberant, overflowing with life, highly-coloured, entrancing: a novel to lose yourself in…Nabokov said that the novelist must be storyteller, teacher, and enchanter. In this novel Hensher is triumphantly all three.’ Allan Massie, Scotsman\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Loaded with exotic local detail, from London to Calcutta, St Petersburg to Kabul…Irresistible.’ Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766673867095,"sku":"9780007112272","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780007112272.jpg?v=1758710782","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mulberry-empire-9780007112272","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}