John Dee Papers (3 books in series)
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review 1: The Poisoned Pen is a mystery book shop in Scottsdale, Arizona. When there in January, I bought Phil Rickman's The Magus of Hay. I discovered that he had also written this book and that it featured King Arthur, Dr. John Dee, and Glastonbury.It may be Rickman's hand with occult my...
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review 1: Bringing the enigmatic Dr Dee alive is a challenging task, but I think Phil Rickman pulls it off. Although it veers into The Da Vinci Code territory at times, the misty and mysterious Glastonbury setting and exotic cast of Elizabethan characters (including HM herself - tantalisin...
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review 1: Set largely in the borderland of England and Wales centring around the activities of a bandit claiming the mantle of an earlier welsh patriot and who is further involved in a plot to dispose of Robert Dudley. For me, the introduction of Twm Sion Cati was a nice move since I had...