Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé
by William Keeling
Description
Set in Regency Bath, in the early 1830s, Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé is a light period comedy with a strong moral backbone, and features a gay hero, Belle Nash, who is the star of a planned five-part series, The Gay Street Chronicles.
The story begins when Mrs Gaia Champion hosts her first supper after the death of her husband, who had been the main defender of legal justice in the fashionable city of Bath, in the West of England.
Sadly, the meal goes awry when a soufflé fails to rise. The failure is a mystery, but one that the book's hero, city councillor Bellerophon “Belle” Nash, determines to solve.
Assisted by a group of eccentric lady friends, Belle explores Gaia’s culinary mishap, only to expose a web of corruption at the heart of Regency Bath’s judicial system.
In doing so, he struggles to retain the love of his German boyfriend; and Princess Victoria persuades Gaia that all women can defeat the bonds of male repression.
Welcome to The Gay Street Chronicles.
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Endorsements
Jeanette Winterson
“Funny, clever, silly in the right way, and strangely moving in its unexpected ending. I love the alt-Regency Bath that Keeling has built.”
Alexander McCall Smith
“A real romp of a book—full of surprises!”
Peter Tatchell
“Bravo. A rollicking tale of corruption, intrigue and romance. A racy read!”
Matthew Parris
“By turns incisive, outlandish and hilarious! ... there's a brilliance in The Gay Street Chronicles, half- modern, half-Dickensian.”
Author Biography
William “Bill” Keeling is a former foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and exposed a multi- billion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria.
He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co- owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice.
William lives and writes in Somerset. Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé is the first in what will be a five-part series.
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- Publisher/Imprint EnvelopeBooks / BroadsheetBooks
- Publication Date March 2022
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781915023025
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 9.99 GBP
- Pages288
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2022
- Page size8" x 5" (203.2 x 127) mm
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