Masters

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize: An “engrossing” novel of power, politics, and academic rivalry in 1930s England (The New York Times).

In 1937, the dark cloud of Nazi Germany hangs over Europe. Meanwhile, barrister Lewis Eliot is comfortably settled at Cambridge College, which is currently astir thanks to the imminent death of an ailing master. Little does the dying master know that two men a...