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The Conjuror's Bird | 
 enlarge | Author: Martin Davies
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 46191
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0340896183
EAN: 9780340896181
ASIN: 0340896183
Publication Date: September 21, 2006
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 The best book I've read for ages November 23, 2008
This is a wonderful book and I've been recommending it to so many people. It starts off with a fabulously titled first chapter and just gets better and better. The narrative is beautifully woven between two time frames, and the writer's style changes to suit the time as does the typeface. I adored both the modern day and the past-time stories. Emotionally intense, believable characters that I really cared about; wonderful finely-drawn descriptions... I LOVED this and plan on reading it again very soon. A keeper rather than a pass-it-on book.
 the conjurors bird June 17, 2008
I committed 2 grave sins of book buying with this one - (1) i bought it because i liked the cover, and, (2) because it was cheap. After a fairly slow start i really enjoyed it,(i would go as far as to say i couldn't put it down!) very original and a nice surprise for a bargain buy!!
Delightful read April 12, 2008
I have just read this book for the second time and am pleased to say that I enjoyed it just as much, if not possibly more, than the first time! Perhaps because the book is rooted in fact, the characters seemed all the more believable. This is a gentle read - no explosive fireworks - but gives an incredible insight into an age long gone and a love doomed from the start.
A Gripping Blend of Past and Present February 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Naturalist Joseph Banks became famous after voyaging with Captain Cook on his first voyage of discovery to the far side of the world. Banks had been fortunate to encounter many sights and sounds that no other Englishman had ever had the opportunity to see, but none of them had come close to capturing his imagination like the image of the elusive woman, a woman with the most striking green eyes, who haunted the woods close to his home.
A couple of hundred years later a man stumbles on an old portrait of a young woman with alarmingly striking eyes, but who is she.
John Fitzgerald the discoverer of the portrait, has lost too much, the brash assertiveness of his youth. The belief that one day he was bound to make a name for himself and the love of his life, Gabby. But an unexpected call from his lost love brings it all rushing back to him and also embroils him in a mystery that repels and fascinates him at one and the same time.
Now he is in a desperate race to solve the puzzle of the Conjuror's Bird. And the woman in the portrait could provide the key.
Didn't expect to enjoy this, but I did. February 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this second hand as a time-filler, but enjoyed it so much that I reached the end and started back at the beginning again. It is a loooooong time since I found a book that made me want to do that! There are several inter-twining stories (Joseph Banks and his mistress, Fitz and the bird hunt, Fitz and Gabriella's tragic past, Fitz's grandfather and the African peacocks), which interleave very well without distracting from each other. This is quite a skill.
I was not over-excited about starting it - a book about extinct birds . . . not really my cup of tea, but it is written so warmly that since finishing it I've found myself googling the Ulieta bird and ordering biographies of Joseph Banks.
My only quibble is that it could have been a little more complicated - some of the pieces fit a little too neatly, but it's really a small complaint.
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