Booth: Exclusive Edition (Hardback)

Booth: Exclusive Edition (Hardback)

Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2022

Sunday Times Historical Novel of the Year 2022

Exclusive Edition - featuring an exclusive essay

A Standard Edition is available here

Booth tells the story of the brilliant and disastrously ill-fated Booth family. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1820s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.

Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own dreams they must fight to realise - but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Booth is a riveting novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

ISBN: 2928377072551

Number of pages: 320

Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm

Edition: Main