{"id":42138,"date":"2015-08-07T23:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42138"},"modified":"2015-08-07T23:30:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T23:30:30","slug":"the-spirit-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42138","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\/book_info.asp?bookid=3382\" target=\"_blank\">The Spirit of London<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\/matador.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Matador<\/a> (an imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Troubador<\/a>)<br \/>\n2015-09-28<br \/>\n198&#215;127 mm<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781784624057<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robkeeley.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Keeley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\/book_info.asp?bookid=3382\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\/image\/books\/9781784624057.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The spirits were at work here, somehow. But why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On returning to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>, Ellie investigates the mystery surrounding 47 Foster Square. Who is the sender of ghostly messages asking her for help? What is the secret of the Meadowes family? And what does Edward know about all this?<\/p>\n<p>With her parents about to divorce, and her Mum acting very strangely, Ellie quickly discovers that a sinister force lies between her and the truth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u2008Spirit of London<\/em> is the second instalment in the thrilling and suspenseful \u2018Spirits\u2019 series and follows the success of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplesbookprize.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The People\u2019s Book Prize<\/a>-nominated <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\/book_info.asp?bookid=2743\" target=\"_blank\">Childish Spirits<\/a><\/em>. It focuses on slavery and a mixed-race family in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgian_era\" target=\"_blank\">Georgian times<\/a>. Ellie finds herself facing a very dangerous foe and will need all her courage and humanity to get her through. <em>The Spirit of London<\/em> also sets up a story arc that will continue into future books in the series. The book will appeal to girls and boys of upper primary and lower secondary age \u2013 and to parents and teachers reading the book aloud!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spirit of London Matador (an imprint of Troubador) 2015-09-28 198&#215;127 mm Paperback ISBN: 9781784624057 Rob Keeley The spirits were at work here, somehow. But why? On returning to London, Ellie investigates the mystery surrounding 47 Foster Square. Who is the sender of ghostly messages asking her for help? What is the secret of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,414,15,6940,10],"tags":[850,20629,20627,20628],"class_list":["post-42138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family","category-novels","category-slavery","category-uk","tag-london","tag-matador","tag-rob-keeley","tag-troubador"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42139,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138\/revisions\/42139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}