The Alchemy of Fire

Gillian Bradshaw (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2004 | World ed.
Severn House Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7278-6097-2 (ISBN)

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Constantinople, 672 AD. Ex-concubine Anna makes a living manufacturing perfume, while raising Theodosia, her daughter by a prince. But an Arab invasion threatens and Kallinikos, an alchemist, comes into their lives exposing their secret and forcing Anna to re- think her life...

Constantinople, 672 AD. Ex-concubine Anna makes a living manufacturing perfume and attempts to raise her daughter well, while trying to keep it secret that Theodosia is really a prince's daughter. But as an Arab invasion threatens and Kallinikos - an alchemist working on a secret weapon to use in the siege - comes into their lives, her daughter's secret is forced into the open and Anna must accept a huge upheaval in her life, recognize her feelings for the attentive Kallinikos and rethink her determined independence...

Born in the USA, Gillian Bradshaw grew up in Washington, Santiago, Chile and Michigan. She is a Classics graduate from Newnham College, Cambridge, and published her first novel, Hawk of May, just before her final term. A highly acclaimed historical novelist, Gillian Bradshaw has won the Hopwood Award for Fiction, among other prizes. She lives in Cambridge, England, with her husband and their four children.

Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 222 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-7278-6097-6 / 0727860976
ISBN-13	978-0-7278-6097-2 / 9780727860972
Zustand	Neuware