THE BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS **SIGNED**DATED**

F. E. Higgins

ISBN 10: 1405089792 / ISBN 13: 9781405089791

Published by MacMillan, London, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS **SIGNED**DATED**
• Publisher: MacMillan, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405089792
• ISBN 13: 9781405089791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK edition/First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed and Dated By Author

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Synopsis

'Wonderful. Anyone looking for the next big thing has come to the right place. Higgins has created a uniquely grim fantasy world that more than holds its own with Dickens or Peake. Her characters are brilliantly realised and the story grabs at the reader with hooked talons' Eoin Colfer.

When Ludlow Fitch’s parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village, where he crosses paths with the tall and limping figure of Joe Zabbidou - a pawnbroker with a difference. For Joe trades secrets, not goods, for cash.

Employed as Joe’s assistant, Ludlow records the villagers’ fiendish confessions in an ancient leather-bound volume: The Black Book of Secrets. There's the gravedigger who has been resurrecting bodies; the butcher who made a mouse-meat pie for his bullying father, with fatal consequences; the wizened bookseller who went to murderous lengths to get her hands on a priceless tome.

Ludlow longs to trust his mysterious master, but he senses Joe has much to hide. But then Ludlow Fitch has his own, very dark, secrets . . .

About the Author

F. E. Higgins was born in England but raised in Ireland. She lives and writes in a house that dates back to the fifteenth century, in a small village in rural Kent. THE BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS was her debut novel.