The Book of Shadows (Kathryn Swinbrooke 4)Writing as C. L. Grace. The year is 1471. Shortly after the murderous takeover of the throne by Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, blackmailers thrive by challenging detractors of the new king. The ugliest threat to the people of Canterbury is the magus Tenebrae, who controls the Book of Shadows a grimoire of spells and magic containing secrets about the dead and the living. When Tenebrae is murdered, physician and apothecary Kathryn Swinbrooke is

he plunges into a bizarre world where he meets extraordinary creatures such as Glondocks

From the bestselling author of Love

has been uprooted from her home and taken to live on a remote yet populated island

Bliss was Peter Carey's astonishing first novel - a fast-moving extravaganza

Dust jacket is near fine with some shelf wear to the top of the spine

irresistible romance

He is sent by his old boss back to Germany and Italy to talk with the other members of the old spy ring to try to ascertain why people are being murdered and who is doing it and why it is only happening 17 years after their assignments

le Carr is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels

The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Nmenor at the end of the Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age

The Road from Damascusexplores themes as big as love

receives the news that his soldier brother Tom

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