“Endymion Spring” is Matthew Skelton’s debut novel. It starts
off in medieval Mainz, in the Gutenberg era (the 1450s). A printer’s apprentice
finds a strange book with clasps fashioned in the form of snakeheads. Trouble
is, the fangs are rumoured to be poisoned… The apprentice can’t resist touching
the book, the fangs do indeed prick his fingers, and the book opens to reveal a
secret that will endure for over 500 years, until another boy stumbles upon it.
Blake is visiting an Oxford college library with his academic mother and
younger sister. Finding the library oppressive, Blake runs his fingers along
the dusty shelves, and his fingers are pricked by the same fangs… The ancient
book responsible is entitled “Endymion Spring”: although it has no words, the
texture of the pages seem alive with what looks like veins… But as Blake looks
closer, words do appear, words that only he can read… Has this lonely boy
“without a voice” been chosen by the book to fulfil its destiny? Thus begins a
quest for knowledge and power that threatens the whole of humanity… To find out
more about the author, you must visit our Matthew Skelton page.
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