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Alchemical wonder

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June 2007, no. 292

A Little Rain on Thursday by Matt Rubinstein

Text, $32.95 pb, 305 pp, 9781921145728

Alchemical wonder

by
June 2007, no. 292

I realise it is a stretch, but imagine The Da Vinci Code with brains. No, that’s not fair: it obviously takes brains of a kind to top best-seller lists for several years. So try thinking of how a serious intellect, as distinct from a facility for page-turning compulsiveness, might have gone to work on it. Such effort won’t tell you all you need to know about Matt Rubinstein’s new novel, but A Little Rain on Thursday is inter alia about old manuscripts, church history, subterranean chambers, Templars and libraries – and it is compulsive reading.

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