Not only is he a prodigiously talented writer, but he was also a wonderfully engaging and interesting speaker who was thought provoking and inspiring.ĭespite the almost universal acclaim his book has received, Charles remains humble and grounded. We were so lucky to be joined at this week’s Book Club by the eminent author Charles Palliser, to discuss his outstanding magnum opus The Quincunx. A Waterstones review said: ‘It is everything you could want in a Victorian novel: episodic, all-encompassing and packed with denouements at every turn.’
The Quincunx is 1,200 pages of pure brilliance, which has been described as ‘more Dickensian than Dickens’ and ‘more Collins than Collins ever was’. This is a Goliath of a book, both in size and in substance. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1991)
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