Shadowplay: The Costa-shortlisted novel from the author of Star of the Sea

Joseph O'Connor

Jun 2019 · Random House

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Discover the award-winning historical novel about Bram Stoker’s time in London’s theatre world and the inspiration for Dracula.

London, 1878. Bram Stoker arrives from Dublin to manage Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre. Stoker is struggling with his writing career but the city stirs his imagination as he encounters dark rumours about Jack the Ripper. Soon, the eerie tale of Dracula begins to emerge, but if he is going to achieve his ambitions Stoker must resist both Irving’s demands and the allure of the brilliant and bold actress, Ellen Terry.

Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019
A Richard & Judy Book Club pick

'Breathtaking... A hugely entertaining book about the grand scope of friendship and love' Guardian

'A novel I'd recommend to anyone: a rollicking and moving story' James Naughtie, Radio Times

'Ingenious...hugely impressive and utterly haunting' Sunday Mirror

Discover the award-winning historical novel about Bram Stoker’s time in London’s theatre world and the inspiration for Dracula. London, 1878. Bram Stoker arrives from Dublin to manage Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre. Stoker is struggling with his writing career but the city stirs his imagination as...

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JOSEPH O’CONNOR was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Nielsen Golden Book Award, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book 2011), Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa Novel of the Year shortlist) and the previous books of his Rome Escape Line trilogy, My Father’s House (Hot Press Novel of the Year 2023) and The Ghosts of Rome (Irish Book Awards Book of the Year 2025). His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and in 2014 was appointed Frank McCourt Professor and Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

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JOSEPH O’CONNOR was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Nielsen Golden Book Award, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year...

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