The Emerald Tablet

by Peter Salmon

At an archeological dig on the Sinai Peninsula, an obscure piece of parchment kicks off a frantic search for the fabled Emerald Tablet. Andrew Coulter leads a team of internationally renowned experts in Egyptian history and archeology in a desperate search for ancient clues to the Tablet’s location.Unbeknownst to Coulter's team, a ruthless international organization, the League, also hunts for the Tablet, and tracks Coulter's team. The League has searched for the Tablet and the power it possesses since the beginning of the middles ages, and will kill anyone who gets in their way or touches the Tablet to make that power their own.Hunted by the feared mukhabarat, the Egyptian secret police, and the violent proxies of the League, Coulter's team scours ancient texts and history as they race to find clues that will lead them to the Emerald Tablet. Bold, decisive action is the only way to stay one step ahead of the League and mukhabarat, but will that be enough?Follow Andrew Coulter on this provocative, controversial adventure that challenges traditional ideas, thought and teaching, and discover for yourself what it takes to turn base materials into gold!About the Emerald TabletThe Emerald Tablet contains knowledge handed down to humans from the Egyptian god, Thoth, over six thousand years ago. According to ancient alchemists and legend, the Emerald Tablet holds the secret of the primordial substance of the Universe, the power to transmute base materials into gold, and much more!What if such knowledge, such power, were found today? How would that knowledge, made public, change Man's Destiny, challenge traditional knowledge taught across continents, and move the balance of power in the world? What wouldn't those in power do to stop that knowledge from becoming accessible to everyone in the world? Who could stop powerful people from squelching knowledge that is every human's birthright?

279 pages, Kindle Edition

Expected publication February 3, 2031

About the author

Peter Salmon is an Australian writer living in the UK. His biography of Jacques Derrida, An Event Perhaps, was published 2020.

He is a regular contributor to the New Humanist, and has been published in the Sydney Review of Books, the Guardian, the Tablet, Cordite and Versopolis.

His first novel, The Coffee Story (Sceptre, 2011), was a New Statesman Book of the Year.

He has written frequently for Australian TV and radio and for broadsheets including the Guardian and the Sydney Review of Books.

The Blue News, his satirical column about books and publishing, was subsequently collected and published by Melbourne University Press as Uncorrected Proof (2005).

He has received Writer’s Awards from the Arts Council of England and the Arts Council of Victoria, Australia.

Formerly Centre Director of the John Osborne/The Hurst Arvon Centre (2006-2012), he also teaches creative writing, most recently at Pembroke College, Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores University.