""English Passengers is an old-fashioned book in the best sense: epic in scale, crammed with outsize characters, set in a long-ago time and a faraway place.

In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, ...

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Feb 11, 2011 ... Narrated by over twenty distinct voices and full of dangerous humour, English Passengers combines wit, adventure and historical detail in a ...

Jun 28, 2012 ... An electrifying modern classic - Kneale's sweeping adventure story vividly brings a past age to lifeWINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD ...