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Walled City is the online home of London-based media specialist, researcher, and writer Duncan Hay. Walled City offers a number of different services to the arts, museums, and literature sectors including:
- Writing and research
- Web and Social Media design
- Video and audio podcasting
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New book reviews at Booktrust
Sunday, March 6 2011
The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud
In the desert lands of the Ancient Near East, magicians and kings fight for dominance by commanding supernatural beings—the djinni—to do their bidding. An uneasy equilibrium is maintained by King Solomon, whose Ring grants the bearer seemingly unlimited power, yet the King has many enemies, not least of whom being the assassin Asmira and her reluctant assistant, the demon Bartimeus.
A fantastic, fast-paced adventure story set in a vividly-realised world of Arabian and Biblical myth, and narrated by one of the most charming (if monumentally self-absorbed) demons one could ...