The Twitnam Summer

Published to mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Gulliver‘s Travels in 2026, this vividly told narrative history is set during the summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin with a draft of the novel in his bag. Evoking the “radical rage, the joy and stench of early 18th-century life” as well as its dawning spirit of satire, it is also a moving portrait of the friendship between Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay.