Matthew Sweet talks to author Sarah Perry about her gothic imagination, writing about religion, rationalism and disease in novels including The Essex Serpent, After Me Comes The Flood and Melmoth ...

His Melmoth the Wanderer was a critique of Catholicism following a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for living 150 years longer. Sarah Perry's version begins in Prague with a ...

Sarah Perry discusses Melmoth, her eagerly awaited novel after her award-winning The Essex Serpent.

Melmoth by Sarah Perry, review: 'A haunting book that speaks to mankind’s worst atrocities' Sarah Perry’s last book, 'The Essex Serpent', was a bestseller and a Waterstones Book of the Year 2016 ...

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth, creates worlds to disappear into, combining complex ideas and richly layered stories with beautiful, vivid prose.

WAITSFIELD, Vt. — Sarah Perry put a total solar eclipse in her new novel, “Enlightenment,” but — absurdly, in her opinion — had never seen one herself. So, this spring, she crossed the ...

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Enlightenment is a book by an author at the top of their game. And when that author is Sarah Perry, whose previous works include the bestselling The Essex Serpent and Melmoth, that’s high praise ...

Sarah Ferguson has praised the “brilliant” Matthew Perry in a tribute to the actor, who died at the age of 54 on Saturday, 28 October. In 1998, Ferguson appeared in the season 4 episode “The ...

The University of Essex has appointed an author with a "deep connection" to the county as its new chancellor. Sarah Perry wrote The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, After Me Comes the Flood and the non ...

Sarah Perry wrote The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, After Me Comes the Flood and the non-fictional tome Essex Girls.

She has also written the novels Melmoth, After Me Comes The Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. Dr Perry said: “It is a great honour to be appointed as the chancellor of the University of ...