Booker Shortlist 2011 – Jamrach’s Menagerie

Jamrach’s Menagerie is not the book Carol Birch was intending to write.  She was researching another novel at the time she stumbled across the story of Jamrach, his Victorian menagerie and the escaped tiger roaming around London’s docklands.  So looking her gift tiger squarely in the mouth (sorry …), she began her 11th novel. Jamrach’s menagerie is a framing device; the hook [...]

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