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See more ideas about books, books to read and my books. See the newest novels, discuss with other book lovers, buy romance books online. Holsinger incorporates a lot of historical events and people that makes the fictional storyline come to life. This is chaucers london, it is 85, a time of flux especially for the young. The hunt for a book of seditious poems is at the heart of medievalist bruce holsingers detailpacked new novel. This historical novel is set in postplague london during the reign of richard ii.
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See more ideas about books, reading and books to read. A burnable book, bruce holsingers debut novel is set in england during the reign of richard ii. Here in the pages of bruce holsingers medieval adventure, that randy old poet finally gets the mission impossible cameo he deserves. His first two novels, a burnable book and the invention of fire, are set in and around medieval london, where the poets geoffrey chaucer and john gower spent much of.
Brothers paul and roy deacon of the deacon memorial funeral home are called upon to bury their close friend and classmate, and the experience will leave them forever changed. In 85 london, the race is on to recover a missing book. A burnable book is a richly textured read that like a savory pie needs to be enjoyed slowly. Outside the walls of london, agnes, a maudlyn, or prostitute, observes the murder, by a cloaked, italian. He is a guggenheim fellow and a recipient of research fellowships from the american council of learned societies and the national endowment for the humanities. Any book about books will have bookworms coming out of the woodwork, and this was a wonderful tale about a book and the people whose lives are directly impacted by it and its prophetic words. John gower a poet himself, but more importantly, a man with connections must find the book to save his friend, the poet geoffrey chaucer. The author of the acclaimed medieval mystery a burnable book once again brings fourteenthcentury london alive in all its color and detail in this riveting thriller featuring medieval poet and fixer john gowera twisty tale rife with intrigue, danger mystery, and murder. Before i was a third of the way into the book, i was flipping back to the first pages, eager to follow the trail holsinger was blazing. Burn book history todays concept of a burn book was popularized by the movie mean girls, in which a small group of high school students wrote terrible comments about others, and reported.
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