Prisoner of the Inquisition
  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409096979
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Prisoner of the Inquisition

Formats & editions
EBook
1 May 2010
Paperback
1 Sep 2011
Buy from…
Amazon Apple Books Google Play Kobo eBooks.com

A gripping, dramatic adventure set during the Spanish Inquisition - a time of fire and fury when people turned traitor to save themselves.

Zarita, only daughter of the town magistrate, lives a life of wealth and privilege. Indulged by her parents, she is free to spend her days as she pleases, enjoying herself in the company of an eligible young nobleman, horse riding, or leisurely studying the arts.

Saulo, son of a family reduced by circumstances to begging, witnesses his father wrongfully arrested and dealt with in the most horrifying way. Hauled off to be a slave at sea and pursued by pirates he encounters the ambitious mariner explorer, Christopher Columbus. Throughout his hardships Saulo is determined to survive - for he has sworn vengeance on the magistrate and his family.

As Zarita's life also undergoes harsh changes the formidable and frightening Inquisition arrives in the area, bringing menacing shadows of suspicion with acts of cruel brutality - and ultimately, amid the intrigues of the court of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand in the splendid Moorish city of Grenada, betrayal and revenge . . .
  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409096979
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:
Share…

About the author

Theresa Breslin

Theresa Breslin is the Carnegie Medal winning author of over forty books for children & young adults whose work has appeared on stage, radio and TV. Her books are hugely popular with young people, librarians and teachers. Remembrance, her top selling YA novel of youth in WW1, has now been reissued to include Book Notes. The Dream Master was shortlisted for the Children's Book Award. Divided City was shortlisted for ten book awards, winning two outright.

Also by Theresa Breslin

The Rasputin Dagger
Caged
Ghost Soldier
The Secret Lives of Numbers
Spy for the Queen of Scots
Kezzie at War
Dream Master: Arabian Nights
See all

Praise for Prisoner of the Inquisition

Breslin's ability to weave a well-researched, page-turning plot around sympathetic, believable characters has been displayed before in The Medici Seal and The Nostradamus Prophecy . . . It's unputdownable

Amanda Craig, The Times

It's a fantastic, mesmerising and enjoyable book . . . This is a brilliant tale of revenge, betrayal and courage. From the start I was gripped

Shannon Waters, Sugarscape

From the past to the future via a highly unstable present . . . Prisoner of the Inquisition has Christopher Columbus in a walk-on part, but the main story is of the families caught up in the Spanish Inquisition

Jasmine Fassell, Scotland on Sunday
penguin pop image
penguin pop image