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The Baker's Boy (The Book of Words) - J.V. Jones

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Manufacturer : Orbit
Release date : 4 April 1996
ISBN-10 : 1857233751 | ISBN-13 : 9781857233759

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Book DescriptionThe first novel in a brilliantly crafted trilogy. As the King of the Four Kingdoms lays dying, traitorous conspirators prepare a political marriage to ensure their control of the crown. But the young Melliandra refuses to betroth a sinister Prince and flees the castle in the company of a miracle-working kitchen apprentice ... (more)


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Another great version of the kitchen boy

Posted : 3 years, 7 months ago at May 21 9:50
This is the first volume in The Book of Words trilogy (followed by A Man Betrayed, and Master and Fool). At Castle Harvell, Jack, a thirteen-year-old orphan, is the baker's boy. Since he doesn't know how to read, the mischevious king's chancellor and sorcerer Baralis employs him as a blind scribe to copy the precious books of Tavalisk the Archbishop of Rorn's library. After five years of hard work and little sleep, Jack has secretly learnt how to decipher the signs and dreams of adventures where he'll find out the truth about his origins. In the meantime, Bevlin the wiseman enrolls Tawl, one of the famous Knights of Valdis, to go on a quest to find the young boy whom the Prophecy in Marod's Book of Words speaks of. Four years later, he'll find himself locked, bound and starved in a d...Read more

Rating : 9/10