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Book Launch: Stephen May: Green Ink
19th March 2025, 6pm
Red Lion Books
£5.00

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 knows what really happened to Victor Grayson – he vanished one night in September 1920 – 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? Whatever the truth, Green Ink what might have been with brio, humour and humanity; and is a reminder that the past was once as alive as we are today.

‘A vivid and wholly credible recreation of post-Great War London – that threadbare, incendiary world of shabby intrigue, half-remembered figures now lost to the shadows, and an old order desperate to re-establish its corrupt credentials and squandered authority. All is imagined here in convincing and sardonic – and frequently hilarious – detail. Following the success of Sell Us The Rope, Stephen May has truly hit his stride’ – Robert Edric

Green Ink is Stephen May’s 7th novel. His other books include Life! Death! Prizes! (shortlisted for the Costa Prize and Sell Us The Rope about which Hilary Mantel wrote ” Original, adept and confident… What can I say, except I wish I had written it myself?’