The Bonehill Curse
by Jon Mayhew
The year is 1868 and Necessity Bonehill lives miserably in a boarding school for young ladies where she has been abandoned by her parents. Overwhelmed by boredom, she is unable to resist temptation when an exotic-looking bottle arrives from her uncle along with instructions never to open it.
Once the stopper is out, the thing inside the bottle wreaks havoc and brings death and destruction. Necessity has just seven days to either kill the demonic creature or return it to its glass prison or she will pay with her own life.
This tense fantasy adventure is enriched with atmospheric historical detail. The juxtaposition of gruesome episodes of violence with magic carpet rides and ancient Eastern philosophy makes for fascinating reading.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Jon Mayhew
Jon Mayhew lives on the Wirral Peninsula close to the Dee marshes with his wife, four children and a menagerie of pets. He has been a teacher for over twenty years and works with children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions. As a child he used to play in the overgrown ruins of a Victorian zoo building dens in the bear pits and imagining that some of the animals still lurked in the thick rhododendrons. When Jon is not writing he enjoys running and has completed seven marathons. Traditional folk music is another passion and he plays mandolin in ceilidh bands. He also enjoys mooching around graveyards for fun and is always listening out for the sound of talons on stone and beaks click, click clicking!
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Reading Age: 10+
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