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Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
209 kr
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'A debut novel of great imagination and originality' - The Sunday Times'Think Hilary Mantel, Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke crossed with Liam O'Flaherty, Lady Gregory, WB Yeats and the Celtic Revival - all expertly blended into a cracking page-turner that's as exquisitely deep, beautiful and metaphysical as it is fast-paced and brilliantly plotted' - The Irish Times'Thrilling and intoxicating - a dazzling debut' - Evie Woods - author of The Lost Bookshop'A captivating story, weaving together so many emotions with such beautiful descriptions that you feel you really are standing by the shoulders of the characters' - Philip Paris - author of The Last Witch of ScotlandWhen ambitious apprentice chemist and secret alchemist Peter Woulfe is tasked with caring for a mysterious illustrated book, the Mutus Liber, he quickly realises that the grimy underworld of Georgian London is even more dangerous than he first believed.Soon the book is stolen by the light-fingered Sukie and Peter finds himself being pursued by threatening men who are willing to do anything to get the book back. Where in teeming London might Sukie be found? Why is Peter so enthralled by her? And what is it about the Mutus Liber that is so enticing? As the search for the book becomes an urgent game of cat and mouse, it seems that the key to Peter's present dilemma might only be found in half-remembered events from his childhood, and then further back still, in the mists of Irish myth.A spell-binding and unputdownable tale about spirit and matter, love and lust, and reality and magic.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
169 kr
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'A debut novel of great imagination and originality' - The Sunday Times'Think Hilary Mantel, Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke crossed with Liam O'Flaherty, Lady Gregory, WB Yeats and the Celtic Revival - all expertly blended into a cracking page-turner that's as exquisitely deep, beautiful and metaphysical as it is fast-paced and brilliantly plotted' - The Irish Times'Thrilling and intoxicating - a dazzling debut' - Evie Woods - author of The Lost Bookshop'A captivating story, weaving together so many emotions with such beautiful descriptions that you feel you really are standing by the shoulders of the characters' - Philip Paris - author of The Last Witch of ScotlandWhen ambitious apprentice chemist and secret alchemist Peter Woulfe is tasked with caring for a mysterious illustrated book, the Mutus Liber, he quickly realises that the grimy underworld of Georgian London is even more dangerous than he first believed.Soon the book is stolen by the light-fingered Sukie and Peter finds himself being pursued by threatening men who are willing to do anything to get the book back. Where in teeming London might Sukie be found? Why is Peter so enthralled by her? And what is it about the Mutus Liber that is so enticing? As the search for the book becomes an urgent game of cat and mouse, it seems that the key to Peter's present dilemma might only be found in half-remembered events from his childhood, and then further back still, in the mists of Irish myth.A spell-binding and unputdownable tale about spirit and matter, love and lust, and reality and magic.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
122 kr
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'A debut novel of great imagination and originality' - The Sunday Times'Thrilling and intoxicating - a dazzling debut' - Evie Woods - author of The Lost Bookshop'A captivating story, weaving together so many emotions with such beautiful descriptions that you feel you really are standing by the shoulders of the characters' - Philip Paris - author of The Last Witch of ScotlandMore than anything young alchemist Peter Woulfe wants to turn lead into gold. Until he meets the elusive and alluring Sukie one hot summer night and his life changes forever. Streetwise Sukie wants to sell a mysterious stolen book to her favourite pawnbroker Nico, until she meets his beautiful wife Katia. A gang of dangerous men pursue the missing book through the grimy underworld of 18th century London - and Katia realises the one thing she really wants is about to disappear forever.Everyone is burning for something ... even you.Could an encounter with a book change your life? Could this one? A riveting story of love and transformation that takes us back and forth through time from the raging furnaces of an alchemist's lab in Georgian London to the mists and magic of a remote Irish mountain.
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Engelska, 2024186 kr
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''A debut novel of great imagination and originality'' - The Sunday Times''Think Hilary Mantel, Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke crossed with Liam O''Flaherty, Lady Gregory, WB Yeats and the Celtic Revival - all expertly blended into a cracking page-turner that''s as exquisitely deep, beautiful and metaphysical as it is fast-paced and brilliantly plotted'' - The Irish Times''Thrilling and intoxicating - a dazzling debut'' - Evie Woods - author of The Lost Bookshop''A captivating story, weaving together so many emotions with such beautiful descriptions that you feel you really are standing by the shoulders of the characters'' - Philip Paris - author of The Last Witch of ScotlandWhen ambitious apprentice chemist and secret alchemist Peter Woulfe is tasked with caring for a mysterious illustrated book, the Mutus Liber, he quickly realises that the grimy underworld of Georgian London is even more dangerous than he first believed.Soon the book is stolen by the light-fingered Sukie and Peter finds himself being pursued by threatening men who are willing to do anything to get the book back. Where in teeming London might Sukie be found? Why is Peter so enthralled by her? And what is it about the Mutus Liber that is so enticing? As the search for the book becomes an urgent game of cat and mouse, it seems that the key to Peter''s present dilemma might only be found in half-remembered events from his childhood, and then further back still, in the mists of Irish myth.A spell-binding and unputdownable tale about spirit and matter, love and lust, and reality and magic.