Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth #joyce visiting the Cyprus Museum in

visiting the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia and exploring the Roman ruins of Kourion- Cyprus’s most interesting areas

The four tragedies in this collection are accompanied by notes and an introduction to each text

Collects issues #7-12

BBC R4 Book of the Week ‘Brilliant’ Guardian ‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The Times

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth #joyce visiting the Cyprus Museum inWINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE 'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for "denying Holy Writ" . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's