''Kingdom Swann'' is an historical novel by the reclusive English writer

Miles Gibson Miles Gibson (born 1947) is a reclusive English novelist, poet and artist. Early life Gibson was born in a squatters camp at an abandoned World War II airbase, RAF Holmsley South in the New Forest, and raised in Mudeford, Dorset. The camp was d ...

, his fourth book, first published 1990 by William Heinemann, London, ISNM 0-434-29133-1, in paperback by Black Swan in 1991, and subsequently reprinted by the Do-Not Press, London, in 1998. It is a rambunctious satire on the dangerously thin line between art and pornography, fact and fantasy. The protagonist, Kingdom Swann (1825-1916) is a late

Victorian Victorian or Victorians may refer to: 19th century * Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign ** Victorian architecture ** Victorian house ** Victorian decorative arts ** Victorian fashion ** Victorian literature ...

painter of classical nudes on an epic scale who, turning to the new-fangled camera to capture his subjects, finds himself recording the erotic fantasies of a generation. "As in

Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (; born Daniel Foe; – 24 April 1731) was an English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel ''Robinson Crusoe'', published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its ...

's '' Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress'', a voyeuristic fascination plays games with high morality," reported Sabine Durrant in '' The Times''. The novel was adapted by David Nobbs as a feature-length drama ''Gentlemen's Relish'' for the BBC in 2001 starring Billy Connolly, Sarah Lancashire, and Douglas Henshallbr>
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Novels by Miles Gibson British satirical novels English novels 1990 British novels Novels about artists British novels adapted into films Heinemann (publisher) books {{1990s-satirical-novel-stub