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ADVANCE INFORMATION

The Book of

Tudllan

Tim Hamer

KEY SELLING POINTS

A fast-moving, dual-timeline, action-packed adventure quest for readers aged twelve and above, a cross
between Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.
A coming-of-age story, with detective work, battles, and miraculous happenings that also explores some
sensitive topics like coping with loss, all weaved together with real history and a sprinkling of Celtic
mythology.
An exciting and engaging adventure story with beautiful illustrations

When Alfie’s mother falls gravely ill, doctors say only a miracle can save her.

Having only just moved to the seaside town of Tudllan, Alfie and his dad desperately search to find a cure.
Almost at the point of giving up hope, Alfie hears of a local legend about a sacred cup, mentioned in an ancient
book, the Book of Tudllan.

Over one and a half thousand years earlier, Cai, a young slave, narrowly escapes with his life from a battle,
having sworn to his dying master, one of the last Roman centurions in Britannia, to deliver a mysterious bundle
to a man named Gwion, at a remote sanctuary. He later learns that the bundle contains a sacred cup with
healing powers, also known as the Holy Grail.
Was that sanctuary Tudllan, and does the ancient Book of Tudllan hold clues to its secret resting place?

Alfie, and his friend Melanie, must race against time to decipher the book’s clues in the hope of finding the
cup, before a gang of ruthless treasure hunters do. Alfie believes that it is the only thing that can save his
mother. But does the cup really exist, is the legend true and can it be found in time?

Tim Hamer was born in Birmingham. He attended King Edwards School and graduated in Engineering from
Durham University. He took up a career in Publishing, working for the Thomson Corporation and then as
Director of Knowledge for the IET. He 6rst started creating fantastical stories for his children at bedtime,
eventually inspiring his 6rst novel, The Book of Tudllan. He now writes, carves stone dragons, and builds dry-
stone walls on the wild headland of the Great Orme. Tim resides in Hertfordshire.

Publication Date: 28th January 2024 £8.99 ISBN: 9781805142157
Thema subject category: YFHG – Children’s / Teenage fiction: Mythic fantasy / Mythic fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 136 pp Portrait Author location: Hertfordshire

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