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What if there were no coincidences? This isn’t to say that everything happens because of Providence, but what if what we thought were coincidences were in fact carefully arranged events? Until Thaniel Steepleton found an elaborate watch in his curiously un-burgled flat after returning home early from the British Home Office, he thought he was leading a very ordinary life. The closest he gets to adventure are the messages that come in on the telegraph. The day he finds the watch, Thaniel has just received a message from Scotland Yard that a group of Irish separatists are planning a series of bombings in six months’ time. The day Thaniel finds the watch is the day coincidences (or carefully arranged events) change his life forever in Natasha Pulley’s The Watchmaker of Filigree Street...

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