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Published 2009: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated

Original black cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 505 + very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear might be expected. (GT927)

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A pacy literary thriller, ‘The Buried Circle’ is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters.

The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems.

In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander Keiller – a millionaire playboy with a passion for ritual magic – plans to reconstruct the 5,000-year-old stone circle at Avebury. As war looms, Frannie Robinson and her boyfriend Davey are among those who fall under Keiller’s spell, with fatal results.

Seventy years later, Frannie’s granddaughter India, filming in the area, survives a helicopter crash. Devastated, she decides to move back to Avebury and to her grandmother, setting out on a quest to discover the truth about her family. But why is her grandmother so reluctant to talk about Keiller and the war? And exactly whose past is India unearthing…?

Jenni Mills was born in Birmingham. She has never been much good at getting up in the morning, so she has had to have lots of different jobs in the hope that nobody would notice this. Mostly, she has worked in broadcasting. She has presented and produced many programmes for BBC Radio Four and has directed TV documentaries for the BBC and ITV. She gained a distinction in her MA in Creating Writing at Bath Spa University, where she now tutors. ‘The Buried Circle’ is her second novel. [Google Books]