Ghostwalk

Author: Rebecca Stott

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  • : $25.00 AUD
  • : 9780297852056
  • : Orion Publishing Co
  • : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • : March 2007
  • : 32.99
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  • : Rebecca Stott
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Barcode 9780297852056
9780297852056

Description

Set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century, this is at once a ghost story, a love story and a beautifully told history of 17th century Cambridge - as well as a four-hundred year-old murder mystery in which Isaac Newton is a suspect.

Awards

Shortlisted for Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2008.

Author description

Rebecca Stott is a writer and broadcaster. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, teaches in an English literature department and is affiliated to the Cambridge history of science department. Her work, in radio writing, fiction and non-fiction, weaves together history, literature and the history of science. She is the author the non-fiction book 'Darwin and the Barnacle'.