BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • An Instance of the Fingerpost

    (By Iain Pears)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 28 MB (28,087 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 682 times
    Last checked 15 Hour ago!
    Author Iain Pears
    “Book Descriptions: An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page.

    We are in England in the 1660s. Charles II has been restored to the throne following years of civil war and Cromwell's short-lived republic. Oxford is the intellectual seat of the country, a place of great scientific, religious, and political ferment. A fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear the story of the death from four witnesses: an Italian physician intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; the son of an alleged Royalist traitor; a master cryptographer who has worked for both Cromwell and the king; and a renowned Oxford antiquarian. Each tells his own version of what happened. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth.

    With rights sold for record-breaking sums around the world, An Instance of the Fingerpost is destined to become a major international publishing event. Deserving of comparison to the works of John Fowles and Umberto Eco, Iain Pears's novel is an ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Isabella Warrior Queen

    ★★★★★

    Michael G. Kramer

    Book 1

    The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

    ★★★★★

    Anna Keay

    Book 1

    The Quincunx

    ★★★★★

    Charles Palliser

    Book 1

    Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

    ★★★★★

    K. Ritz

    Book 1

    Cahokia Jazz

    ★★★★★

    Francis Spufford

    Book 1

    Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles

    ★★★★★

    Dominic Sandbrook

    Book 1

    Darkmans (Thames Gateway, #3)

    ★★★★★

    Nicola Barker

    Book 1

    Lionheart (Plantagenets #4; Richard the Lionheart #1)

    ★★★★★

    Sharon Kay Penman

    Book 1

    An Officer and a Spy

    ★★★★★

    Robert Harris

    Book 1

    Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

    ★★★★★

    Kate Atkinson