The Cornish Trilogy: Whats Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyreof Orpheus

Nourishes the brain while it beguiles the senses TimeTHE CORNISH TRILOGYTHE REBEL ANGELS - WHATS BRED IN THE BONE THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. But in the realization of their duties, they find themselves drawn into Cornishs bizarre, secretive and mystical world. In this spellbinding trilogy a host of memorable characters - defrocked, mischief-making monks, half-mad professors, gypsies and musical geniuses - become entangled in a story that involves theft, perjury, scholarship, murder, love, and the squandering of plenty of cash. Davies combines elements of the fantastic with details of everyday life to show us a world in which the miraculous coexists with the mundane New York Times A first-rate storyteller and a real moralist with a crackling sense of humour Newsweek