Book on freaks and P.T. Barnum to O'Mara

Michael O’Mara have bought World English rights in John Woolf’s Peerless Prodigies: Freaks, Circuses and the Extraordinary World of P.T. Barnum , a reworking of his Queen Victoria’s Freaks which won this year’s Biographers Club Prize for the best uncommissioned proposal.

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John Woolf

John Woolf

John Woolf was born in 1988 and read History at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was awarded two scholarships before gaining two further scholarships at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he worked on his fully-funded PhD. His doctorate explored nineteenth-century ‘freak shows&rsqu...More about John Woolf