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Propinquity is a 1986 novel by the Australian author/journalist John Macgregor. The manuscript won the Adelaide Festival Biennial Award for Literature; the novel was short-listed for The Age Book of the Year. Its author was compared by critics with Read More..

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Description	Propinquity is a 1986 novel by the Australian author/journalist John Macgregor. The manuscript won the Adelaide Festival Biennial Award for Literature; the novel was short-listed for The Age Book of the Year. Its author was compared by critics with PG Wodehouse, Don DeLillo, Julian Barnes, Umberto Eco and Australian Nobellist Patrick White. Despite its critical success, Propinquity was read by few people due to the collapse of its publisher, although in 2013 it was released on Amazon as a Kindle e-book and a CreateSpace print-on-demand paperback.'Propinquity charts a project by a group of Oxford medical undergraduates to bring a medieval English queen - buried deep under Westminster Abbey - back to life. In reviving her, the students intend to expose a 2,000-year-old conspiracy by the Church to repress gnosis - the experiential core of spiritual teaching - to maintain its political power.The attempt is led by a male Oxford medical student and the daughter of the Dean of Westminster, a medieval scholar, who had seen her father visit the secret tomb as a child, and later recalled the memories.
Description	Propinquity is a 1986 novel by the Australian author/journalist John Macgregor. The manuscript won the Adelaide Festival Biennial Award for Literature; the novel was short-listed for The Age Book of the Year. Its author was compared by critics with PG Wodehouse, Don DeLillo, Julian Barnes, Umberto Eco and Australian Nobellist Patrick White. Despite its critical success, Propinquity was read by few people due to the collapse of its publisher, although in 2013 it was released on Amazon as a Kindle e-book and a CreateSpace print-on-demand paperback.'Propinquity charts a project by a group of Oxford medical undergraduates to bring a medieval English queen - buried deep under Westminster Abbey - back to life. In reviving her, the students intend to expose a 2,000-year-old conspiracy by the Church to repress gnosis - the experiential core of spiritual teaching - to maintain its political power.The attempt is led by a male Oxford medical student and the daughter of the Dean of Westminster, a medieval scholar, who had seen her father visit the secret tomb as a child, and later recalled the memories.

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Name	Propinquity
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Authors	John Macgregor
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Genre	Fiction; historical fiction; mystery.
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Language	English
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Country	Australia
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Pages	273
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Isbn	0-949268-99-2
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Publisher	Wakefield Press/South Australian Government
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