Get ready for thrills, intrigues, mystery and piracy all set in Tudor England and featuring a young man named Will Shakespeare…
"I'd give anything for a good horse right now…" says young Will Shakespeare.
When Will gets mixed up in poaching, his father sends him away from Stratford in a band of travelling actors. On the outskirts of London, a fierce storm forces them to take refuge at the house of Doctor Dee - Queen Elizabeth I's astrologer. While there, they get caught up in a plot involving piracy, "magic" and the secret of the "Devil's Fire".
Another compulsive "it could really have happened!" adventure by the author of Leonardo and the Death Machine.
| ISBN: | 9780007194247 |
| Publication date: | 3rd July 2006 |
| Author: | Robert J Harris |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Children's Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 287 pages |
| Genres: |
Adventure Stories Children’s / Teenage general interest: Queens, kings, princesses, princes etc Historical Fiction |