The Gameshouse by Claire North
The World Fantasy Award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August presents a mesmerizing tale of a gambling house whose deadly games of chance and skill control the fate of empires.Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets. . .
It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon -- every game under the sun.
But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league. . . a league where the games played are of politics and empires, of economics and kings. It is a league where Capture the Castle involves real castles, where hide and seek takes place on the scale of a continent.
Among those worthy of competing in the higher league, three unusually talented contestants play for the highest stakes of all. . .
Catherine Webb, a Carnegie Medal-nominated author whose first book was written when she was fourteen years old, goes by the pen name Claire North. She went on to create numerous further novels in other genres before releasing The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, her first major effort as Claire North, in 2014. It was a critical and commercial triumph, earning plaudits and an Audie nomination, as well as a spot on the Washington Post's Best Books of the Year list. Touch, her following book, was again included in the Washington Post's Best Books of the Year list in 2015. Catherine is a theatre lighting designer who enjoys big cities, urban magic, Thai cuisine, and graffiti detecting. She is based in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316491563 |
| ISBN 10 | 031649156X |
| Title | The Gameshouse |
| Author | Claire North |
| Series | Gameshouse |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orbit |
| Year published | 2019-05-28 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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