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The Nightingale Papers

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

A harmless joke thrown in after one glass of wine too many triggers a series of revengeful plots, grotesque confrontations and literary hoaxes.
World experts on Madoc, one of the greatest eighteenth-century poets, are gathering for a celebratory conference in Mid-Wales, in a solitary building run by a religious sect advocating chastity and purity of mind.

It’s a world populated by shady, repressed and unscrupulous academics, whose only means of salvation appears to be through the discovery of an unknown page from the life and works of a dead writer; but when a whole new canto from Madoc’s masterpiece appears out of the blue and is presented at the conference – the heat is on. The result can only be further literary disaster.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR David
Nokes

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United Kingdom
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd.

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