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It's Derby Day and all of England is heading for the Epsom Downs. Society beauties rub shoulders with Whitechapel street girls, as every class of society gathers with high hopes and taut nerves for the greatest race of the year. All through winter, from London to France, plans have been laid, money exchanged, disputes begun. And uniting the destinies of old Mr Gresham and his tigerish daughter, the rakish Mr Happerton and his crony Captain Raff, brooding Mr Davenant, Mr Pardew the burglar and detective Captain McTurk is the champion horse Tiberius. In this rich and exuberant novel, rife with the idioms of Victorian England, the mysteries pile high, propelling us towards the day of the great race, and we wait with bated breath as the story gallops to a finish that no one expects. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Derby Day
• Author: D J Taylor
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780099531999
• ISBN: 0099531992
• ID: 04457596
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 288 g
• Dimensions: 131 × 198 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. May 2012

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