In Blackthorn's shop, Christopher learns the delicate secrets of transforming simple ingredients into powerful medicines, potions and weapons. Fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe is apprenticed to master apothecary Benedict Blackthorn. “In my fourteen years of experience in children’s fiction and even longer experience as a reader, The Blackthorn Key is without doubt one of the best historical novels I have come across” Amanda Punter, Publishing Director Can Christopher solve them before his master’s sinister and ruthless enemies? Well-plotted, exciting and with a fascinating, original background and lively group of dramatis personae, this is a terrific read. His master is not the only apothecary to have been targeted, and he’s left his clever apprentice a series of clues. When Blackthorn is murdered, Christopher is determined to find out who committed the crime, and why.
He can be reckless, even disobedient – the book opens explosively in fact with Christopher creating gunpowder – but loves and respects his master, Benedict Blackthorn. One of our Books of the Year 2015 - September 2015 Debut of the Month Set in the uncertain, dangerous days of 1665, this is a thrilling tale of alchemy, intrigue and murder! Christopher Rowe is an orphan, apprenticed to an apothecary.
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