To Kill Or Cure: The Thirteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew

To Kill Or Cure: The Thirteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew

448 pages
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Published: 1 Jan 2008
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ISBN: 9780751569537

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Sphere

Publication date: 5 June 2018

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In the year 1357, Cambridge University is in dire financial straits: the town's landlords are demanding an extortionate rent rise for the students' hostels and the plague years have left the colleges with scant resources. Tension between town and gown is at boiling point and soon explodes into violence and death.Into this maelstrom comes a charismatic physician whose healing methods owe more to magic than medicine - but his success threatens Matthew Bartholomew's professional reputation, and his life ...