"THE TIMES BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025 'Stephen May has a nose for fascinating historical events' The Times 'Very fine and fun novel' The Spectator 'Skilfully orchestrates a large cast of both historical and fictional characters' Financial Times 'The spry, sardonic voice of the new historical fiction' Hilary Mantel 'Vivid and wholly credible recreation of post-Great War London' Robert Edric 'Intrigue, betrayal, redemption' Rachel Seiffert David Lloyd George is at Chequers for the weekend with his mistress Frances Stevenson, fretting about the fact that his involvement in selling public honours is about to be revealed by one Victor Grayson. Victor is a bisexual hedonist and former firebrand socialist MP turned secret-service informant. Intent on rebuilding his profile as the leader of the revolutionary Left, he doesn’t know exactly how much of a hornet’s nest he’s stirred up. Doesn’t know that this is, in fact, his last day. No one really knows what happened to Victor Grayson – he vanished on