Bride’s English don Jonty Stewart is in desperate need of a break from university life. Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 2 Jersey, 1906 St. Warning: Contains sensual m/m lovemaking and men in punts. Asked by the police to serve as their eyes and ears within the college, Jonty and Orlando risk exposing a love affair that could make them the killer s next target. All the victims have one thing in common: a penchant for men. Before long their friendship blossoms into more than either man had hoped. He strikes up an alliance with Jonty and soon finds himself heart deep in feelings he s never experienced. Orlando is a brilliant, introverted mathematician with very little experience of life outside the university walls. He also has a catalytic effect on Orlando Coppersmith. When he takes up a teaching post at the college where he studied, his dynamic style acts as an agent for change within the archaic institution. Jonty Stewart is handsome and outgoing, with blood as blue as his eyes. Bride’s College, Cambridge, England, 1905.
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One, "The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse," first appeared in a limited-edition, illustrated chapbook from Green Man Press. She has published seven short stories and novellas in US anthologies. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.įrom 1993 to 2003, Susanna Clarke was an editor at Simon and Schuster's Cambridge office, where she worked on their cookery list. She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. The following year she taught English in Bilbao. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. 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