The Shadow King : SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 Harvard University Press Niall Griffiths - a writer

Niall Griffiths - a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowski's Post Office

For the Vatican

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Topics covered include medieval colour-symbolism

Publication Date: 07 Feb 2002

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