The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

NOTE: Actual copy is the Ace Science Fiction edition. Image for reference only.

Format: Trade paperback

Condition: vg-/good+ condition, minor shelf wear, light spine creasing

Size: 5.25"x8.0"

Pages: 464pp

"An adventure novel... an impressively intricate time-travel conundrum... a supernatural thriller... a literary myster... a horror story... a catastrophe of necromancy and ruin... virtuoso performance, a display of marvellous fireworks that illuminates everything in flashes"- Times Literary Supplement

Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth-century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But, while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about the gates in time. Caught up in the intrigues between rival bands of begggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, befriended by Coleridge, Doyle somehow survives. And learns more about the mysterious Ashbless than he could ever have imagined possible....