Justin Cartwright

Lion Heart

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Richard Cathar was named after his father's hero, Richard the Lionheart. Richard remembers his recently-deceased father, Alaric, as a delusional hippy, who saw himself as an intellectual and historian. Alaric believed that Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood had met and he found - and lost - a document which was to prove this. In his father's footsteps, Richard travels to Jerusalem where he falls deeply in love with an Arab Canadian journalist; a few weeks later she is kidnapped in Cairo. In the course of writing about the Crusades, Richard discovers that the True Cross, lost to Saladin in 1187, was recovered by a small band of Richard's kni… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-4088-3980-5
EAN: 9781408839805
Produktnummer: 14518808
Verlag: Bloomsbury
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.7 cm 525 g
Gewicht: 525

Über den Autor

Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, the acclaimed White Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven By Water and, most recently, Other People's Money, winner of the Spears novel of the year. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London.@justincartwrig1