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|title=Black Arts Black Arts

|author=Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil

|reviewer=Jill Murphy

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=496

|publisher=David Fickling

|date=March 2012

|isbn=0385615132

|video=L69ZnZAF9hY

}}

London, 1592. Jack successfully completes a test with a local crime family and becomes a "nipper" or cutpurse thief. But Jack's first victim accidentally brings him into contact with a London even more dangerous than the one he already knows - one where magic is real and the fight between good and evil can have fatal consequences. Jack returns home to find his mother murdered by Nicholas Webb, a charismatic Puritan preacher currently whipping up the London crowds against demons and witches.

[[Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer]] is a time-slip adventure set in the present and in the eighteenth century and has a similar energy and vigour about it, especially concerning setting and dialogue. [[Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times by L Brittney]], a highly enjoyable retelling of Shakespeare's Othello, may also appeal.

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