Pennygaff Lane
A Menagerie of Wonders
Author : Eadweard Christopher Hill
Publication date : May 31, 2026
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Related to: The Anchors of Fate
Reading age : 15 – 18 years
Format: Available on:
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Pennygaff Lane: A Menagerie of Wonders
An Anchors of Fate Novel — Part of The Rune Tamer Saga
London, 1848. Amid the gaslit alleys and carnival smoke of Pennygaff Lane, two Irish brothers — Edmund and Reginald Warrenton — inherit a fading menagerie of exotic beasts and mechanical marvels. But within its dust-covered trunks lies something far older than spectacle: a legacy bound to the lost research of their ancestor Ichabod Ó Cléirigh, a scholar who once sought the divine patterns hidden in sacred beasts.
When a sealed box, long promised by Ichabod himself, arrives in their hands, the brothers uncover fragments of a forgotten mystery — the Bestia Sacra, the Sacred Animals said to bridge the mortal and the divine.
As Edmund delves into illuminated manuscripts and forbidden scriptures, he becomes entangled with Caitríona Ó Raibháin, an Irish immigrant and revolutionary whose devotion to her homeland burns as fiercely as his pursuit of truth. Torn between love and discovery, faith and rebellion, the brothers’ bond begins to fracture.
But destiny — and the unseen hand of their forebears — will draw them toward a revelation no stage curtain can conceal.
Pennygaff Lane: A Menagerie of Wonders is a tale of love, heritage, and the enduring power of family, where myth and history intertwine beneath the flicker of gaslight — a vital chapter in the unfolding mythos of The Rune Tamer Saga.
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