David's new novel, a Victorian mystery that climaxes at the Derby of 1868, is published in the UK on 2 June 2011 by Chatto & Windus

As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs - high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel Street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and acrobats, punters and thieves. Uniting them all is the champion horse Tiberius, on whose performance half-a-dozen destinies depend...