Darkmans

Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain''s most exciting literary talents.If history is a sick joke which keeps on repeating, then who keeps on telling it? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV''s jester, whose favourite skit was to burn people alive? Or could it be Andrew Boarde, physician to Henry VIII, who wro...