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E: 11/08/07 3x The Savage Garden books
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<center>The Savage Garden
By Mark Mills
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Released 2nd July 2007 - £7.99</center>
This second novel by Mark Mills is a stunning success. It is a very articulate, literary book that slowly builds the very atmospheric plot. It draws the reader, very successfully, into a world of late 1958.
Behind a villa in the heart of Tuscany lies a Renaissance garden of enchanting beauty. Its grottoes, pagan statues and classical inscriptions seem to have a secret life of their own - and a secret message, too, for those with eyes to read it.
Young scholar Adam Strickland is just such a person. Arriving in 1958, he finds the Docci family, their house and the unique garden as seductive as each other. But post-War Italy is still a strange, even dangerous place, and the Doccis have some dark skeletons hidden away which Adam finds himself compelled to investigate.
Before this mysterious and beautiful summer ends, Adam will uncover two stories of love, revenge and murder, separated by 400 years... but is another tragedy about to be added to the villa's cursed past?
'An intriguing puzzle, elegantly written... a pleasure to read... the atmosphere of an Italian summer and of the mysterious garden are beautifully captured'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'Mills writes beautifully; leading us gently and atmospherically through the Tuscan renaissance garden... an unusual, captivating novel that is a cut above the norm'
THE TIMES
'Unputdownable... hugely atmospheric'
DAILY MIRROR
'A mesmerizing piece of writing... Mills is a skillful writer and combines all the disparate strands into a striking tapestry'
INDEPENDENT
'An intriguing historical thriller which confirms him as a first-class and unusual crime writer'
DAILY MAIL
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark Mills is a screenwriter. His film credits include The Reckoning, an adaptation of Barry Unsworth's Morality Play, due for release in Spring 2004. Amagansett is his first novel.
He have been nominated for the Richard and Judy Book Prizes for 'The Savage Garden' and won the John Creasy Dagger Award for his previous novel 'The Whaleboat House'.
We are giving away 3x The Savage Garden books. For your chance to win simply complete the following:
In what year is The Savage Garden set? <input name="CompetitionID" id="CompetitionID" value="518" type="hidden"> <form method="post" action="http://www.thestudentzone.com/competitions/entercomp.php"></form> <table><tbody><tr> <td class="companswer"><input name="AnswerValue" id="AnswerValue" value="1169" type="radio"> 1846</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="companswer"><input name="AnswerValue" id="AnswerValue" value="1170" type="radio"> 1904</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="companswer"><input name="AnswerValue" id="AnswerValue" value="1171" type="radio"> 1958:T</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="companswer"><input name="AnswerValue" id="AnswerValue" value="1172" type="radio"> 2090</td></tr></tbody></table>
By Mark Mills
enter here
Released 2nd July 2007 - £7.99</center>
This second novel by Mark Mills is a stunning success. It is a very articulate, literary book that slowly builds the very atmospheric plot. It draws the reader, very successfully, into a world of late 1958.
Behind a villa in the heart of Tuscany lies a Renaissance garden of enchanting beauty. Its grottoes, pagan statues and classical inscriptions seem to have a secret life of their own - and a secret message, too, for those with eyes to read it.
Young scholar Adam Strickland is just such a person. Arriving in 1958, he finds the Docci family, their house and the unique garden as seductive as each other. But post-War Italy is still a strange, even dangerous place, and the Doccis have some dark skeletons hidden away which Adam finds himself compelled to investigate.Before this mysterious and beautiful summer ends, Adam will uncover two stories of love, revenge and murder, separated by 400 years... but is another tragedy about to be added to the villa's cursed past?
'An intriguing puzzle, elegantly written... a pleasure to read... the atmosphere of an Italian summer and of the mysterious garden are beautifully captured'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'Mills writes beautifully; leading us gently and atmospherically through the Tuscan renaissance garden... an unusual, captivating novel that is a cut above the norm'
THE TIMES
'Unputdownable... hugely atmospheric'
DAILY MIRROR
'A mesmerizing piece of writing... Mills is a skillful writer and combines all the disparate strands into a striking tapestry'
INDEPENDENT
'An intriguing historical thriller which confirms him as a first-class and unusual crime writer'
DAILY MAIL
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark Mills is a screenwriter. His film credits include The Reckoning, an adaptation of Barry Unsworth's Morality Play, due for release in Spring 2004. Amagansett is his first novel.
He have been nominated for the Richard and Judy Book Prizes for 'The Savage Garden' and won the John Creasy Dagger Award for his previous novel 'The Whaleboat House'.
We are giving away 3x The Savage Garden books. For your chance to win simply complete the following:
In what year is The Savage Garden set? <input name="CompetitionID" id="CompetitionID" value="518" type="hidden"> <form method="post" action="http://www.thestudentzone.com/competitions/entercomp.php"></form> <table><tbody><tr> <td class="companswer"><input name="AnswerValue" id="AnswerValue" value="1169" type="radio"> 1846</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="companswer"><input name="AnswerValue" id="AnswerValue" value="1170" type="radio"> 1904</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="companswer"><input name="AnswerValue" id="AnswerValue" value="1171" type="radio"> 1958:T</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="companswer"><input name="AnswerValue" id="AnswerValue" value="1172" type="radio"> 2090</td></tr></tbody></table>
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