Bloodstone Margaret Drabble and everyone knew that they

and everyone knew that they wouldnt last very long

both Jenny and Banks's wife are drawn deeper into events

its author is an arrogant but brilliant homosexual whose life has crossed with that of Darwin with startling regularity

this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus

Driven by the desire to repay the treachery of his former patron

Bloodstone Margaret Drabble and everyone knew that theyDecember, 1380. When the corpse of Sir Robert Kilverby, a wealthy Cheapside merchant, is discovered in a locked room, Brother Athelstan accompanies the King's coroner to investigate. For the late Sir Robert had in his possession a priceless relic, a sacred bloodstone which he was planning to donate to the Abbey of St Fulcher on Thames. The bloodstone has disappeared and the Regent, John of Gaunt, who covets the relic for himself, is taking an