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The Clerkenwell Tales

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for the throne of England, the reader's attention is focused on Dominus, a secret society of religious
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The novel is set in London in the year 1399, a year of revolt, revolution and religious conspiracy. As
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nun to foment panic and hysteria to bring forth the dethroning of Richard II. The result is a
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which effortlessly merges fact and fiction into an almost recognizable alternate history.
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of a religious sect, led by the mad nun and making use of the prophecies of the mad
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The novel is set in the late 1390s. It focuses on the
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Peter Ackroyd
Chatto & Windus
Hardback
Paperback
ISBN
1856197069
Peter Ackroyd
Lollardy
conspiracy
Richard II of England
Henry Bolingbroke
Richard II
fundamentalists
Lollards
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
conspiracies
Clerkenwell
gothic novel
"Explore the British Library"
"Observer review: The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd"
"'The Clerkenwell Tales': A Mad Nun's Tale"
Stub icon
mystery novel
stub
expanding it
See guidelines for writing about novels
talk page
v

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