All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is.
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 artefacts - coins,fragments of glass,human bones - which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death
Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days,everything he believes - about himself,his faith and the history of his world - will be tested to destruction.
Publisher: CornerstoneISBN: 9781787460966Number of pages: 432Weight: 300 gDimensions: 194 x 130 x 36 mm
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'This is a novel that not only makes you smile at the author's brilliance,but induces a shiver of dread at how real it all seems'- The Financial Times
'His portrait of a future Britain that has more in common with the distant past than the present is rendered with immense skill and a subtle ironic humour.'- The Sunday Express
'Genuinely thrilling,wonderfully conceived and entirely without preaching,it probes the nature of history.'- The Daily Telegraph
'A thoroughly absorbing,page-turning narrative in which the author pulls us ever deeper into the imaginative world he has created...it poses challenging questions about the meaning of the past,the idea of progress and the stability of civilisation. A fine addition to Harris's diverse body of work.'- The Sunday Times
Robert Harris
A heavyweight of historical fiction with a knack for creating page-turning political thrillers with literary credence,Robert Harris is best known for the'what if'masterpiece Fatherland and his Cicero series as well as the controversial Blairite-era roman à clef,The Ghost.
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