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Well-to-do medieval French bookseller, who mysteriously turned into an alchemist centuries after his death. Appears in the Harry Potter books (just so you know).


"The Alchemyst"…

Posted by nickpelling on Jun 26th, 2008.
Nosing around in Borders the other day, I noticed a popular teen alchemist-themed book called "The Alchemyst" (2007) by Michael Scott: it had a nice cover, good in-store marketing (early-teen-eye-high positioning, right next to some Philip Pullman books), and featured John Dee and Nicholas Flamel, doing a whole bunch of the-world-is-in-danger demonological things with two children (Josh and Sophie) ...
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Review of "Indiana Jones and the Philosopher’s Stone"…

Posted by nickpelling on May 28th, 2008 - 1 comment.
No, not the 2008 film (though that too has a crystal skull-based storyline): I'm talking about the 1995 book by Max McCoy, which Bantam have just (May 2008) reissued apropos of nothing (apart from perhaps trying to surf the wave of the film's gigantic marketing spend?) The Voynich Manuscript makes its appearance very early on (p.27, actually the ...
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