SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of SNOBS and Oscar winning writer of the screenplay for GOSFORD PARK returns with a thrilling new novel

From the Oscar-winning writer of GOSFORD PARK and much loved-actor Julian Fellowes, a comedy that has been a runaway bestseller

From the much-loved actor and Oscar-winning writer of GOSFORD PARK and YOUNG VICTORIA - a runaway bestseller.

It is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War I - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are obtuse and decorative finale of an era.

Sunday Times bestselling author of SNOBS and Oscar winning writer of the screenplay for GOSFORD PARK returns with a thrilling new novel

Sunday Times bestselling author of SNOBS and Oscar winning writer of the screenplay for GOSFORD PARK returns with a thrilling new novel

Witty and enthralling contemporary comedy of manners set against the background of aristocracy, business and actors - by the Oscar winning screenplay writer of the movie 'Gosford Park'.

Witty and enthralling contemporary comedy of manners set against the background of aristocracy, business and actors - by the Oscar winning author of the movie Gosford Park. Read by the author, an actor who exemplifies the milieu he writes about.

The shooting script of the movie Gosford Park , which won the 2002 Oscar for best original screenplay. It contains the original screenplay, production stills, and full credits for the country house murder mystery.

The first published novel by the era-defining Nancy Mitford, written in 1931. Albert Gates, a surrealist painter of impeccable family, is greatly given to outrageous pranks; Jane Dacre finds him quite irresistible though the elder members of the shooting party are less enraptured. His victims include Lady Prague, whom he haunts disguised as the castle ghost, and General Murgatroyd, who will never