Bartholomew Fair (The Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez Book 4)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00QQGF7I2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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In 1995 she founded Dundee Book Events, a voluntary organisation promoting books and authors to the general public. annswinfen . The Testament of Mariam marks something of a departure. Currently she is working on a late sixteenth century series, featuring a young Marrano physician who is recruited as a code-breaker and spy in Walsingham’s secret service. Her first three novels, The Anniversary, The Travellers, and A Running Tide, all with a contemporary setting but also an historical resonance, were published by Random House, with translations into Dutch and German. She now lives in Broughty Ferry, on the northeast coast of Scotland, with her husband, formerly vice-principal of the University of Dundee, a cocker spaniel, and a rescue kitten. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Classics and Mathematics and m
good reading. loved that the young lady had so roelle seamount good reading. loved that the young lady had so many experiences just because she was considered a young man. "What could possibly go wrong?" according to pjburn. Well, at least a half-dozen events and circumstances provide all the conflict and opportunities that young physician and spy Christoval Alvarez needs to entertain us yet once more. Swinfen’s skills in characterization and narrative pace are evident and as pleasing as ever. We learn some of young Kit’s back-story before the family fled the Inquisition that drove them out of their native Portugal and on to England when Kit w. Elizabethan, and very solid book. K. Salmon Ann Swinfen has done very well so far with Cristoval Alvarez and the late Elizabethan England. And she is growing as a writer. All the good ones keep getting better and better. This book is better, more internally consistent and a strong look at Cristoval. She's well worth the buying of the early prince.I won't say much about the book. There is adventure (The previous ones featured mathematics, code breaking, pursuivants, dangerous ov
The Testament of Mariam marks something of a departure. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Classics and Mathematics and married a fellow undergraduate, the historian David Swinfen. Her first three novels, The Anniversary, The Travellers, and A Running Tide, all with a contemporary setting but also an historical resonance, were published by Random House, with translations into Dutch and German. She now lives in Broughty Ferry, on the northeast coast
Yet other trouble is brewing. Young physician and code-breaker Christoval Alvarez stumbles upon a sinister troupe of Italian puppeteers bent on making mischief, but it soon becomes apparent that more than mischief is in the air. Sir Francis Walsingham’s agents are baffled by the ill-assorted conspirators, including one of their own men. Time is running out, and a missing cache of gunpowder cannot be found .. When Bartholomew Fair, London’s largest public festival, is threatened in 1589 by five hundred armed soldiers dismissed from service without pay, the authorities act swiftly and decisively to prevent trouble