Author : Mel Starr
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459686809
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis A Trail of Ink by : Mel Starr
Download or read book A Trail of Ink written by Mel Starr and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I had never seen Master John Wyclif so afflicted. He was rarely found at such a loss when in disputation with other masters. He told me later, when I had returned them to him, that it was as onerous to plunder a bachelor scholar's books as it would be to steal another man's wife. I had, at the time, no way to assess the accuracy of that opinion, for I had no wife and few books ...'So begins another delightful and intriguing tale from the life of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon in the medieval village of Bampton, near Oxford, and bailiff of Bampton Castle at the behest of Lord Gilbert Talbot. Hugh sets his cap at the delightful Kate, who proves equally resourceful in the search for the missing books. Some very determined adversaries are out to stop him, permanently if necessary - but are they motivated by greed or a more personal animosity? Then the corpse of a poor scholar, who had tried to sell one of the books, is found in the river: but he had not simply drowned ...