A Man Against a Background of Flames

by Paul Hoggart

Overview

Ideas are dangerous . . .

James Appleby’s career as a social historian is drifting into mediocrity until the phone call that changes his life forever.

Appleby uncovers a dangerous secret hidden deep in a chest of 400-year-old documents. To his horror, its discovery ignites a global firestorm that threatens to engulf all that he loves.

Expertise in Elizabethan country life wasn’t supposed to be controversial. But when Appleby and his Dutch colleague Van Stumpe find evidence about the suppression of a heretical cult, they arouse the ire not just of Machiavellian academics, but a worldwide swathe of religious fundamentalists.

As the discoveries inspire thousands of followers, their enemies begin a murderous hunt from Amsterdam, to Washington, New York, and all over England.

And Appleby discovers just how dangerous ideas can be . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781906309480
Publisher:	Red Hen Press
Publication date:	10/19/2021
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Born in 1952, Paul Hoggart grew up in Hull, Leicester, and Birmingham, where he attended King Edward VI School, Edgbaston. He studied English at the University of York; taught English, Drama and Media Studies at schools and colleges in Leicester, London, and Kenya; and was a tutor in Popular Culture for the Open University.

Paul was a regular television columnist and critic for The Times and he has also written for The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Radio Times, Broadcast, The Stage, The Observer, GQ, and Punch.

He lives with his wife Elizabeth and their three children in north London. A Man Against a Background of Flames is his first novel, and he’s currently writing the sequel.