The Somnambulist
by Jonathan Barnes | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780575082144 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780575082144 Global Overview for this book
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Purchased from The Book Depository to be shipped directly to kislany in Cyprus. She won my copy of this book (an ARC manuscript of the US version) in the Mind-Boggling Mystery Swap at BookObsessed, but seeing as how that version was rather heavy (2 lbs.), it would've cost just as much to mail it to her as to send this new copy of the UK version, already available in paperback as of the beginning of this year. So that's what I did. :)
This BCID was registered and emailed to Kislany after I ordered the book for her, so that she could label it accordingly.
This BCID was registered and emailed to Kislany after I ordered the book for her, so that she could label it accordingly.
Book Description
A fabulous first novel about a stage magician trying to stop a sorcerous uprising in turn-of-the-century London, in the vein of bestselling works by Susanna Clarke and Neil Gaiman.
The Somnambulist follows the extraordinary tale of Edward Moon, stage magician and detective, and his silent sidekick the Somnambulist. A bizarre series of murders unsettles turn-of-the-century London, but as Moon begins to investigate, he realizes it is only the beginning: nourished by blood and poetry, an eerie uprising grows among the very roots of the city.
With a gallery of vividly grotesque characters, a richly evoked setting and a highly literary and playful style, this is an amazingly addictive, brilliant debut novel from an author with a great voice and huge potential.
See my review in this BC journal entry or this review in my blog.
A fabulous first novel about a stage magician trying to stop a sorcerous uprising in turn-of-the-century London, in the vein of bestselling works by Susanna Clarke and Neil Gaiman.
The Somnambulist follows the extraordinary tale of Edward Moon, stage magician and detective, and his silent sidekick the Somnambulist. A bizarre series of murders unsettles turn-of-the-century London, but as Moon begins to investigate, he realizes it is only the beginning: nourished by blood and poetry, an eerie uprising grows among the very roots of the city.
With a gallery of vividly grotesque characters, a richly evoked setting and a highly literary and playful style, this is an amazingly addictive, brilliant debut novel from an author with a great voice and huge potential.
See my review in this BC journal entry or this review in my blog.