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Jonathan Martin

By Ansgar Allen
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By Ansgar Allen
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In this novel Jonathan Martin, Ansgar Allen resurrects the incendiary life of the 19th-century outsider who, in 1829, set fire to York Minster. Martin's life - at once prophetic, deranged, and tragically emblematic of his age - becomes the ground for Allen's boldest experiment in historical fiction to date. Blending archival fragments, self-published pamphlets, trial records, and fictionalised reconstructions, Jonathan Martin asks: was Martin a prophet or a lunatic, an arsonist or a visiona...