TV Book Club

A novel of intrigue, violence and conflicted loyalties from the author of The Street Philosopher, Matthew Plampin. What price to take hold of the devil’s right hand? Spring, 1853. After a triumphant display at the Great Exhibition in London, the legendary American entrepreneur and inventor Colonel Samuel Colt expands his… Read More

At 11.30 on Monday morning the kettle went on in the HarperFiction kitchen and the biscuits were cracked open early. Five editors, three publicists and a designer tried to work out how to turn on the TV and seven minutes later we had lift off. We tuned in to The TV Book Club just in time to pretend we had all read everything Kafka had ever written and to watch the ads. But then, the moment we had all been waiting for - THE DEVIL'S ACRE and Matthew Plampin were on the telly! THE DEVIL'S ACRE, Matthew's second novel tells the story of the short life of Colonel Samuel Colt's Westminster gun factory, and his newly appointed London secretary, Edward Lowry. A desperate time for London's poor, Lowry shows us the underbelly of society when he begins an affair with a girl from the factory floor and discovers corruption is rife. Read More