Featured Author of the Month: 'Tim Powers' has a New Novel 'Hide Me Among the Graves' Coming in March

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Featured Author of the Month: 'Tim Powers' December 2011

Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel will be released on March 13, 2012.
by:Tim Powers

In the winter of 1862, London veterinarian John Crawford learns that his interlude with a prostitute seven years earlier has produced a daughter. The now-reformed ex-prostitute, Adelaide McKee, has recently learned that their lost daughter is still alive—but that the girl's life and soul are in peril from a vampiric ghost whose murderous attention McKee drew in her bad old days.

The vampire ghost is John Polidori, Lord Byron's one-time physician and uncle to the poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, both of whose works are supernaturally aided by the influence of Polidori. But when Polidori horribly makes a resurrected vampire of Dante's wife, and threatens other family members, the Rossettis know that they must find a way to destroy their monstrous uncle, even though it means the end of their best work.

Thrown together with Crawford and McKee, who hope to find and save their fugitive daughter, the Rossettis find themselves plunged into a supernatural London underworld they never suspected. Each of the mismatched four, and the Artful-Dodger-like daughter too—in the midst of shootings and narrow escapes and supernatural warfare — must ultimately choose between stressful life and the unholy immortality that Polidori offers.

The novel sweeps from high London society to the grimmest slums, from the elegant salons of the West End to the pre-Roman catacombs under St. Paul's cathedral, and ultimately reveals a supernatural revenge plot against England that has been brewing since the queen of the native Iceni was killed by the Roman governor Suetonius in 60 AD.

Book Details:
Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: William Morrow (March 13, 2012)
Language: English

About the Author
Tim Powers is the author of numerous critically acclaimed novels, including Three Days to Never, Declare, Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake Weather, and The Anubis Gates. He is a past winner of the World Fantasy Award, multiple Philip K. Dick Awards and lives in San Bernardino, California.

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Author: Tim Powers Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780061231544 EANList: Edition: First Edition ISBN: 9780061231544 ItemDimensions: Label: William Morrow Languages: ListPrice: Manufacturer: William Morrow NumberOfItems: 1 NumberOfPages: 528 PackageDimensions: ProductGroup: Book ProductTypeName: ABIS_BOOK PublicationDate: 2012-03-13 Publisher: William Morrow ReleaseDate: 2012-03-13 SKU: Y9780061231544 Studio: William Morrow Title: Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel

Product Description From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports readers back to mid-19th century London and features a reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire ghost of Lord Byron’s onetime physician, uncle to poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A novel that, like all his others, is virtually impossible to pidgeonhole—or to resist—Hide Me Among the Graves is the taut, gripping, and utterly remarkable literary thrill ride that Tim Powers fans have been eagerly waiting for.

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