Author Gerry Kennedy produced the BBC Radio 4 documentary on The Voynich Manuscript in 2001 and with co-author Rob Churchill acted as consultant on the BBC TV documentary 'The Voynich Mystery' in 2002 which will be repeated on publication. Reader participation in deciphering the manuscript
The authors are producers and film-makers. Gerry Kennedy is a relative of Voynich and has been researching the manuscript for many years and has amassed a unique archive of material.
This brilliant, page-turning story makes 'The Da Vinci Code' seem like a slightly lame round of Hangman... Kennedy and Churchill's style is certainly very accessible... this will surely give the Voynich Manuscript an audience beyond cryptologists and internet conspiracy theorists, and that is an important achievement. - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY - Scarlett ThomasThis book is not, as one might have feared, the bearer of another wacky hypothesis; rather it is a fair-minded, lucid and enjoyably written guide to the various theories. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - Blair WordenGerry Kennedy and Rob Churchull conduct the reader with straight faces and fair minds, and... an admirable amount of relevant detail, and a more admirable absense of the ''My Quest'' local colour which has disfigured literary investigations since Corvo. - TIME LITERARY SUPPLEMENTThere's nothing like a good mystery, and here's one that's as impenetrable now as it was when the world first encountered it nearly a hundred years ago... Their [Kennedy & Churchill] exhaustive research... helps readers to make their own guesses.**** - WESTERN DAILY PRESSThey [the authors] are fair-minded and inclusive about the ideas of others, and include a final section in which different experts give their ideas... [a] fascinating introduction to the mystery. - THE TIMES OF ACADANIA (US)A facinating paper chase across time an
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