{"product_id":"9781529347364","title":"Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach","description":"'Treadwell's book is a magnificent pastiche of 18th-century fiction'The Sunday Times'Tristram Shandy meets Jonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell in a novel that addresses dark disturbing themes with tremendous wit, charm and elegance'Daily Express'Part historical pastiche, part gothic horror, this is an ambitious and stylistically bold 18th-century adventure with shades of Jonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell'SFX'Treadwell's book entertains and impresses . . . He must be heartily congratulated both for performing an extraordinary feat of literary ventriloquism and also for reminding us what historical fiction does best: create an entirely convincing vanished world while also using that world as a lens through which to view the present day'GuardianWHO IS THOMAS PEACH?Ah, reader! -- if you would have us answer THAT question   -- What mysteries you shall compel us to expose!It is the year 1785, and a gentleman of modest means   has left London for the countryside, to look after his ailing wife.Among his new neighbours, tongues begin to wag. Why   does he keep a locked chest under the stairs? Is it really full of forbidden   books? And what exactly is the matter with his wife?For the most part, though, the couple live in peace --   until a letter arrives, threatening to cut off their livelihood and expel   them from their home.Faced with the prospect of penury -- and perhaps worse   -- the gentleman rides out in search of some means to save himself.But fate has other plans for Thomas Peach.A bizarre request brings an encounter with a mysterious   young woman, raised from infancy as a rich man's ward, now condemned to the   madhouse. As their paths become disturbingly entangled, Mr Peach begins to   suspect that in her past lies a dreadful secret . . .Dreadful indeed! -- Yet however fearful the poor child's   history -- can her secret be darker, than HIS OWN?","brand":"Jas Treadwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46904492589374,"sku":"9781529347364","price":309.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781529347364.jpg?v=1707533955","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781529347364","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}