Belle Nash and the Bath Circus

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>An hilarious caper through Regency Bath - wherein justice and bigotry collide with a bump</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Following on from </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> this second adventure in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Gay Street Chronicles</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> sees our hero return to Bath overcome by love and confusion only to learn how great is the suffering of others.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>At the end of his last adventure Belle was banished for four years to the island of Grenada. It is now 1835 and he is back in the city he grew up in and adores but misses the love he left behind in the Caribbean. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>His heartache leads to personal mishaps when he meets Pablo Fanque the Black equestrian acrobat from Norfolk who longs to set up his own circus. As a well-loved figure in Bath Belle uses his influence to try and help but has to run the gauntlet of Lord Servitude the most hated man in England and a die-hard supporter of slavery. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As ever William Keeling's whimsical tale brings Belle his gay hero into a situation where comedy does not obscure stark moral issues of prejudice and bigotry that are as alive today as they were in Regency times.</span></p><p></p><p></p>