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| Editor | Lisa Berriman |
|---|---|
| Author | John Macgregor |
| Cover artist | Maureen Prichard |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Religious conspiracy; gnosticism; Westminster Abbey; cryogenics |
| Genre | Fiction; historical fiction; mystery |
| Publisher | 1986 Wakefield Press/South Australian Government (orig.) 2013 John Macgregor (current) |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Trade paperback, e-book, print-on-demand paperback |
| Pages | 273 |
| Awards | Biennial Adelaide Festival Award for Literature (manuscript) (1986); shortlisted Age Book of the Year (1987) |
| ISBN | 0-949268-99-2 (original, Wakefield Press) |
Propinquity is a 1986 novel by Australian author/journalist John Macgregor. The manuscript won the Adelaide Festival Biennial Award for Literature;[1] the novel was short-listed for The Age Book of the Year.[2] Its author was compared by critics with PG Wodehouse, Don DeLillo, Julian Barnes, Umberto Eco, and Australian Nobellist Patrick White. Despite its critical success, the collapse of the original publisher meant that Propinquity did not reach a wide audience, although in 2013 it was released on Amazon as a Kindle e-book and a CreateSpace print-on-demand paperback.
Propinquity describes a group of Oxford medical undergraduates trying 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.
- ^ Macgregor, John (John Murray), 1951-. Propinquity (1977). "John Macgregor manuscript collection". Retrieved 28 April 2013.
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