The Bookman's Tale [electronic resource]
Lovett, Charlie2013
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A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller's search for his lost love. Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books and literature—in particular the golden age of Shakespeare, Jonson and Marlowe—The Bookman's Tale is a sparkling novel and an engrossing exploration of one of literature's most tantalizing mysteries. After the death of his wife, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from the States to the English countryside, where he hopes to rediscover the joys of life through his passion for collecting and restoring rare books. But when he opens an eighteenth-century study on Shakespeare forgeries, he is shocked to find a Victorian portrait strikingly similar to his wife tumble out of its pages, and becomes obsessed with tracking down its origins. As he follows the trail back to the nineteenth century and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter learns the truth about his own past and unearths a book that might prove that Shakespeare was indeed the author of all his plays.
Main title:
The Bookman's Tale [electronic resource] / Charlie Lovett
Author:
Lovett, Charlie, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Alma Books, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Charlie Lovett is a writer, teacher, and playwright, whose plays for children have been seen in more than three thousand productions. He is a former antiquarian bookseller and an avid book collector. He and his wife split their time between Carolina, and Kingham, Oxfordshire, in England.
ISBN:
9781846883057
Language:
English
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BRN:
2766339
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