Edward Wilson

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2002
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Catesby

1 - Envoy (Apr-2008)
2 - The Midnight Swimmer (Jan-2012)
3 - The Darkling Spy (Aug-2010)
4 - The Whitehall Mandarin (May-2014)
5 - A Very British Ending (Jul-2015)
6 - South Atlantic Requiem (Mar-2018)
7 - The Portrait of a Spy as a Young Man (Sep-2020)

Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • A River in May

    A magnificent debut novel, which follows in the spirit of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in which an alienated student named Lopez joins the Vietnam war to escape from his past and himself. Forced out of self-pity by the brutality and injustice surround...

  • Cicatrix

    CICATRIX recounts the sometimes strange and scaring adventures in Mexico of several sets of people as they travel the more than one thousand mile long road down the Baja California peninsula from Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas. Bones and Eugene chase a mo...

  • Envoy

    Catesby - 1

    "The Envoy", Edward Wilson's second novel, will prove familiar territory for fans on "A River in May". The setting is 1950s London, at the height of the Cold War. Kit Fournier is ostensibly a senior diplomat at the US embassy in Grosvenor Square who ...

  • The Darkling Spy

    Catesby - 3

    London, 1956. A generation of British spies are haunted by the ghosts of friends turned traitor. Henry Bone, a mandarin spymaster, learns that Butterfly is the holy grail of Cold War intellignce. In reality, he is an aristocratic pervert whose politi...

  • The Sibyl's Mistake

    The Sibyls Mistake recounts the summer adventures of several sets of American visitors to southern Italy. Frank Bones, at the beginning of a one-year sabbatical from the University of California at Berkley, has come to Naples to bask in the beautiful...

  • The Midnight Swimmer

    Catesby - 2

    Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglian fishing port, Catesby is a spy with a big anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves his country, but despises the class who run it. Loathed by the Americans and trusted by the Russians, Catesby ...

  • The Whitehall Mandarin

    Catesby - 4

    A captivating spy thriller taking the reader from 60s sex scandals to the Vietnam War, by a former special forces officer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre''The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised...

  • A Very British Ending

    Catesby - 5

    A gripping espionage thriller about an establishment plot to take control of 1970s Britain, by a writer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre''The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the ma...

  • South Atlantic Requiem

    Catesby - 6

    It is 1982 and the British prime minister and the Argentine president are both clinging to power. Downing Street, having ignored alarm bells coming from the South Atlantic, finds itself in a full-blown crisis when Argentina invades the remote and fo...



  • The Portrait of a Spy as a Young Man

    Catesby - 7

    In 1941, a teenage William Catesby is offered a place at the University of Cambridge, but decides to turn it down in favour of joining the army and supporting the war effort. In 2014, now in his nineties, Catesby recounts his story to his granddaught...

  • Australia Felix

    A unique life story captured in watercoloursIn sorrow and joy, good times and bad, Australia Felix is the fish-out-of-water story of one London man's attempt to live the Great Australian Dream in early colonial Melbourne.In a a series of quirky and h...

  • The Martyr of Carthage

  • Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Edward Wilson has published 13 books.

Edward Wilson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Edward Wilson, A River in May, was published in August 2002.

Yes. Edward Wilson has 1 series.
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