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The Ghost Theatre

by Mat Osman
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A wild and hallucinatory reimagining of Elizabethan London, with its bird worshippers, famed child actors, and the Queen herself; a dazzling historical novel about theatre, magic, and the dangers of all-consuming love
   
London, 1601âa golden city soon to erupt in flames. Shay is a messenger-girl, falconer, and fortune teller who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the cityâs fabled Blackfriars Theatre, where a cast of press-ganged boys perform for Londonâs gentry. When the pair meet, Shay falls in love with the performancesâand with Nonesuch himself. As their bond deepens, they create the Ghost Theatre, an underground troupe that performs fantastical plays in the cityâs hidden corners. As their fame grows the troupe fans the flames of rebellion among the cityâs outcasts, and the lovers are drawn into the dark web of the Elizabethan court. Embattled, with the plague on the rise throughout the country, the Queen seeks a reading from Shay, a moment which unleashes chaos not only in Shayâs life, but across the whole of England too.
   
A fever-dream full of prophecy and anarchy, gutter rats and bird gods, Mat Osmanâs The Ghost Theatre is a wild ride from the rooftops of Elizabethan London to its dark underbelly, and a luminous meditation on double lives and fluid identities and the bewitching, transformative nature of art and power, with a bittersweet love affair at its heart. Set amid the vividly rendered England of Osmanâs imagination and written in rich, seductive prose, The Ghost Theatre will have readers under its spell from the very first page.

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    June 27, 2023

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    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9798887070179

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9798887070179
      • File size: 2681 KB

  • Languages

    • English

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  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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  • English
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