The Lies of Locke Lamora Walter Scott Prize Nominee for Historical Fiction Longlist (2020) picture poems

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from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism

is Edward a romantic hero or is he just a stalker

Through brilliant and often darkly comic portraits of these men and their lives

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The Lies of Locke Lamora Walter Scott Prize Nominee for Historical Fiction Longlist (2020) picture poemsIn this stunning debut, Scott Lynch delivers the thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his tightly knit band of tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part "Robin Hood," one part Ocean's Eleven, and entirely enthralling. An orphan's life is harsh and often short in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora