Landscapes Book

An excellent book on a gripping subject. Lord Salisbury, the Prime Minister at the time of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 is at the head of a conspiracy to assassinate the Queen - or at the very least, his minions in Scotland Yard and the Home and Foreign Offices are financing Irish revolutionaries who are pledged ti kill her. It's all stirring stuff, and true!
Mr Campbell makes good use of his sources as the plot weaves from America to France, to Westminster Abbey on the fateful day and to the aftermath of dynamite cache discovery and show trials.
It's a great read, with my only proviso being the very depth of research displayed might leave a reader not as enthralled by the period as I am thinking the book a little over-detailed. I reveled in the details!
I re-mine much of the same materials in my fictional account of The Jubilee Plot, but I shamelessly add Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson and young Winston Churchill into the mix.
Fenian Fire is a must-read for anyone interested in Anglo-Irish relations and the Victorian police force's response to the Fenian threat against the Queen, her ministers and, curiously, the bridges of London.