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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Book of Colours
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'London, 1321: In a small shop in Paternoster Row, three people are drawn together around the creation of a magnificent book, an illuminated manuscript of prayers, a book of hours. Even though the commission seems to answer the aspirations of each one of them, their own desires and ambitions threaten its completion. As each struggles to see the book come into being, it will change everything they have understood about their place in the world. In many ways, this is a story about power - it is also a novel about the place of women in the roiling and turbulent world of the early fourteenth century; what power they have, how they wield it, and just how temporary and conditional it is.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2018 .
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      Extent: 368p.p.
      Reprinted: 15 Apr 2019 , (paperback)
      Note/s:
      • Published 23 April 2018.

      ISBN: 9781460752210, 146075221X, 9781460757970 (pbk), 1460757971 (pbk)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Fourth Estate ,
      2019 .
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      Extent: 400p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 5 November 2019.
      ISBN: 9781460757970, 1460757971

Other Formats

  • Also dyslexic edition
  • Also large print.
  • Also braille.
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