The Burning Library: A Novel

"The Burning Library by Gilly Macmillan Macmillan—best known for more conventional thrillers like What She Knew and The Nanny —has swerved into dark academia territory for this scholarly suspense novel about a medieval manuscript that has earned comparisons with Dan Brown’s international blockbuster The Da Vinci Code . Dr Anya Brown, a brilliant young scholar, has been recruited by St Andrews University, Scotland, to continue her groundbreaking work translating a rare and mysterious ancient text. Soon she will come to realise that she is only a pawn in a far greater game being played between shadowy secret societies—as she is drawn into a vast global conspiracy. Ambitious, sprawling and—yes, okay—perhaps a little bit silly, The Burning Library offers its readers a complex, quirky treasure hunt with a feminist twist."