The Heresy of Dr Dee

Phil Rickman (Author)

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English

Corvus
01 December 2012

Historical fiction

Series: The John Dee Papers

The year of our Lord, 1560: Lord Robert Dudley and Dr John Dee tarry in a paltry town on the edge of a lawless land veined with superstition. Lord Robert, lover to Queen Elizabeth, stands accused of the vile murder of his wife and is banished. John Dee, Astrologer Royal, necromancer, thinks to court the pleasure of his young Queen by harboring Dudley in his father's house in the borderlands.

Nearby, in the assize town of Presteigne, a notorious Welshman awaits trial for his life. The English church requires a death. But the old religion dies hard at Albion's outer reaches and it is said the low magic of the cunning folk quickens to defend its own. When a body is discovered, mutilated, the townsfolk know to bar their doors to the darkness outside. But perhaps the darkness only wants the two outsiders.

By: Phil Rickman (Author)
Imprint: Corvus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 751g
ISBN: 9781848872769
ISBN 10: 1848872763
Series: The John Dee Papers
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 01 December 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Phil Rickman lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely popular author of The Bones of Avalon and the Merrily Watkins Mysteries.

Reviews for The Heresy of Dr Dee

Praise for The Bones of Avalon: 'Phil Rickman is one of my all-time favorites. He's done it again with his usual sense of permeating atmosphere, with vivid characters in a complex plot that grows through the bones of history like a deadly nightshade.' Diana Gabaldon 'Brilliantly imagined and grippingly executed' The Times 'This one is rather special... Rickman makes a wonderfully assured leap into the sixteenth century... compelling and historically convincing' Spectator