A Byzantine Trilogy, in four parts
These novels form a trilogy which spans several centuries of Byzantine history. Theodore is set in the seventh century, a period when the world was sinking into the Dark Ages, and what was left of the Roman Empire was taking new, distinct form. Memoirs of a Byzantine Eunuch is set in the ninth century, when the empire was at its greatest, and most cruel. False Ambassador is the adventures of Thomas Deerham, in France and England during the Hundred Years' War, and the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Mappamundi, the fourth part of the trilogy, is the further adventures of Thomas Deerham.
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Brute Art
A novel about art, natural history, food and reptiles.
What happened to Landy? Was he murdered? Or did he eat something that disagreed with
him? Was he actually dead? Landy was not popular, but who might have harmed him?
James Hopewell, Landy’s collaborator, had his suspicions. Was it animal rights protesters,
university rivals, militant Darwinians, or a reptile-
An abandoned gîte seems a good place to hide. James tries to forget Landy’s unhealthy obsession with reptiles, and rediscovers art. But his solitude does not last long. Soon James is beset by women, who ask questions, make demands, feed him on exotic delicacies, tempt him with forbidden pleasures.
While eating his way through the animal kingdom, James has doubts. Is everything as it seems? There is the mystery of Landy’s toxic fish, and the case of the tuatara that did not croak. Many of the things Landy told James seem not to be true. James is afraid. Do Landy’s enemies know where he is? And what will happen if they come after him?
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