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The tale of the sinking of a Portuguese ship off the coast of Italy in 1516, while attempting to deliver a rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. The hero, Salvestro, is caught up in a mission to Rome by a sect of secretive monks from a Baltic island, their first pilgrimage in 200 years.

A combination of quest, tragedy, political thriller and cultural meditation, this is the first novel from Lawrence Norfolk.

Román odehrávající se v 17. století vypráví životní příběh nejlepšího kuchaře tehdejšího světa, Johna Saturnalla, jehož příjmení odkazuje k slavnostnímu rituálu antických saturnálií, který jeho předkové tajně organizovali v předchozích staletích. V mládí se John naučí umění vytvářet pokrmy tak, aby vypadaly jako něco úplně jiného, než jsou, stejně jako připravit pečeni z celého vola nebo vývar ze všech mořských potvor, co se jich hemžilo před biblickou potopou, anebo koláč pro nevěstu, plněný živými ptáky a hadem. Zjišťuje,...

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It is 18th-century London and John Lempriere, a young scholar, is writing a dictionary of classical mythology in an attempt to exorcise the demons raised by his father's violent and bizarre death. While tending to his father's business affairs, Lempriere discovers a 150-year old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the fabulously wealthy East India Company. But as John begins to untangle the years of mystery and deceit, people begin to die, in ways that mirror the very myths he is researching....

In the remote village of Buckland, a mob chants of witchcraft. It is 1625, and John and his mother are running for their lives. Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla's Wood, John's mother opens her book and begins to tell her son of an ancient Feast kept in secret down the generations. Little does he know that one day, to keep hold of all that he holds most dear, he most realize his mother's vision - he must serve the Saturnall Feast.