E: 03/09 Read and review the new Michel Faber (Waterstones Cardholder)

In November, The Fire Gospel, the long-awaited new novel from The Crimson Petal and the White author, Michel Faber, is published.

Theo Griepenkerl is a modest academic with an Olympian ego. When he visits a looted museum in Iraq he finds nine papyrus scrolls that have lain hidden for two thousand years. Once translated from Aramaic, these prove to be a fifth Gospel, written by an eye-witness of Jesus Christ's last days...
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