WINNER 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 iniquitous greed . . . AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH AND ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT' - Anthony Quinn in the Independent
- ISBN10 1906100004
- ISBN13 9781906100001
- Publish Date 1 October 2007 (first published 27 February 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oak Tree Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 60
- Language English