{"product_id":"trial-of-katterfelto-the-27th-aug","title":"Trial of Katterfelto, The (27th Aug)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the last jittery years of the eighteenth century, England is hungry for marvels. In rides Doctor Gustavus Katterfelto, a celebrity conjurer who once performed for Kings and now lives by his wits, with his battered stage gear and his black cat Cleo. He is joined by Roger Gossage, a young Moroccan Jew stranded in Britain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen a river accident leaves Katterfelto injured and Roger combing the Severn for lost property, he finds a dented silver horn, cold as a grave coin. When breathed into, it answers with a woman’s voice - she speaks of far-off cities, strange machines and in riddles, and soon “the Oracle of Clevelode” is the sensation of the Midlands. Crowds pack Duvernet’s theatre and fields at dusk.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDoom-preachers chant her phrases. Rival magicians and zealots circle. But then a shadowy Constable of the Night sets a trap.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs hysteria rises, Roger begins to suspect the horn is not a trick at all. In Nottingham a scientific committee is formed to test the oracle. What begins as theatre becomes obsession, and ends in a public trial for “pretending to sorcery”, with Roger fighting to save Katterfelto and the voice inside the horn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold as a breathless 'true account', The Trial of Katterfelto is a darkly comic historical fever dream about spectacle, belief, and the price of hearing the future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book House (Thame)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55926947873153,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0280\/7873\/5421\/files\/9780857303288_7405fb23-53e8-4b2e-9a47-14a3a1102772.jpg?v=1784278726","url":"https:\/\/shop.thebookhousethame.co.uk\/products\/trial-of-katterfelto-the-27th-aug","provider":"The Book House Thame","version":"1.0","type":"link"}