WENDOVER BOOKSHOP
35 High Street, Wendover, Bucks. HP22 6DU
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WENDOVER BOOKSHOP 35 High Street, Wendover, Bucks. HP22 6DU
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Black
Jack
Leon Garfield Oxford University Press, 2001 (first published in 1968) Paperback. 187pp. illustrations by Jason Cockcroft £4.99 to order
From the streets of London to a travelling circus, Bartholomew can't break free from the shadow that follows him. Then he meets Belle, the girl everyone says is mad. Could this be a chance for Bartholomew to be rid of Black Jack forever? Leon Garfield is a master-storyteller, and has a strong sense of historic language. He writes moral adventure stories with melodramatic plots and strong characters: his literary roots are most definitely Dickensian. He is an author we recommend very highly. |
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books by Joan Aiken (who has a similar grasp of narrative and character) such as The Cuckoo Tree, Black Hearts In Battersea and The Shadow Guests. Other books by Leon Garfield that we recommend include Devil-in-the-Fog, Smith, John Diamond, and Jack Holborn. |
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Bartholomew
Dorking finds himself inexplicably tied to the murdering villain, Black
Jack, who should have hung from the gallows - but who has now, it seems,
risen from the dead!