by Adam Williams · HODDER & STOUGHTON INGLES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781444700282
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«The Book of the Alchemist» is the historical novel by Adam Williams, published by Hodder & Stoughton in paperback (512 pages, in English).
The novel alternates between two eras in Andalusia: in the 11th century, an alchemist, a mason and a prince secretly found a brotherhood to erect a great monument; in 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, Republican soldiers hold a former minister and his grandson in a cathedral, and the discovery of an ancient book beneath the temple could be their only way out.
The novel was published in 2010 and its subtitle is «Courage and Redemption in War-Torn Andalusia».
For readers of historical fiction and war fiction, with an interest in Spanish history and plots that connect different eras.
