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I've been reading The Bottle Conjuror, and it's quite a ride! The plot is fabulous, the book beautifully written, and the historical details of 18th Century London are fascinating throughout. How can I have been drawn in by the possibility of a human disappearing into a wine bottle? Preposterous, yet I kept imagining it, kept thinking it was going to happen. As with any great book, the magic is in the prose.

--John Thorndike, author of Another Way Home

With The Bottle Conjuror, eighteenth-century London comes alive as Kachuba and Gagliardo take a little-known but fascinating historical event and turn it into a thrilling narrative with exciting characters and lively dialogue. Stefan, a sensitive but ambitious Romani conjuror, advertises that he will climb into a common wine bottle at London’s Haymarket Theatre before a live audience. Will he succeed before his enemies catch up with him? Deftly combining adventure, humor, and romance, the authors bring a centuries-old tale of mystery and magic to life for a modern audience.”

D. Felton, author of Haunted Greece and Rome and Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History

THE BOTTLE CONJUROR is a work of literary magic. With an illusionist’s flourish, the book transforms an arcane historical event into a captivating tale of intrigue, romance, and the dark arts of the Romani culture. Set in 18th-century London, the reader is transported into the beating heart of the city complete with the sights, sounds and scents of everyday life. Aristocrats, prize fighters, ladies of the evening, soothsayers, and shysters all play a role in this well-wrought tale that builds to a rousing conclusion – yet sets the stage for a sequel.

--R.A. Moss, author of King Robin

The Novel does give the reader a sense of Georgian London, and a plausible backstory to one of the great unexplained incidents of the time. For reader's interested in the atmosphere of that period, the novel is worth a look.

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