The Black Mountain is a Quick Read short story from bestselling author Kate Mosse.
It is May, 1706. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife with her mother and twin younger brothers. The town is in the shadow of a mighty volcano, which legend says has the devil living inside it. However, there has been no eruption for thousands of years and no one believes it is a threat.
One day, Ana notices that the air feels strange and heavy, that the birds have stopped singing. Tending the family vineyard, a sudden strange tremor in the earth frightens her. Very soon it will be a race against time for Ana to help persuade the town that they are in danger and should flee before the volcano erupts and destroys their world. Will they listen? And Ana herself faces another danger . . .
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529088465
Number of pages: 144
Weight: 110 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 10 mm
This is part of the quick reads initiative, a series of short books written simply but well, designed to encourage those who either don't read or who struggle to read to engage with prose.
This is the first Kate...
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The Black MOuntain may be a short read, only 136 pages long, but it certainly packs a punch, filled to the brim with tension and atmosphere and a real feeling of authenticity. That may, in part, come from the fact... More
This was the first book that made me read more it was amazing. So much emotion out into this book and history
I absolutely recommend
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