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Robertson Davies: The Cornish Trilogy: What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus [2011] paperback HUMUR 'My pick for book ofThe University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. But in the realization of their duties, they find themselves drawn into Cornish's bizarre, secretive and mystical world. In this spellbinding trilogy a host of memorable characters defrocked, mischief