Cover of Green Ink

Green Ink

by Stephen May

2025ISBN 9781800754676

About this book

David Lloyd George is at Chequers for the weekend with his mistress Frances Stevenson, fretting about the fact that his involvement in selling public honours is about to be revealed by one Victor Grayson. Victor is a bisexual hedonist and former firebrand Socialist MP turned secret service informant. Intent on rebuilding his profile as the leader of the revolutionary Left, he doesn't know exactly how much of a hornet's nest he's stirred up. Doesn't know that this is, in fact, his last day. No one really knows what happened to Victor Grayson - he vanished one night in late September 1920, having threatened to reveal all he knew about the prime minister's involvement in selling honours. Was he murdered by the British government? By enemies in the Socialist movement (who he had betrayed in the war)? Did he fall in the Thames drunk? Did he vanish to save his own life, and become an antiques dealer in Kent? Whatever the truth, Green Ink imagines what might have been with brio, humour and humanity; and is a reminder that the past was once as alive as we are today.

Publication Details

Published
2025
ISBN
9781800754676
Language
en

About Stephen May

Stephen May was born and grew up in Bletchley, Bucks, UK - celebrated as the location of the top-secret wartime codebreaking centre, Bletchley Park. He is the author and illustrator of three picture books: 'Planet of the Monsters', 'Planet of the Monsters' and 'The Magic Birthday Cake'. His writing career grew initially out of his work as a children's storyteller for the library service of the multi-ethnic London borough of Lambeth. His first two books made a groundbreaking contribution to children's picture book literature in port.aying children of different ethnicities playing shared roles in an adventure context. They were also distinguished by their strident use of colour and childlike illustration style. Currently he lives in London where he teaches English language and is working on both a junior novel and a thriller for adults. (The books listed below are, other than those already mentioned, the works of different Stephen Mays!)

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