Mat Osman

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The Ghost Theatre

**NOW WITH BONUS MATERIAL EXCLUSIVE TO THIS EDITION ** A 2023 HIGHLIGHT in THE TIMES, EVENING STANDARD and OBSERVER ---------------------------------------------------------- 'Wildly inventive' The Times 'Larger than life and twice as much fun' Guardian 'A master storyteller . . . a great read [that] makes you look at a familiar historical period through fresh eyes' Mail on Sunday 'Beautifully written and completely convincing' Observer ---------------------------------------------------- On a rooftop in Elizabethan London two worlds collide. Shay is a messenger-girl and trainer of hawks who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city's fabled child theatre scene, as famous as royalty yet lowly as a beggar. Together they create The Ghost Theatre: a troupe staging magical plays in London's hidden corners. As their hallucinatory performances incite rebellion among the city's outcasts, the pair's relationship sparks and burns against a backdrop of the plague and a London in flames. Their growing fame sweeps them up into the black web of the Elizabethan court, where Shay and Nonesuch discover that if they fly too high, a fall is sure to come... Fantastical and captivating, The Ghost Theatre charts the rise and dramatic destruction of a dream born from love and torn apart by betrayal. ------------------------------ 'Hauntingly beautiful . . . thrilling and thought provoking' Independent 'Utterly transporting' Catriona Ward