{"title":"Books by Matthew Pearl","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780099590354","title":"The Dante Club","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBefore \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e came \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Club…\u003c\/i\u003ethe captivating thriller from the writer whose fans include Dan Brown, Jed Rubenfeld, Kate Mosse and Tess Gerritsen \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoston, 1865. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA small group of elite scholars prepare to introduce Dante’s vision of hell to America. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile a ruthless killer plots in secret to do the same. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge, only this small group are able to decipher the clues – they soon realise the gruesome killings are symbols modeled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the police baffled, lives endangered and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find a way to stop the killer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘An immensely gifted author’ Dan Brown, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eInferno \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Da Vinci Code\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223648416117,"sku":"9780099590354","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099590354_d434a8af-f73e-4b38-951e-577a31af29f7.jpg?v=1786011511"},{"product_id":"9780063338074","title":"Save Our Souls","description":"INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal.   On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers—the ship’s captain Frederick, his wife Elizabeth, their three teenage sons, and their dog—along with the ship’s crew. The family had spotted a promising fishing location when a terrible storm arose, splitting their vessel in two and leaving those onboard adrift on the perilous sea.   When the castaways awoke the next morning, they discovered they had been washed ashore—on an island inhabited by a large but ragged and emaciated man who introduced himself as Hans. Hans appeared to have been there for a while and could quickly educate the Walkers and their crew on the island’s resources. But Hans had a secret . . . and as the Walker family gradually came to learn more, what seemed like a stroke of luck to have the mysterious man’s assistance became something ominous, something darker.   Like David Grann and Stacy Schiff, Matthew Pearl unveils one of the most incredible yet little-known historical true stories, and the only known instance in history of an actual family of castaways. Save Our Souls asks us to consider who we might become if we found ourselves trapped on a deserted island.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367753822581,"sku":"9780063338074","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780063338074.jpg?v=1786011425"},{"product_id":"award","title":"Award","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrips the reader and never lets go\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e';\u003ci\u003eThe Award\u003c\/i\u003e begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition but quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl's addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller.'Tom Perrotta, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTracy Flick Can't Win\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMrs. Fletcher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Club\u003c\/i\u003e comes the word-of-mouth sensation, a thrilling, twisty story about a young writer trying to make his way through a cutthroat literary scene with life-and-death stakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Trent is an aspiring novelist hoping to make a name for himself in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a place where ambitious writers lurk around every corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale, who, behind his celebrated image, is . . . haughty and disdainful, definitely not of the mentor variety. 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