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A Street Named Cato, Paperback / softback Book

A Street Named Cato Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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A Street Named Cato is a fictionalised biography of Regency revolutionary, Arthur Thistlewood, 1774-1820.

Detailed here are his unhappy Lincolnshire childhood, his time as a mercenary fighting for republican France, his tortured private life as husband and father, most of all the years spent in London first as a peaceful then as a violent Radical aiming to assassinate Lord Liverpool's entire Cabinet.

This is a tale of wounded pride, continually thwarted ambition and bitter recriminations.

Amid a large cast of high and low born characters, Thistlewood's complex character stays firmly in view as we move inexorably towards the doomed plot of February 1820 and death on a Newgate gallows two months later.

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