Lord Byron's Jackal (ePub)

"In 'Lord Byron's Jackal,' David Crane brings Edward Trelawny - seaman, scoundrel, friend of Byron and Shelley and the original of Squire Trelawny - startlingly to life. Here is a wonderful adventure story about a man who invented himself in the image of the Byronic hero and lived to the hilt the final passionate and violent flowering of Romanticism in the cause of Greek independence."
STELLA TILLYARD

"Trelawny's career - which took in friendships with Shelley and Byro, numberless love affairs and a stint as a brigand chieftain - might serve as a plot for the most lurid kind of Victorian adventure novel; all kept going, as David Crane's excellent biography shows, by an egotism and a tendency to self-dramatise capable of putting even Byron's legendary monomania in the shade ... to which the episodes of his life (provide) a continuous fiery backdrop. This is a fascinating trip around the wilder shores of pre-Victorian Romantic life."
D J TAYLOR, 'Mail on Sunday'

"An outstanding biography."
JONATHAN KEATES, 'Spectator'

"Brillian t, written with an impressive combination of scholarship and verve."
ALETHEA HAYTER,'TLS'

"Even though Byron's Jackal looms enormously - and very entertainingly - in the foreground of this book, Crane provides a background equally detailed and vivid ... essential reading."
KATE SAUNDERS, 'New Statesman'

"Fascinating and oddly disturbing ... Crane vividly evokes the horror of revolution in which both sides were equally brutal. His is a complex book, but as a narrative of mingled fraud and genius it is altogether convincing."
JAN MORRIS, 'Independent'

"An excellent, often eloquent, biography."
JOHN MULLAN, 'Guardian'

"Splendidly readable."
JONATHAN BATE, 'Sunday Telegraph'

"An exuberant, tumbling, hyperbolic book."
JENNY UGLOW, 'Observer'