Descent of the Lyre e-book now on GoodReads

Just a quick post to say that The Descent of the Lyre, my EMBA shortlisted novel, is now available as an eBook. It's available for Kindle and should be out as an ePub as well in the next few days.

The GoodReads listing has been updated with the new edition. See the link here. There are also a few sample chapters available online.

Here are a couple of reviews and blurbs, to whet your appetite.

“Blends history and myth… lyrical and well-written.” The Bookseller

“This is a book that is memorable for all the right reasons. The story is gripping and highly original, and it is beautifully written” Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

“It’s just a good novel, a very good read, and a highly memorable tale told simply. Buckingham also writes compellingly as a guitarist, the descriptions of the music also sounding like music, in how the words sit on the page and how the phrases are paced, as well as their effect on the characters… I enjoyed this novel very much for its feeling of being a fable, a handed-down tale, constructed from bits and pieces of fact and fiction, blended back into myth.” Vulpes Libris