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An Instance of the Fingerpost is a long but involving book, which pays great attention to its historical setting and theme, but at the same time ma Good historians are not necessarily good authors and good authors are not necessarily good historians, but in Fingerpost Pears manages to strike a comfortable balance between both professions. Riverhead Books. All the rumbles I had heard said historical fiction and made claims that it was like Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose, a book I have read and liked.. As Arcadia was one of those books that leave you bereft when they finish, I sought out more from the same author and ordered An Instance of the Fingerpost. I first read An Instance of the Fingerpost when it came out in 1997, and it’s safe to say that it was like no crime novel I’d ever read before. As Arcadia was one of those books that leave you bereft when they finish, I sought out more from the same author and ordered An Instance of the Fingerpost. As Arcadia was one of those books that leave you bereft when they finish, I sought out more from the same author and ordered An Instance of the Fingerpost. Get this book in print.
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It was also one of the first historical novels (other than classics) I’d read and kindled a love in me for the genre.
Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt. … AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST By Iain Pears 694 pages.
An Instance Of The Fingerpost by Iain Pears Published by Random House on April 30th 2011 Genres: Fiction, General, Historical, Mystery & Detective, Crime Pages: 704 Goodreads ISBN: 9781446466230 . Oliver Cromwell, rebel and "lord protector" of England, is dead, and the monarchy of Charles II has been restored to power.
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