He also works through insecurities over his budding writing career and how others do, or will, perceive it, all while struggling with the realization that his faith in God is starting to wane. There is also the start of budding romantic feelings toward Roberta, whom he and Jim are beginning to notice is developing into more than just their friend. Not an easy task as he must do this while dealing with lots of backlash from his strict Catholic teachers and parents. Dominic persuades his friends to help get to the bottom of Noble’s activities. The conflict starts after Dominic discovers that a teacher at his school, Christian Noble, has formed his own church declaring that he has the ability to bring back the dead. These friends play right into the role of detectives and not just on the pages that Dominic writes. Dominic is a young writer whose stories includes his two best friends in a series of adventures. Set in 1950’s England, it centers around a young boy, Dominic Sheldrake who attends a Catholic school, and his two best friends Jim and Roberta, "Bobby".
I have read many of Ramsey Campbell's books and have never been disappointed. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established the award winners, and exciting, original voices. FLAME TREE PRESSis the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. A monstrous discovery beneath a church only hints at terrors that are poised to engulf the world as the trilogy brings us to the present day. As Dominic and his friends Roberta and Jim investigate, they can't suspect how much larger and more terrible the link between these mysteries will become. Meanwhile a widowed neighbour joins a church that puts you in touch with your dead relatives, who prove much harder to get rid of. On a school trip to France teenager Dominic Sheldrake begins to suspect his teacher Christian Noble has reasons to be there as secret as they're strange. And a damn fine writer at that" - Guillermo del Toro Book 1 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. Featured in Library Journal's Top 20 Horror Bestseller List "An absolute master of modern horror.
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