The Gameshouse
By
Claire North
Read by
Peter Kenny
Release:
05/28/2019
Release:
05/28/2019
Runtime:
11h 26m
Runtime:
11h 26m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“As harrowing as it is brilliant.”
Emily St. John Mandel, National Book Award finalist, on 84K
The World Fantasy Award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August presents a mesmerizing tale of a gambling house whose deadly games of chance and skill control the fate of empires.
Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets…
It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon - every game under the sun.
But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league… a league where the games played are of politics and empires, of economics and kings. It is a league where Capture the Castle involves real castles, where hide and seek takes place on the scale of a continent.
Among those worthy of competing in the higher league, three unusually talented contestants play for the highest stakes of all…
Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets…
It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon - every game under the sun.
But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league… a league where the games played are of politics and empires, of economics and kings. It is a league where Capture the Castle involves real castles, where hide and seek takes place on the scale of a continent.
Among those worthy of competing in the higher league, three unusually talented contestants play for the highest stakes of all…
Release:
2019-05-28
2019-05-28
Runtime:
Runtime:
11h 26m
11h 26m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.75 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781549121685
9781549124938
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group
Praise