![]() ![]() Gower discovers that the book and incriminating evidence about its author have fallen into the unwitting hands of innocents, who will be drawn into a labyrinthine conspiracy that reaches from the king’s court to London’s slums and stews-and potentially implicates his own son. To find the manuscript, wily bureaucrat Geoffrey Chaucer turns to fellow poet John Gower, a professional trader in information with connections high and low. Only a few powerful men know that the cryptic lines derive from a “burnable book,” a seditious work that threatens the stability of the realm. Songs are heard across London-catchy verses said to originate from an ancient book that prophesies the end of England’s kings-and among the book’s predictions is Richard’s assassination. Surrounded by ruthless courtiers-including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt’s flamboyant mistress, Katherine Swynford-England’s young, still untested king, Richard II, is in mortal peril, and the danger is only beginning. ![]() A Burnable Book is an irresistible thriller, reminiscent of classics like An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Name of the Rose and The Crimson Petal and the White. ![]() In Chaucer’s London, betrayal, murder and intrigue swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England’s kings. ![]()
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