Ariadne's Children

Beaton, Roderick

ISBN 10: 1857994019 / ISBN 13: 9781857994018

Published by Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 1996

About this Item

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ariadne's Children
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Limited
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857994019
• ISBN 13: 9781857994018
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: New Ed.
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.805 pounds

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Synopsis

Across the decades and two world wars, from England to the Aegean unfolds a legacy of failed expectation, deceit and violent death, the resolution of which lies in the terrible decoding of a bloodline.

It started with a bang. The bullet which killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 not only triggered the Great War, but grazed the temple of Lionel Robertson - patriarch, collector and old rogue - and ignites the gunpowder trail of this extraordinary novel.

Robertson's flight from the Balkans leads him to Crete and a lifelong obsession with the excavation there of Ariadne's Summer Palace. But for subsequent generations of the Robertson family, a dark shadow emanates from the ancient site, a series of mysteries which will engulf Lionel's son and even his grandson.

About the Author

Roderick Beaton was born and brought up in Edinburgh, and went on to study English Literature at Cambridge. After graduating he spent three years travelling and studying in Greece before returning to the UK to pursue an academic career. Roderick Beaton has written several books on modern and medieval Greek literature. He is married with two sons and lives in London. Ariadne's Children is his first novel.