Bowling, Nicholas – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:35:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Bowling, Nicholas – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The undying of Obedience Wellrest https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-undying-of-obedience-wellrest/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-undying-of-obedience-wellrest/ Ned works as a gravekeeper with his grandfather. Ned's odd life is disrupted when graves are disturbed and an attractive young woman, Obedience Wellrest, starts visiting the cemetery. A mystery of science and magic unravels - and no-one is quite as they seem ...]]>  

A mesmering Gothic mystery from Costa Award-shortlisted author Nicholas Bowling.  

‘Nicholas Bowling is a thrilling writer’ THE TELEGRAPH

To the horror of  young gravedigger, Ned, body-snatchers have been visiting his churchyard in the dead of night.  Until now, he’d been daydreaming about another visitor -  daughter of the manor,  Obedience  Wellrest.

But 16-year-old Obedience has troubles  of  her own: her loving but overbearing father, and  his wish to see her married to  a rich man of science,  Phineas Mordaunt.  

But when Mordaunt starts to poke his nose into her family history – in particular, the ruinous research of late Uncle Herbert – Obedience enters into a dangerous game of Death, and Ned might be the only person who can save her ?

  • A mesmerising tale of magic, death and science, wrapped up in a delicious Gothic mystery
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell meets Dangerous Remedy – for young adult readers
  • From highly acclaimed Costa Award-shortlisted author, Nicholas Bowling  
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From Costa Award-shortlisted author Nicholas Bowling comes a tale of adventure, myth and music to make your heart sing …

‘Cast its spell over me from the first page … it really is my perfect book.’ Jasbinder Bilan, author of ASHA & THE SPIRIT BIRD

‘Nicholas Bowling is a thrilling writer.’ THE TELEGRAPH

Oran lives on Little Drum, where music is everything. Every islander has a birth instrument and a life song – and the ancestors, called ghasts, linger to hear the music.

But when the Duchess arrives from the mainland bringing orders of silence, she threatens the ghasts’ existence, the very soul of the community.

When Oran hears of a mythical instrument with the power to manipulate hearts, she brings her ghast best friend, Alick, on a quest to find it, play it, and change the Duchess’s mind …

  • From the author of the Costa Children’s Book Award-shortlisted In the Shadow of the Heroes comes a thrilling Celtic-inspired fantasy adventure.

  • The adventure and magic of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust with a Hebridean-inspired fantasy setting and lovable characters reminiscent of Pixar’s Brave.

  • A story about how music has the power to reveal, to inspire, and to bind people together.

 

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