{"product_id":"professor-and-the-parson-h-b-w2","title":"Adam Sisman: The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking [2019] hardback","description":"A Times Best Paperback of February 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ... This is a truly wonderful story' A. N. Wilson, Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of fibs and frauds' Sunday Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An utterly mad, and wholly delightful story of chicanery and fantasy' Simon Winchester\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist, fraudulent priest and imposter extraordinaire. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on Trevor-Roper's own detailed 'file on Peters', The Professor and the Parson is a witty and charming account of eccentricity, extraordinary narcissism and a life as wild and unlikely as any in fiction.","brand":"Sisman, Adam","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42324926595257,"sku":"9781788162111","price":16.25,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48945569235283,"sku":"XV81788162111","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/sisman-adam-adam-sisman-the-professor-and-the-parson-a-story-of-desire-deceit-and-defrocking-2019-hardback-57004058214739.jpg?v=1743104045","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/professor-and-the-parson-h-b-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}