The Anubis Gates

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 intrigue between rival bands of beggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, befriended by Coleridge, Doyle somehow survives. And learns more about the mysterious Ashbless than he could ever have imagined possible.A roller-coaster ride through a world teeming with characters ranging from the grotesque to the fiendish: tremendous fun - City LimitsAn adventure novel... an impressively intricate time-travel conundrum... a supernatural thriller... a literary mystery... a horror story... a catastrophe of necromancy and ruin... virtuoso performance, a display of marvellous fireworks that illuminates everything in flashes - Times Literary SupplementCover Illustration: Richard Carr