KING OF SHADOWS

By Susan Cooper

Synopsis

When Nat, a young actor, wakes up one morning he finds himself in the past. It is 1599 and he is acting at the Globe Theatre with William Shakespeare, but why is he here?

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Narrator	Gill Wilsher
Length	6hrs
Catalogue No.	616245
Publisher	Penguin Group (UK)

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