{"product_id":"warlow-experiment-h-b-w2","title":"Alix Nathan: The Warlow Experiment [2019] hardback","description":"A Sunday Times fiction book of the year\u003cbr\u003eA Times Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA Daily Mail Historical Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An extraordinary, quite brilliant book' - C. J. Sansom\u003cbr\u003e'Original and gripping' - The Times\u003cbr\u003e'Powerful and unsettling' - Andrew Taylor\u003cbr\u003e'Engrossing ... compelling' - The Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e'Powerful, imaginative' - Literary Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat kind of person keeps a man underground for seven years?\u003cbr\u003eAnd who would agree to be part of such an experiment?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerbert Powyss lives on a small estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable cultivation of exotic plants and trees. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science - something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe hits on a radical experiment in isolation: for seven years a subject will inhabit three rooms in the cellar of the manor house, fitted out with books, paintings and even a chamber organ. Meals will arrive thrice daily via a dumbwaiter. The solitude will be totally unrelieved by any social contact; the subject will keep a diary of his daily thoughts and actions. The pay? Fifty pounds per annum, for life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly one man is desperate enough to apply for the job: John Warlow, a semi-literate labourer with a wife and six children to provide for. The experiment, a classic Enlightenment exercise gone more than a little mad, will have unforeseen consequences for all included. In this seductive tale of self-delusion and obsession, Alix Nathan has created an utterly transporting historical novel which is both elegant and unforgettably sinister.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBBC History Magazine Best Historical Fiction of 2019","brand":"Nathan, Alix","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42043867562169,"sku":"9781788161695","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":51115707269459,"sku":"XV81788161695","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/nathan-alix-alix-nathan-the-warlow-experiment-2019-hardback-9781788161695-1152205905.jpg?v=1748872934","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/warlow-experiment-h-b-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}