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The bookman's tale a novel of obsession

After the death of his wife, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from the States to the English countryside, where he hopes to rediscover the joys of life through his passion for collecting and restoring rare books. But when he opens an eighteenth-century study on Shakespeare forgeries, he is shocked to find a Victorian portrait strikingly similar to his wife tumble out of its pages, and becomes obsessed with tracking down its origins. As he follows the trail back to the nineteenth century and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter learns the truth about his own past and unearths a book that might prove that Shakespeare was indeed the author of all his plays.

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  • "Shattered by the death of his wife Amanda, antiquarian bookseller Peter Byerly is drifting through life aimlessly when he stumbles on the Victorian miniature that so forcefully reminds him of her. Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture's origins. But as he follows the trail back, first to the Victorian era and then to Shakespeare's time, he learns much more than that.."
  • "After the death of his wife, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from the States to the English countryside, where he hopes to rediscover the joys of life through his passion for collecting and restoring rare books. But when he opens an eighteenth-century study on Shakespeare forgeries, he is shocked to find a Victorian portrait strikingly similar to his wife tumble out of its pages, and becomes obsessed with tracking down its origins. As he follows the trail back to the nineteenth century and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter learns the truth about his own past and unearths a book that might prove that Shakespeare was indeed the author of all his plays."@en
  • "Shattered by the death of his wife Amanda, antiquarian bookseller Peter Byerly is drifting through life aimlessly when he stumbles on the Victorian miniature that so forcefully reminds him of her. Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture's origins. But as he follows the trail back, first to the Victorian era and then to Shakespeare's time, he learns much more than that.."
  • "Shattered by the death of his wife Amanda, antiquarian bookseller Peter Byerly is drifting through life aimlessly when he stumbles on the Victorian miniature that so forcefully reminds him of her. Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture's origins. But as he follows the trail back, first to the Victorian era and then to Shakespeare's time, he learns much more than that. The truth about his own past, for example; and even possibly the key to the mystery of who really did write Shakespeare's plays."

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  • "Ghost stories"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Talking books"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en

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  • "The bookman's tale a novel of obsession"@en
  • "The bookman's tale : a novel of obsession"
  • "The bookman's tale"

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