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Hide Me Among the Graves

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Hide Me Among the Graves
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tim Powers
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:528
Dimensions(mm): Height 233,Width 156
Category/GenreHistorical fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781848874084
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General
Edition Export/Airside

Publishing Details

Publisher Atlantic Books
Imprint Corvus
Publication Date 1 September 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

London, 1862. A city of over three million souls, of stinking fog and dark, winding streets. Through these streets walks the poet Christina Rossetti, haunted and tormented by the ghost of her uncle, John Polidori. Without him, she cannot write, but her relationship with him threatens to shake London itself to the ground. This fascinating, clever novel vividly recreates the stews and slums of Victorian London -a city of dreadful delight. But it is the history of a hidden city, where nursery rhymes lead the adventurer through haunted tunnels and inverted spires. And where the price of poetic inspiration is blood.

Author Biography

Tim Powers is the author of several acclaimed works of speculative fiction. His books have won both the World Fantasy and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Awards, twice. He has received the Locus Award three times. He lives in San Bernardino, California.

Reviews

Superbly written, wonderfully imagined. * The Times * Tim Powers is a highly talented, much-lauded writer who does a terrific job of grounding the darkest and wildest of vampiric fantasies in carefully researched historical and literary reality. Intelligent, gripping and terrifying to boot. * Daily Mail * Powers conjures a rich mythology based on vampire lore [blending] literature, history and the supernatural. Powers is one of the best fantasy authors, here at the very top of his game. * Financial Times * Powers' sense of time and place is impeccable, and his characters - real and imaginary - leap off the page as the story gallops towards a thrilling finale. A long time coming, Hide Me Among the Graves has been worth the wait. * Guardian * Powers's speciality is secret supernatural histories of the world that offer far more plausible explanations for everything than, say, Dan Brown, and are conceptually far wittier. He is an intelligent, emotionally complex writer with a taste for elegantly conceived nightmare. * Independent * Dickens as directed by David Lynch... both clever and fun. * SFX Magazine *