Belle Nash and the Bath Circus

Back in England after four years' banishment in the Caribbean, Belle Nash tries to help Pablo Fanque, the black bare-back rider from Norfolk who longs to start his own circus, only to be thwarted by the hated Lord Servitude, a die-hard advocate of slavery. Set in 1835, William Keeling's second novel in The Gay Street Chronicles series balances a satire on the manners of the English with a stern morality tale about bigotry and racism.