Journal Entry 1 by wyldetwo from Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, September 23, 2011

Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment - this remarkable novel centres around a young woman, Sarah Blundy, who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College. Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion;Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause, determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II, a mathematician, theologican and master spy; and Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiqary.


Each one tells their version of what happened but only one reveals the extraordinary truth. Brilliantly written, utterly convincing, gripping from the first page to the last, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a magnificent tour de force. 

Journal Entry 2 by wyldetwo at Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, September 23, 2011

This has been waiting on a pile to be read and registered for ages, sounds like time it found a new reader. Hoping to find AliceF at the BCUK Unconvention tomorrow and pass it to her ... 

Journal Entry 3 by AliceF at BCUK UnConvention 2011, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Monday, September 26, 2011

Picked up at the 2011 UnConvention. Read a copy ages ago and recommended this to my boss recently, so bringing it home for him.  

Journal Entry 4 by AliceF at Warwick Business School - staff lounge in Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Released 8 mos ago (9/27/2011 UTC) at Warwick Business School - staff lounge in Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom

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Passed on to the Dean.