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High John the Conqueror
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- Book Synopsis
- "I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a policeman instead." WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates of a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to posses magical powers which only grow once every fifty years are found in the woods. A supernatural creature believed to be the guardian of the herbs is seen in nightmares. Rumours of orgiastic rituals on the estates of the rich and powerful excite the curious. And the Queen of England decides to celebrate her 90th birthday with a visit to the city's famous cathedral spire. Into this madness, two ambitious detectives, one with doomed literary ambitions, seek to solve the mystery, their only lead that "posh people are taking our children". Blending mysticism, class war, societal malfeasance and transcendence, High John The Conqueror identifies the point in our recent history when the ghosts of our past become the political monsters of the present.
- About The Author
- Tariq Goddard was born in London in 1975. He read Philosophy at King's College London. His first three novels were short listed for various awards including Whitbread (Costa) First Novel Award, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. His fourth and fifth books won the Independent Publishers Gold medal for Horror Writing and Silver medal for Literary Fiction respectively.He lives on a farm in Wiltshire with his wife and children.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781914420306
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Repeater, (08 November 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 328
- Weight
- 462 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 30 mm
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