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Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk0116 279 2299Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change without notice. 09/08/2024Sales: Star Book Sales LLP T: 01404 515050E: enquiries@starbooksales.comOrders: Troubador PublishingJustin Newland writes secret history thrillers, history with a supernatural twist. His novels represent an innovative blend of genres from historical adventure to supernatural thriller and magical realism. Author, speaker and broadcaster, Justin gives historical talks and radio interviews. A Ph.D. in Mathematics, he lives with his partner in plain sight of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England.Publication: 31st OCTOBER2024ISBN: 9781835740330Price: %u00a39.99Binding: PaperbackFormat: 216 x 138 mmExtent: 288 pp Illustrated: NoneThema: FV Historical fictionAuthor location: SomersetComparative title: 9781915853271The Mark of the Salamander%u2022 The Midnight of Eights is the second in The Island of Angels series.%u2022 A historical fantasy and adventure novel following Nelan, a Flemish immigrant living in Elizabethan London, on his continued adventures.%u2022 The fifth historical adventure from Justin Newland.1580.Nelan Michaels docks at Plymouth after sailing around the world aboard the Golden Hind. He seeks only to master his mystical powers %u2013 the mark of the salamander, that mysterious spirit of fire%u2013 and reunite with his beloved Eleanor.After delivering a message to Francis Walsingham, he%u2019s recruited into the service of the Queen%u2019s spymaster, where his astral abilities help him to predict and thwart future plots against the realm. But in 1588, the Spanish Armada threatens England%u2019s shores.So how could the fledgling navy of a small, misty isle on the edge of mainland Europe repulse the greatest fleet in the world?Was the Queen right when she claimed it was divine intervention,saying, %u2018He blew with His winds, and they were scattered!%u2019?Or was it an entirely different intervention %u2013 the extraordinary conjunction of coincidences that Nelan%u2019s astral powers brought to bear on that fateful Midnight of Eights?ISBN 978-1-83574-033-09 7 8 1 8 3 5 7 4 0 3 3 0THE MIDNIGHT OF THE EIGHTSJustin Newland