Book
NobberOisín Fagan

Nobber

2019302 pages
No counted ratings yet
3 editions
HistoricalLiterary

Track this book

You choose which shelves are public. Progress and read dates stay yours.
Sign in
Add to list

About

An ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the stifling summer of 1348, using the advantage of the plague which has collapsed society to buy up large swathes of property and land. They come upon Nobber, a tiny town, whose only living habitants seem to be an egotistical bureaucrat, his volatile wife, a naked blacksmith, and a beautiful Gaelic hostage. Meanwhile, a band of marauding Gaels are roaming around, using the confusion of the sickness to pillage and reclaim lands that once belonged to them. As these groups converge upon the town, the habitants,…

More like this

Reviews

Rating integrity

Healthy
Counted ratings come from accounts older than 7 days and were made on or after publication. Finished readers weigh ×1.0. Readers who have not finished yet weigh ×0.5. Did-not-finish ratings are shown but not counted.

Editions

3 editions
  • Other · English · 2020
    Hodder & Stoughton · 9781529329810
  • Other · English · 2019
    New Island Books · 300 pages · 9781848407114
  • Other · English · 2019
    Hodder & Stoughton · 304 pages · 9781529389098
English literatureFictionHistory