Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners . To take part, you simply choose a random book from your TBR and show it off. Don’t forget to check out her blog and link back to Lauren’s Page Turners, and add your own links!
Today I’m going to pick a historical novel on my to-read list. I don’t read a huge amount of historical fiction but when I do I tend to really enjoy them most of the time. This looks like an interesting read and I’ve heard good things about it!
Title: The Bedlam Stacks
Author: Natasha Pulley
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Publish date: 13 July 2017
[Synopsis]
An astonishing historical novel set in the shadowy, magical forests of South America, which draws on the captivating world of the international bestseller The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Deep in uncharted Peru, the holy town of Bedlam stands at the edge of a forest. The shrine statues move, and anyone who crosses the border dies. But somewhere inside are cinchona trees, whose bark yields quinine: the only known treatment for malaria.
On the other side of the Pacific, it is 1859 and India is ravaged by the disease. The hunt for a reliable source of quinine is critical and in its desperation, the India Office searches out its last qualified expeditionary. Struggling with a terrible injury from his last mission and the strange occurrences at his family’s ruined estate, Merrick Tremayne finds himself under orders to bring back cinchona cuttings at any cost and dispatched, against his own better judgement, to Bedlam.
There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettlingly familiar stories of impossible disappearances and living stone. Gradually, he realises that Raphael is the key to a legacy left by two generations of Tremayne explorers before him, one which will prove more dangerous and valuable than the India Office could ever have imagined.
Have you heard anything about this book, or have you got it on your TBR list?
I love this cover!! 🙂 hope you enjoy it 🙂
Thanks – yeah isn’t the design great! Hopefully the hook will live up to the amazing cover ????
I have this one on my TBR pile too. I loved her first book, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. Have you read that one? I admit I didn’t always understand it but it was clever and quirky and has a clockwork octopus!!
No I haven’t read it but heard lots about it, meant to be a really interesting book! Plus anything with a clockwork octopus in HAS to be pretty entertaining, surely? ????
That’s a very interesting cover!
It is a pretty cool cover isn’t it! I really liked it. Not that I’m judging it by it’s cover ????????
Particularly like monkeys!
Nooo, we never do that :p