1798. Three people, two brutal murders, one promise.
We’re following in the footsteps of the Academy of the Lynx, the first Scientific Society in Europe, whose library was lost for centuries. Golo Eck is on its trail, heading for Holland; his friend Fergus tracks another part of it in Ireland, where he becomes embroiled in the Irish rebellion against English rule, including the very bloody Battle of New Ross.
When Golo disappears during a shipwreck, his ward Ruan is left to fend for himself, a stranger in a strange land.
And then there is Greta, courageous messenger for the United Irish, who links all the differing strands together as we approach the final explosive conclusion.
Award-winning author Clio Gray has written a thrilling adventure steeped in historical fact – Barberini Bees, the Melissographia, Galileo, an Aztec Khipu, all play their parts - and will keep readers gripped to the very last page.
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Prologue: You Have To Kick A Mule To Get It Going
1: Half A Century In The Making
2: Bad Days, Bad Fleas
3: Good Bye Ring, Hello Road
4: Almost Stopped Before They’ve Started
5: Getting On, And Getting Luck On Their Side
6: When A Handkerchief Becomes The Sky
7: A Body For The Body Sweepers
8: A Corpse Can Be A Heavy Load
9: An Island Not So Green
10: Sea And Salt And Bees
11: Arrival And Arrest
12: Servants And Subhumation
13: Mordeciah Crook Is No More
14: The Grimalkin Clause
15: The Battle Of New Ross
16: Behemoths, And Other Wonders Of The Deep
17: Burning Barns, Burning Men
18: Sunken Roads And People Dying
19: Secret Societies, Secret Names
20: The Rising Of The Moon
21: To The Windmill All
22: Decisions Made
23: Battle Sworn
24: The Small Iniquities Of The Sewing Circle
25: Fevers, And Bad Old Men
26: And She Sees Maggots In Her Tidy House
27: St Drostan Forgets To Come Through
28: The Leaping Of The Lion
29: Fire, And Burning Ambition
30: From Sea To Servants
31: And Now The Athenaeum
32: To The Singel All
33: Wind And Water, And Those Waiting To Be Buried
34: Louisa’s Laying Out, And Laying Down To Die
35: George And The Guildsman
36: Stars Align
37: And More Intrigue Yet To Come
38: Guildsmen, Golo, And Slip-Sliding Eels
39: Brothers Betrayed
40: Confession And Confusion
41: Resolution And Sometime Redemption
42: And Right Back At You
43: Singing That Old Song
Historical Note
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Gray has received many awards for her writing. Winner of the Scotsman Orange Prize and the Harry Bowling Award, she has been nominated for the Man Booker and long listed for the Bailey’s. Born in Yorkshire, she has lived in the Scottish Highlands for over 30 years. A lover of books she has spent her working life in libraries, and when not writing books is highly likely to be reading them. She lives in a small Seaboard village on the east coast with her dogs. Please visit www.cliogray.comएक ही लेखक से अधिक ईबुक / संपादक
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