What book/s shall get the honour of featuring in the first Wednesday Cover Story for 2013? Well, it’s going to have to be the utterly beautiful designs for the Nicholas Bracewell series by Edward Marston – murder and mystery set around a theatre company in Elizabethan London.

The next three books in the series have just been released (note The Nine Giants is one of our January Books of the Month so £2 off if you buy it from us online – submit promocode BOTM2) which means there are now six titles to collect and beautify your bookshelves with.

And once you stop drooling over the covers, there’s plenty to keep you engrossed within the pages, as the theatre company’s resourceful manager (Bracewell) sees himself having to save his actors from fierce rivals, the Black Plague, Puritan fanatics, axe-murderers, thieves,and other threats, whilst juggling administrative and political issues, and yes, attempting to put on a play…

Chiara Priorelli, Publicity & Online Marketing Manager