Palace of Shadows [electronic resource]
Ray Celestin2024
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An outstanding historical novel for fans of The Essex Serpent and Piranesi, Ray
Celestin's Palace of Shadows can lay claim to having at its centre the most
Gothic House of them all . . .
“I’m not asking you to build something impossible. I’m asking you to build
something that contains all the strangeness and confusion that you can muster.”
Samuel Etherstone, a penniless artist, is adrift in London. His disturbing art
is shunned by patrons and critics alike, his friend Oscar Wilde is now an exile
living in Paris, and a personal tragedy has taken its toll. So when he is
contacted by a mysterious heiress, Mrs Chesterfield, and asked to work on a
commission for the house she is building on the desolate Smugglers' Coast of
North Yorkshire, he accepts the offer.
Staying overnight in the local village pub, Samuel is warned not to spend too
much time there. He is told of the fate of the house's original architect,
Francisco Varano, chilling tales of folk driven mad by the ho...
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Palace of Shadows [electronic resource] / Ray Celestin
Author:
Ray Celestin, Author
Imprint:
Sydney Australia : Mantle, 2024
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781761560361
Language:
English
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BRN:
452931
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