The Crystal Skull - Manda Scott

Book Info: Name: The Crystal Skull Author: Manda Scott Released: January 2008 Series: N / A Awards: N / A Manda Scott, veterinary surgeon and renowned bestselling author, is well known for her successful Boudica series. With the release of Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2007, this novel was extremely well marketed to tell a different story of a skull made of blue quartz, though both concepts are not linked. The amount of recent titles based on a race to save the world with an ancient conspiracy at heart is countless. Hailed by The Times as one of Britain s most important crime writers . . . can Manda Scott join the acclaimed list of authors ...

Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle - Manda Scott

I first came across Manda Scott when I read one of her crime novels, Stronger Than Death, which I thoroughly enjoyed, so I looked for other books she had written and found Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle, the first in her series about the life and times of Boudica or Boadicea as she was know when I was at school. Firstly, this book is very hard to categorise and doesn t fit entirely into the genre of Science Fiction/Fantasy but could also be described as a historical novel. Historically, there is no doubt that Boudica existed although details of her life are pretty sketchy and what is know was written by the Romans. Manda Scott has built on limited information about the ...