Louise Welsh

Tamburlaine Must Die

Buch

A taut, seedy novella scraped off the undercarriage of Elizabethan England. ArenaIt is 1593 and London is a city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, strangers are unwelcome and severed heads grin from spikes on Tower Bridge. Tamburlaine Must Die is the story of the last days of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, a man who dares to defy both God and state - and discovers that there are worse fates than damnation . . .Elizabethan England has never seemed so beguilingly immediate ... Every vignette, every minor character, every sight, sound and smell, has the ring of truth. Sunday TelegraphPungently atmospheric. ObserverTamburlaine Must… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84195-604-6
EAN: 9781841956046
Produktnummer: 16436225
Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.1 cm 118 g
Auflage: Main
Gewicht: 118
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Louise Welsh is the bestselling author of The Cutting Room and Tamburlaine Must Die. She was chosen as one of Britain's Best First Novelists of 2002 by the Guardian, won The Crime Writers' Association Creasey Dagger for the best first crime novel, and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award, 2002. Her new novel, The Bullet Trick is published in paperback Feb 2007.