The Architect's Apprentice

by Colin Garrow

Overview

London, 1630. A boy searching for his father. A villain stealing books.

Forced to work for the dubious Savidge, eleven-year-old Tom Fennel is desperate to find his father. Distrustful of what he's heard, he's sure Savidge is involved. Meanwhile, books are vanishing from architect Martin Deacon's library - books from the future. Enticed into the mysterious world of updrafts and secrets, Tom learns that finding his father is the least of his worries.

THE ARCHITECT'S APPRENTICE is book #1 in this epic time-slip adventure series.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940152057546
Publisher:	Colin Garrow
Publication date:	07/25/2015
Series:	The Maps of Time , #1
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	372 KB
Age Range:	5 - 11 Years

About the Author

Colin Garrow grew up in a former mining town in Northumberland. He has worked in a plethora of professions including: taxi driver, antiques dealer, drama facilitator, theatre director and fish processor, and has occasionally masqueraded as a pirate. All Colin's books are available as eBooks and most are also out in paperback, too. His short stories have appeared in several literary mags, including: SN Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Word Bohemia, Every Day Fiction, The Grind, A3 Review, 1,000 Words, Inkapture and Scribble Magazine. He currently lives in a humble cottage in North East Scotland where he writes novels, stories, poems and the occasional song.

Editorial Reviews

08/08/2016
This fast-paced first book in Garrow’s Maps of Time series introduces Tom Fennel, an 11-year-old boy working to pay off his missing father’s debt in 1630 London. Tom works for Ambrose Savidge, a man who makes his living by dubious means. After helping Savidge steal books from a private library, Tom meets the man who owns them, architect Martin Deacon. After orchestrating Savidge’s arrest, Deacon takes Tom on as his apprentice and explains that he suspects the books were targeted because they hadn’t yet been printed: Deacon reveals that there are certain areas in the world that allow a person to travel through time and that the people who hired Savidge are intent on discovering his secret. Tom navigates betrayal, murder, and the timestream to stay alive and protect those he cares about. Garrow’s story has a nifty premise and agreeable characters, though both are undercut somewhat by overwritten dialogue where Deacon is concerned (“The mysteries of time are such, my boy, that I am in possession of many facts which I am at this instance unable, or to put it more correctly unwilling, to explain”) and an overwhelming string of rapidly deployed twists. Ages 8–12. (BookLife)

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