The Bloodless Boy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.45 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1500550698 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 330 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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I'm represented by Sheil Land Associates literary agency. I'm currently busy writing the sequel, provisionally titled The Murder of the Queen's Dwarf. I'm married and I have three splendid children, and live in the Brecon Beacons. Many thanks are due to Gaia Banks there who spotted the original submission. At school I wanted to be an artist, thinking I was going to be the next great English painter. Thanks are also due to Peach Publis
Excellent first novel! This novel was very thought out and engaging. I am hoping Mr. Lloyd writes another novel that is as well researched and entertaining as this one.. Masterful Storytelling Mr. E. Bearne This is an excellent novel. Robert Lloyd has created an exciting, rough, shadowy London, and I enjoyed every minute I spent in it. I love historical fiction, but it's very hard to find novels in which the real historical characters feel like part of the same story as the new characters - this is one of those rare books.The Bloodless Boy is much more than a historical crime thriller: it's a rich exploration of the golden age of scientific discovery in the late 1600s. I really felt like I was experiencing the first autopsies and. Brilliant read I came a across this book quite by accident on Amazon as I was looking for books by a different author.I love Gothic tales so was interested in this new author.The first page caught my imagination at once. One is transported straight into 17th century London with it's mists, murky lanes, sights and smells. As I am an avid reader of history I know that many of the characters actually existed and some of the events in the book actually happened. One cannot help but appreciate the lengths the author has gone into the research sur
Robert Hooke, natural philosopher and Curator of Experiments of the Royal Society is an architect of the rebuilding. London, 1678. As he gets closer to finding the use of the bloodless boy, he uncovers the terrible consequences of experiments performed in the name of the New Science.. Harry, ambitious and wanting to prove himself as an able natural philosopher, and to break free from the shadow of Hooke’s brilliance, takes the lead in investigating the death of the boy. The city, overlooked by the exhumed head of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, teeters on the brink of riot and hysteria, with rumours of Catholic plots, devil-boys, and sinister foreign assassins. He finds a sinister tale with roots in the dark past of the Civil Wars. It is twelve years since the Great Fire ripped through the heart of the city. The blood-drained body of a young boy is discovered in the snow on the bank of the Fleet River. Hooke and his assistant, Harry Hunt, reluctantly agree to investigate the murder of the bloodless boy after instruction from King Charles II
Follow me on Twitter as @robjlloyd. Thanks are also due to Peach Publishing, who published the Kindle version of The Bloodless Boy. I did a BA degree in Fine Art, at Coventry, but moved more into art theory, ideas, and writing. I'm represented by Sheil Land Associates literary agency. Many thanks are due to Gaia Banks there who spotted the original submission. I'm currently busy writing the sequel, provisionally titled The Murder of the Queen's Dwarf. Reviews would be very welcome, too! . The research, and the ideas and characters that I came across stayed with me; after years of tinkering these turned into The Bloodless Boy. It was during my study for an MA in the History of Ideas, in Newcastle, that I discovered Robert Hooke's Diary.