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Books: The Mandate Of Heaven
Tim Murgatroyd brings his epic trilogy of novels set in medieval China to a stirring end in The Mandate Of Heaven, says STEPHEN LEWIS
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Central China, 1304 AD. Hou-Ming is a city of ghosts on the shores of a giant lake, a vast graveyard for victims slaughtered by invading Mongol hordes.
Amid the ruins, three Chinese children meet and forge a friendship that will change their lives.
So begins The Mandate of Heaven, the third and concluding part of Tim Murgatroyd's powerful trilogy of novels set in medieval China.
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