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      The Clerkenwell Tales

      by Peter Ackroyd
      Published
      Jun 2004
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      Suspense Suspense
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      224
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      From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London's history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales to recreate the city's 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard II and the demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as madness, until she accurately foretells a series of terrorist explosions. What is the role of the apocalyptic Predestined Men? And the clandestine Dominus? And what powers, ultimately, will prevail?In Peter Ackroyd's deft and suprising narrative, The Miller, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath and other characters from Canterbury Tales pursue these mysteries through a pungently vivid medieval London.

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      Historical

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      First Edition Jun 2004 Vintage ISBN13 9780749386306 ISBN10 0749386304
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      Nov 2005 Anchor ISBN13 9781400075959 ISBN10 1400075955
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      Oct 2003 Chatto & Windus ISBN13 9781856197069 ISBN10 1856197069
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      Sep 2004 Nan A. Talese ISBN13 9780385511216 ISBN10 0385511213
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      Nov 2005 Knopf ISBN13 9780307276926 ISBN10 0307276929
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      Nov 2005 Knopf Group E-Books ISBN10 B000FCKHYM
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