A Fire Beneath the World

<p><b><H>God has abandoned the world.</H></b><br><b><br>Perfect for fans of Susanna Clarke and Andrew Taylor!<br></b><br><b>A country in flames.</b><br><br><b>1791. </b>The age of belief and superstition is passing. A new light dawns. In Paris, revolution threatens to set the world ablaze.<br><br><b>But whose hand stokes the fire?</b><br><br>Across the sea in England, Thomas Peach lives in quiet retirement. Some call him a magician, others a madman. But when his friend the poetess Arabella Farthingay falls prey to a sinister seducer, Mr Peach''s fading powers are called on once more.<br><br>He follows her to France - and into a world where reason contends with terror, brotherhood with bloodshed, and the last remnants of faith with the oldest enemy of them all...<br><b><br>Praise for Jas Treadwell:</b><br><br>''Treadwell''s book is a <b>magnificent pastiche</b> of 18th-century fiction''<br><i>The Sunday Times</i><br><br>''<i>Tristram Shandy</i> meets <i>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell</i> in a novel that addresses <b>dark disturbing </b>themes with <b>tremendous wit, charm and elegance</b>''<br><i>Daily Express</i><br><br>''Part historical pastiche, part gothic horror, this is an <b>ambitious and stylistically bold </b>18th-century adventure with shades of <i>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell''</i><br><i>SFX</i><br><br>''Treadwell''s book <b>entertains and impresses</b> . . . He must be heartily congratulated both for performing an extraordinary feat of literary ventriloquism and also for reminding us what historical fiction does best: create an entirely convincing vanished world while also using that world as a lens through which to view the present day''<br><i>Guardian</i></p>