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Who Needs Cleopatra?,
by Steve Redwood

Published May 2005

ISBN 1 905315 03 1 • £7.99


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“Where does a circle begin? When I met Bertie and we made our first journey through time? Or was the real beginning when I stumbled across that astonishing 16th-century notebook in an Italian farmhouse? But then long before that, in a way, I had provided a wife for Cain, and so allowed myself to exist in the first place...”

What really made the Mona Lisa smile? Why was it so difficult to kill Rasputin? What really happened at Roswell? What was the mysterious connection between the Crucifixion and the Nazca Lines in Peru?

Despite the best attempts of the sardonic narrator 'N' and his hapless sidekick Bertie to solve these and other genuine historical mysteries, all they find is constant danger – and a growing suspicion that they have inadvertently created the very events they are supposed to be investigating. And what do the three deadly Women in Black from the distant future really want?

This richly comic and highly original novel by the author of Fisher of Devils does for history what Jasper fforde did for literature – join Leonardo da Vinci, Boadicea, Cain (and Mabel) and two strangely familiar tramps on mind-contorting paradoxical adventures in the past that also slowly reveal the shocking future awaiting humanity...

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