Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth #joyce Collects issues #7-12

Collects issues #7-12

With three quarters of the Mediterranean’s coasts already in the hands of the Sultan and his allies

Following the year from spring to winter

A Northern Wind is the anticipated new volume in the landmark ‘Tales of a New Jerusalem’ series

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Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth #joyce Collects issues #7-12WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE 'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for "denying Holy Writ" . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's