Tamburlaine Must Die

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London, 1593. A city on edge. Under threat from plague and war,
strangers are unwelcome, suspicion is wholesale, severed heads grin from
the spikes on Tower Bridge. Playwright, poet and spy, Christopher
Marlowe walks the city's mean streets with just three days to find the
murderous Tamburlaine, a killer escaped from the pages of his most
violent play. Tamburlaine Must Die is the searing adventure of a man who
dares to defy both God and the state and whose murder remains a
taunting mystery to the present day."Brilliant... as a thriller, her book is utterly engrossing... Elizabethan England has never seemed more beguilingly immediate... It would be hard to better the physical descriptions with which the book is laced; brawny milkmaids; stinking fishwives; the sails of the windmills on Highgate Hill; alehouses packed with humpbacked fiddlers and blowzy whores drinking Spanish wine. Every vignette, every minor character, every sight, sound and smell, has the ring of truth." Julla Flynn, Sunday Telegraph; "A tale of vivid homoerotic passion, murderous treachery and strutting intellectual pride." Financial Times; "Tamburlaine Must Die refines Welsh's powerful vision of death in a godless world... This bold, imaginative, vibrant novella resonates on several levels. Its claustrophobic airs of menace and betrayal are those of a thriller. It works as historical fiction and captures the Tudor setting by virtue of Welsh's extraordinary prose." David Isaacson, Daily Telegraph; "The sort of narrative that you can smell on your hands after turning the pages, with proper attention paid to the pleasures and perils of illicit sex and the importance of seeing and savouring all that's on offer before the lights go out for good." Philip Oakes, Literary Review; "A page-turner to the very end." Ron Butlin, Sunday Herald"