style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Giles Brandreth’s period series of Oscar Wilde’s criminal memoirs, cleverly mixing fiction and fact, has now reached its sixth volume and has arrived at the two years Wilde spent in the prisons that inspired his “Ballad of Reading Gaol”. Locked in a sunless cell, Wilde can only listen as a hated warder is tossed over a balcony and the prison chaplain is murdered. The whispering voice next door swears he did it all for Oscar, and promises to deliver a young abused boy, which is the last thing Oscar needs or wants.