Palace of Shadows - October 2023 PREM1ER EditionAn outstanding historical novel for fans of The Essex Serpent and Piranesi, Ray Celestin's Palace of Shadows can lay claim to having at its centre the most Gothic House of them all . . . Im not asking you to build something impossible. Im asking you to build something that contains all the strangeness and confusion that you can muster. Samuel Etherstone, a penniless artist, is adrift in London. His disturbing art is shunned by patrons and critics

declines so rapidly

She fears for her life until two strangers save her

The Husband

A queen is rising

A truly beautiful and hypnotic first novel

In Mary's world there are simple truths

and his rule is simple: Hell help you find whatever was taken from you

As one character observes

On the glacial rim of erupting volcano Eyjafjallajokull

The launch of a new series inspired by Sherlock Holmes

who uses the library as her performance space

called Batty - where there are rumours of buried treasure