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The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. But in the realization of their duties, they find themselves drawn into Cornish''s bizarre, secretive and mystical world. In this spellbinding trilogy a host of memorable characters - defrocked, mischief-making monks, half-mad professors, gypsies and musical geniuses - become entangled in a story that involves theft, perjury, scholarship, murder, love, and the squandering of plenty of cash.

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 28 July 2011
      ISBN-13 9780241952610
      978-0241952610
      ISBN-10 0241952611
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. But in the realization of their duties, they find themselves drawn into Cornish''s bizarre, secretive and mystical world. In this spellbinding trilogy a host of memorable characters - defrocked, mischief-making monks, half-mad professors, gypsies and musical geniuses - become entangled in a story that involves theft, perjury, scholarship, murder, love, and the squandering of plenty of cash.

      Trade Review
      Deliciously readable * New York Times *
      One of the most remarkable achievements of contemporary fiction * Sunday Times *
      Nourishes the brain while it beguiles the senses * Time *
      A first-rate storyteller and a real moralist with a crackling sense of humour * Newsweek *
      Davies combines elements of the fantastic with details of everyday life to show us a world in which the miraculous coexists with the mundane * New York Times *

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