Palace of Shadows - October 2023 PREM1ER EditionAn outstanding historical novel for fans of The Essex Serpent and Piranesi, Ray Celestin's Palace of Shadows can lay claim to having at its centre the most Gothic House of them all . . . Im not asking you to build something impossible. Im asking you to build something that contains all the strangeness and confusion that you can muster. Samuel Etherstone, a penniless artist, is adrift in London. His disturbing art is shunned by patrons and critics

Thought Police

His mason anxiously advises against it

the heart of the scene

she receives word of Freddie's death in action along with his uniform -but something doesn't quite make sense

and a modern-day Jesse James who loves a good armed robbery

Not only must he say everything twice just to be heard over his four brothers and sisters

along with papers showing regular money transfers to an American account

Actually sacked

the local police inspector

Incendiary forces us to see what we'd rather not see

Sam Vimes is out of time and already out of breath

Its humblest inhabitants are building