There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe.
So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to
stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church — to create a
forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor
is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches — crimes that make no sense to
the modern mind ...
This week's book is Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
