Sunday Bookshelf
This feature is to get more shout-outs for books that are sitting of my bookshelf waiting to be read.
England may have survived the Armada threat of 1588, but when Spanish galleys land troops in Cornwall on a lightning raid seven years later, is it a dry-run for a new invasion? Or is there, perhaps, a more sinister motive? The Queen is speechless with rage. But as intelligencer John Shakespeare tries to get a grip on events, one by one his network of spies is horribly murdered. What has all this to do with Thomasyn Jade, a girl driven to the edge of madness by the foul rituals of exorcism? And what is the link to a group of priests held prisoner in bleak Wisbech Castle? From the pain-wracked torture rooms of the Inquisition in Seville to the marshy wastes of fenland, from the wild coasts of Cornwall to the sweat and sawdust of the Elizabethan playhouses, and from the condemned cell at Newgate to the devilish fantasies of a fanatic, THE HERETICS builds to a terrifying climax that threatens the life of the Queen herself.
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MASSIVELY up my street!
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The Sunday Bookshelf – The Heretics by Rory Clements.
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Sounds wonderful. And being an Irish-American who seems to get her looks from the Spaniards, and who briefly lived in Spain, this is right up my alley.
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I’d not heard of the John Shakespeare series before. I love the cover of this one.
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Thanks ladies, I was rather surprised to find this sitting on my bookshelf, I don’t remember where it came from.
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I feel the tension build even in this review. Wow. Talk about attention grabbing. 🙂
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Thanks Tess.
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You are welcome, Rosie.
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Sounds amazing, if the book is as good as Rosie’s review, wow!
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