The Book of Kells
by:
R.A. MacAvoy (author)
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553252606 (0553252607)
ASIN: 0553252607
Publish date: 1985-07-01
Publisher: Spectra
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Irish Literature,
Ireland,
Time Travel,
Fiction,
Historical
A lot of interesting elelments, but a somewhat weak plot meant that it never really coalesced into a coherent whole for me.
If you're looking for a read you can easily breeze through, this is not it. There will be struggles to wrestle meaning and memory into the Gaelic language without referring to the glossary at the back of the book. There will be lavish nudity, of both thenubile young and graphically old, and the occa...
Love this book. John Thornburn, a rather vague and migrane prone Newfoundland artist, has been picked up and whisked to Dublin by his autocratic girlfriend, Dr Derval O'Keane Phd, professor of Irish studies at Trinity College. The only things John likes about Ireland are Derval, who pushes him aro...
What happens when a doofus professor gets sucked back in time to the moment when The Book of Kells is first written?He gets a migraine, that's what.Then he winds up fighting Vikings, rescuing damsels in distress, helping sailors wormproof their vessels, and he even gets involved in a lawsuit.Richly ...
Found it,along with some others I'd completely forgotten about, lurking on one of the shelves in the bedroom.You have to take it as read that some 'shelves' are actually floor spaces lolHah! As it turns out I have read this, and I can remember exactly where I read it, which was by a pool in Porec (p...
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