This Iron Race: Book One

By Sir Tamburlaine Bryce MacGregor

When magic dies, who pays the price?

In an 1864 that never was, the old ways are fading. Magick-once woven through every culture across the globe-is dying, strangled by the iron rails and telegraph wires of industry. In Scotland and Anglia magick remains legal, just, but the church condemns its practitioners and followers as sinful, and to polite society it is disreputable and dangerous.

Sir Tamburlaine Bryce MacGregor's masterwork tells the story of those caught in this changing world: it is an unflinching, sometimes violent, sometimes sensual tale of second-sight, royal scandal, orphaned children, grinding poverty, evictions and afflictions, wandering spirits, ambition, betrayal, seaweed, whisky, and murder.

Twelve voices rise from its pages-some with the gift of Grace, others touched for good and ill by the supernatural, as the old ways collide with an Iron Race that has no place for magick.

But the book published in 1864 isn't the work MacGregor intended.

In 2018, scholar Nevil Warbrook has devoted his life to literature and the work of Sir Tamburlaine and when a charismatic psychic claims he practised sorcery Nevil defends him by returning to the original first draft of This Iron Race and restoring the text as MacGregor intended.

But is Nevil defending a literary reputation, or uncovering something that will change his life and the life of everyone he knows?

Two timelines. Twelve voices. One book that refuses to reveal all its secrets.

Perfect for readers who loved Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Possession, and novels where books themselves hold mysterious power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C9SBNW2W
• ISBN13: 9798396038028
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"