num_pages: 505
description: Now a major TV series starring Martin Clunes, Arsher Ali and Art MalikFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011, an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten mystery...Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.This is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can prove.
language: English
title: Arthur & George
titlecomplete: Arthur & George
characters: George Edalji, Arthur Conan Doyle
genres: Historical, Literature, Crime, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 17916
places: Edinburgh, Scotland, Scotland, Midlands, England, Birmingham, England, England, West Midlands, England, Shropshire, West Midlands, England
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Vintage