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  • Published: 12 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241952610
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1152
  • RRP: $49.99

The Cornish Trilogy

What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus



Reissue of this classic trilogy comprising The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone and The Lyre of Orpheus

The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. But in the realization of their duties, they find themselves drawn into Cornish's bizarre, secretive and mystical world. In this spellbinding trilogy a host of memorable characters - defrocked, mischief-making monks, half-mad professors, gypsies and musical geniuses - become entangled in a story that involves theft, perjury, scholarship, murder, love, and the squandering of plenty of cash.

  • Published: 12 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241952610
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1152
  • RRP: $49.99

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Praise for The Cornish Trilogy

Deliciously readable

New York Times

One of the most remarkable achievements of contemporary fiction

Sunday Times

Nourishes the brain while it beguiles the senses

Time

A first-rate storyteller and a real moralist with a crackling sense of humour

Newsweek

Davies combines elements of the fantastic with details of everyday life to show us a world in which the miraculous coexists with the mundane

New York Times