The Devil in the Marshalsea (Thomas Hawkins #1)

by Antonia Hodgson

‘Englishmen are mighty swearers’,

‘Be sober, be vigilant: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.’

This is the way stories are spilt—drowsily, in a scented room.

‘Easy to mistake good humour for good character.