{"product_id":"fire-beneath-the-world","title":"Fire Beneath the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGod has abandoned the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for fans of Susanna Clarke and Andrew Taylor!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA country in flames.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1791. \u003c\/b\u003eThe age of belief and superstition is passing. A new light dawns. In Paris, revolution threatens to set the world ablaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut whose hand stokes the fire?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Jas Treadwell:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Treadwell's book is a \u003cb\u003emagnificent pastiche\u003c\/b\u003e of 18th-century fiction'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e in a novel that addresses \u003cb\u003edark disturbing \u003c\/b\u003ethemes with \u003cb\u003etremendous wit, charm and elegance\u003c\/b\u003e'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Part historical pastiche, part gothic horror, this is an \u003cb\u003eambitious and stylistically bold \u003c\/b\u003e18th-century adventure with shades of \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSFX\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Treadwell's book \u003cb\u003eentertains and impresses\u003c\/b\u003e . . . 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'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54249852633432,"sku":"9781529347401","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529347401_2ceee3b6-15e7-4bd7-8d3a-22dbb54db612.jpg?v=1765667737","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fire-beneath-the-world","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}