{"product_id":"9780006473374","title":"A Respectable Trade","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Gregory, Philippa, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/01\/1998,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 512 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Historical fiction\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780006473374\u003cbr\u003e Description:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum and slaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history and inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful, haunting, intensely disturbing, this is a novel of desire and shame, of individuals, of a society, and of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35020427559065,"sku":"9780006473374","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780006473374.jpg?v=1597574278","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9780006473374","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}