The Gameshouse by Claire North - ISBN: 9780356513126
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High-stakes games decide the fate of empires, fortunes, and kings.

The Gameshouse

The Serpent, The Thief and The Master

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  • Paperback

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    28 May 2019

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Summary

Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets …

It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost though chess, backgammon - every game under the sun.

But those whom fortune favours may be invited to compete in the higher league … where the games played are of politics and nations, of economics and kings. It is a contest where Capture the Castle involves real castles and where hide and seek takes place on the scale of a continen…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780356513126
ISBN-10:0356513122
Author:Claire North
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Orbit
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:28 May 2019
Weight:325g
Dimensions:196mm x 124mm x 30mm
Series:The Gameshouse
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Critics Review

North’s talent shines out

One of the fiction highlights of the decade

Little short of a masterpiece

Terrific, smart and entertaining

About The Author

Claire North

Claire North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb, who wrote several novels in various genres before publishing their first major work as Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. It was a critically acclaimed success, receiving rave reviews and becoming a word-of-mouth bestseller. They have since published several hugely popular and critically acclaimed novels, won the World Fantasy Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. They live in London.

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