Books with author Ian Phillips

"Quigsnip" is a tale of Dickens' Oliver Twist, that Dickens himself seemed too frightened to tell, of a plotline which he began, but never finished.... Oliver Twist, the brave orphan boy who defied the workhouse board has found his rich family, and is now well-nourished, and living among luxury. He imagines his former life as a half-starved workhouse waif in the clutches of the infamous Fagin gang is far behind him. But one villain remains at large. He is a villain with an unknown connection to Oliver’s past. A villain who controls the entire underworld of Victorian London. A villain who will stop at nothing until he has destroyed all that the boy loves, before putting Oliver in his grave…