โ Scribed by Robert Harris
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From the international bestselling author of Fatherlandand Munich, a gripping mystery and a fascinating cautionary tale.
"All civilizations consider themselves invulnerable; history warns us that none is."
1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote English village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death?
As Fairfax is drawn more deeply into the isolated community, everything he believes--about himself, his faith and the history of his world--is tested to destruction.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The Latest Novel From Robert Harris: Chosen As A Book Of The Year By The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail On Sunday, And Express What If Your Future Lies In The Past? _____________________________________ 'one Word: Wonderful. Two Words: Compulsive Reading. Three Words: Buy It Tomorrow
"1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts - coins, fragments of glass, human bones - which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his deat
The Latest Novel From Robert Harris: Chosen As A Book Of The Year By The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail On Sunday, And Express What If Your Future Lies In The Past? _____________________________________ 'one Word: Wonderful. Two Words: Compulsive Reading. Three Words: Buy It Tomorrow
"From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around
A young Dutch geologist Alfred Issendorf is determined to win fame for making a great discovery. To this end he joins a small geological expedition to the far north of Norway where he hopes to be the first to identify craters made by meteorites in the landscape. It is a harsh and deserted environmen
Beyond Sleep is a modern classic of European fiction, a hilarious and captivating story set beyond the edge of the civilized word, as one man approaches a breaking point.The young Dutch geologist Alfred Issendorf is determined to win fame for making a great discovery. To this end he joins a small ge