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Resolution
by AN Wilson, Atlantic Books, £16.99

This brilliant novel by AN Wilson concerns the Enlightenment, illustrated in the life of George Forster, a minor historical character of whom few of us may have heard.

As a youth, George, with his father, sails with Captain Cook on the Resolution to the South Seas. George helps to record the new species that his father catalogues. Afterwards, we follow George home to Germany, through his unhappy marriage, and into his involvement with the French Revolution.

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