COMING SOON! Everything is now with the printers, and they are promising delivery in good time for the launch on 9th April 2012....
Volume 8 of the Angel Mountain Saga
In the year 1810, following Martha’s return from voluntary exile on the Isle of Skomar, a black man is shipwrecked on the shore of the island. He dies from his injuries, but two strange and powerful objects find their way into Martha’s hands. Shortly afterwards, she meets a freed black slave, and she agrees to become involved in a secretive anti-slavery movement. At first all goes well, but then things run out of control as she desperately tries to stop a brutal campaign aimed, ironically, at her own enemies. Inexorably she is drawn into a shadowy world inhabited by politicians, gentry and assassins -- and it emerges that the security of the state itself is at risk. This is a tightly constructed tale with many unexpected twists and turns. The key characters will be familiar to followers of the Angel Mountain Saga, but marching through the pages of the story are others who are considerably larger than life -- including the famous dandy Beau Brummell, the portly Princess of Ebersdorf, a black villain called John Wesley Jumbie, and General Sir Thomas Picton, who has been cursed, and whose days are numbered.
Brian John is the master of suspense, though it is not all blood and gall. His descriptive prowess is eloquent........ His characters as usual are full of colour and verve; they leap off the page. One can understand why the Angel Mountain Saga has become something of a cult. Pick up any of the series and I guarantee you will want to read them all. Gwales (Welsh Books Council)
Details: Conspiracy of Angels (Part Eight of the Angel Mountain Saga), by Brian John, Greencroft Books, 2012, ISBN 9780905559933. A5 paperback, 352 pp, £7.99.
Book launch party: 5 - 7 pm, Easter Monday, 9th April, in the Commodore’s Lounge, Boat Club, Parrog, Newport. Readings by Lis Evans; signings by the author. Please come and join us for the occasion!
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