Publishing Deal - A M Blake

From today's Bookseller:

Pan Macmillan has bought world rights ...to The Lost Library and a second book by A M Blake. The first book will be published in late 2012 as one of Pan Macmillan's "major launch titles".

The novel is a conspiracy thriller about the ancient library of Alexandria. Founded in the third century BC, it collected major works on mathematics, astronomy and physics but was destroyed under mysterious circumstances. The publisher said: "The Lost Library introduces young history Professor Emily Wess as she is drawn into the midst of a centuries-old ring of lies, deceit, and bloodshed—all in the quest for the world’s greatest single repository of truth, the Library of Alexandria."

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