The Ashes of London
by:
Andrew Taylor (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780008207755 (0008207755)
Publish date: 2017-03-28
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
by Andrew Taylor The Ashes of London is set against the Great London Fire of 1666. There are two stories intertwined. A first person narrative from James Marwood, son of a disgraced printer, who is tasked to track down the killer of a mummified corpse found in St Paul's after it has burned down, a...
This, ladies and gentlemen, is an official DNF. I don't make those very often; mostly I let a book marinate in my "currently reading" pile, because I might get back to it. I save DNF for a book that I know I will never "get back to." Ashes of London is one of those. And I'm disappointed, becau...
Andrew Taylor has made a career out of historical thrillers and his latest book is a compelling dive into post-republic Britain. Many of us perhaps recall 1666 as the year of the 'great fire of London', a catastrophic event in the history of the nation, often taught in classrooms alongside the impac...