{"product_id":"9781529347401","title":"A Fire Beneath the World","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Treadwell, James \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHorror \u0026amp; ghost stories\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 11 April 2025 by Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton (Hodder Paperback) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 464 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 132 x 28 | 326g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGod has abandoned the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of Susanna Clarke and Andrew Taylor!A country in flames.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1791. The age of belief and superstition is passing. A new light dawns. In Paris, revolution threatens to set the world ablaze.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut whose hand stokes the fire?Across the sea in England, Thomas Peach lives in quiet retirement. Some call him a magician, others a madman. But when his friend the poetess Arabella Farthingay falls prey to a sinister seducer, Mr Peach's fading powers are called on once more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe follows her to France - and into a world where reason contends with terror, brotherhood with bloodshed, and the last remnants of faith with the oldest enemy of them all...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Jas Treadwell:'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'Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46738639814915,"sku":"9781529347401","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781529347401.jpg?v=1744299578","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781529347401","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}