To find the manuscript, wily bureaucrat Geoffrey Chaucer turns to fellow poet John Gower, a professional trader in information with connections high and low.
Only a few powerful men know that the cryptic lines derive from a “burnable book,” a seditious work that threatens the stability of the realm. Songs are heard across London-catchy verses said to originate from an ancient book that prophesies the end of England’s kings-and among the book’s predictions is Richard’s assassination. Surrounded by ruthless courtiers-including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt’s flamboyant mistress, Katherine Swynford-England’s young, still untested king, Richard II, is in mortal peril, and the danger is only beginning. A Burnable Book is an irresistible thriller, reminiscent of classics like An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Name of the Rose and The Crimson Petal and the White. OL17384233W Page_number_confidence 95.35 Pages 518 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200722141806 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 586 Scandate 20200708141716 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780007493326 Tts_version 4.In Chaucer’s London, betrayal, murder and intrigue swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England’s kings.
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