Palliser novels Palliser novels as a twenty-six part serial "The Pallisers", also using some material from Trollope's Barsetshire novel "The Small House at Allington" (1864). Unusually, this was in turn novelised in a single volume by John Garforth under the alias Tony Hussey. There was also a 12-part BBC Radio 4 "Classic Serial" dramatisation in 2004, which has been re-broadcast a number of times on BBC Radio 4 Extra. The serial was narrated by David Troughton as Trollope, with Ben Miles as Plantagenet Palliser and Sophie Thompson as Lady Glencora. Palliser novels The Palliser novels are six novels by Anthony Trollope. They
Palliser novels with life in the fictional county where the Palliser family is politically important. Plantagenet Palliser is a main character in the Palliser novels. First introduced as a minor character in "The Small House at Allington", one of the Barsetshire novels, Palliser is the heir presumptive to the dukedom of Omnium. Palliser is a quiet, hardworking, conscientious man whose chief ambition in life is to become Chancellor of the Exchequer. After an unwise flirtation with the married Lady Dumbello (daughter of Dr Grantly and granddaughter of the Reverend Mr Harding, characters in "The Warden" and "Barchester Towers"), he agrees to an