About this book
A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller's search for his lost love. Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books and literature - in particular the golden age of Shakespeare, Jonson and Marlowe - The Bookman's Tale is a sparkling novel and an engrossing exploration of one of literature's most tantalizing mysteries. After the death of his wife, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from the States to the English countryside, where he hopes to rediscover the joys of life through his passion for collecting and restoring rare books. But when he opens an eighteenth-century study on Shakespeare forgeries, he is shocked to find a Victorian portrait strikingly similar to his wife tumble out of its pages, and becomes obsessed with tracking down its origins. As he follows the trail back to the nineteenth century and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter learns the truth about his own past and unearths a book that might prove that Shakespeare was indeed the author of all his plays.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Hay-on-Wye, Wales, Wednesday, 15th February 1995
- Ridgefield, North Carolina, 1983
- Southwark, London, 1592
- Kingham, Friday, 17th February 1995
- Ridgefield, 1984
- Southwark, London, 1609
- London, Friday, 17th February 1995
- Ridgefield, 1985
- Kingham, Saturday, 18th February 1995
- Westminster, London, 1612
- Ridgefield, 1985
- Kingham, Saturday, 18th February 1995
- Ridgefield, 1985
- Kingham, Saturday, 18th February 1995
- Wakefield, Yorkshire, Northern England, 1720
- Ridgefield, 1985
- Kingham, Sunday, 19th February 1995
- London, 1856
- Hay-on-Wye, Wales, Sunday, 19th February 1995
- Ridgefield, 1985
- London, 1875
- Hounslow, England, Monday, 20th February 1995
- London, 1875
- Ridgefield, 1985
- Cornwall, South-western England, Monday, 20th February 1995
- Ridgefield, 1985
- London, 1875
- Cornwall, Western England, Tuesday, 21st February 1995
- Ridgefield, 1986
- London, 1876
- London, Tuesday, 21st February 1995
- Ridgefield, 1986
- Kingham, 1876
- London, Tuesday, 21st February 1995
- Ridgefield, 1986
- Kingham, 1876
- Ridgefield, 1986
- London, Tuesday, 21st February 1995
- London, 1877
- Ridgefield, 1987
- Oxfordshire, England, Tuesday, 21st February 1995
- Cambridgeshire, England, 1878
- Ridgefield, 1988
- Kingham, Tuesday, 21st February 1995
- Kingham, 1878
- Ridgefield, 1988
- Kingham, Tuesday, 21st February 1995
- Kingham, 1879
- Ridgefield, 1994
- Kingham, Tuesday, 21st February 1995
- Kingham, 1879
- Ridgefield, 1994
- Kingham, 1879
- Kingham, Wednesday, 22nd February 1995
- Kingham, Friday, 23rd June 1995
- Acknowledgements
- Author’s Note
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