Every link along the way is a bookman’s tale all its own, and Lovett tells them all, except the very last, of course: because that’s you, about to read this book right now.”-ROBIN SLOAN, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. It forms a chain long and strange enough to tie a heartbroken young scholar from North Carolina back to the Bard himself, who might or might not have been William Shakespeare. Yet the resemblance is uncanny, and Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture’s origins.As he follows the trail back first to the Victorian era and then to Shakespeare’s time, Peter communes with Amanda’s spirit, learns the truth about his own past, and discovers a book that might definitively prove Shakespeare was, indeed, the author of all his plays.Review“With THE BOOKMAN’S TALE, Charlie Lovett tells us a terrific story-there’s mystery and suspense, murder and seduction-but more important, he shows us how it’s all connected, all of this: the reading and the keeping and the sharing of books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its pages.
The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. Peter Byerly isn’t sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller’s search through time and the works of Shakespeare for his lost loveGuaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books, The Bookman’s Tale is a former bookseller’s sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of one of literature’s most tantalizing mysteries with echoes of Shadow of the Wind and A.S.
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