1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones – which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death?

Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes – about himself, his faith and the history of his world – will be tested to destruction!

Join Chorleywood Bookshop and bestselling author Robert Harris for an evening celebrating the master storyteller, Robert will be discussing his new book and his beloved classics alike. Robert Harris is the author of the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator – Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Conclave, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy. You’ve read his books now meet the man himself – this an event not to be missed!

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