The Quality of Mercy (Hardcover) by Barry Unsworth

from Jeannine504

Although I will always read a Booker Man prize winner, this book was just okay. No surprises in the plot and no surprises in the language.

from vguy

Disappointing. Loved every other Unsworth I've read, but this is a falling off from Sacred Hunger, to which it is a sequel. Still highly readable yarn and has some good moments, especially the Irish fiddler and life among the miners. Weak link is the pivotal character Kemp. Meant to be cold calcu...

from SandDune

This is a sequel to Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger which I read (and enjoyed) many years ago, but it could be read as a stand-alone book without too much difficulty. It is 1767. Erasmus Kemp, a wealthy Liverpool merchant, has tracked down the seamen who mutinied against the captain of his father'...

from anyotherbizniz

A good read, that captures the era well, with as marvellously a dispiriting end as the book that told the earlier part of the story "Sacred Hunger". It's full of unlikely co-incidences, but so were all those the 19th Century novels, making this seem even more of it's time. But, while it's a good ...

from Mouldywarp

Thoroughly enjoyable - Unsworth seems to get even better with the passing years. I enjoyed this more than 'Sacred Hunger'.