Palace of Shadows: A SUPERB EXCLUSIVE UK EDITION- SIGNED, LIMITED & NUMBERED. 1ST EDITION/1ST PRINT

Ray Celestin

ISBN 10: 1035019078 / ISBN 13: 9781035019076

Published by Mantle, 2023

About this Item

An excellent UK first edition/ first print hardback without a dust-wrapper as issued by the publisher. The book has been signed by the author.It has blue sprayed edges. One of 1500 exclusive numbered copies of which this is 1290/1500 The book is unread and in very fine/very fine condition. Further photos available on request. Please note all my books are securely wrapped and shipped with care in protective packaging within 2 working days.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Palace of Shadows: A SUPERB EXCLUSIVE UK EDITION- SIGNED, LIMITED & NUMBERED. 1ST EDITION/1ST PRINT
• Publisher: Mantle
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035019078
• ISBN 13: 9781035019076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

An outstanding historical novel for fans of The Essex Serpent and Piranesi, Ray Celestin's Palace of Shadows can lay claim to having at its centre the most Gothic House of them all . . .

“I’m not asking you to build something impossible. I’m asking you to build something that contains all the strangeness and confusion that you can muster.”

Samuel Etherstone, a penniless artist, is adrift in London. His disturbing art is shunned by patrons and critics alike, his friend Oscar Wilde is now an exile living in Paris, and a personal tragedy has taken its toll. So when he is contacted by a mysterious heiress, Mrs Chesterfield, and asked to work on a commission for the house she is building on the desolate Smugglers' Coast of North Yorkshire, he accepts the offer.

Staying overnight in the local village pub, Samuel is warned not to spend too much time there. He is told of the fate of the house's original architect, Francisco Varano, chilling tales of folk driven mad by the house, of it being built on haunted land where young girls have vanished, their ghosts now calling others to their deaths...

It is only on arrival at the Chesterfield house that he learns the sinister details of Varano's disappearance. And yet its owner keeps adding wing upon wing, and no one will tell him the reason behind her chilling obsession . . . But as Samuel delves deeper into the mysteries that swirl about the house, the nature of the project becomes terrifyingly clear.