Picknett biography

Picknett and Prince counter-argue that the relic predating Leonardo "was not the same one as today's. Picknett and Prince perform most of the research for their books themselves, but also have collaborated with others. The pair appear on a London bus as the protagonists are travelling to the Temple Church, off Fleet Street in central London.

References [ edit ]. Retrieved 19 August Retrieved 29 December Archived from the original on 24 May The stargate conspiracy. Warner Books. ISBN External links [ edit ]. Shroud of Turin. When Stephen and Bob suggested they collaborate with Lynn and Clive on a book, they jumped at the chance - and so the foursome's three-book career began with Double Standards: The Rudolf Hess Cover-up , followed by War of the Windsors and Friendly Fire.

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Picknett biography

Writer and lecturer Lynn Picknett explores the worlds of the controversial, the paranormal, and the clandestine in her works. Ghosts, conspiracy theories, UFOs, secret societies, and religious figures abound in her books as she seeks answers and offers theories on mysteries that have confounded readers and investigators for decades, some for centuries.

In Flights of Fancy? Topics include ESP, fairies, levitation, auras, spontaneous human combustion , seeing the future, and more. Picknett provides detailed coverage and in-depth reporting of each incident as well as information on connections or similarities to other events. The book includes coverage of both documented fakes and phenomena that still defy explanation.

Mary L. Holshouser, writing in Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide, observed that the book "leave[s] the reader with much to think about. Picknett and collaborator Clive Prince offer a controversial solution to a long-standing religious mystery in Turin Shroud: In Whose Image? The Truth behind the Centuries-long Conspiracy of Silence. Thought by some to be the burial shroud or winding sheet of Jesus Christ, the Shroud of Turin has been the subject of fierce debate for centuries.

For those who believe it bears the image of the crucified Christ, it is a holy relic. For those who reject its holy origins, it is an elaborate, if mysterious, forgery. Carbon dating has placed the Shroud's origins in the late Middle Ages , well beyond the time of Christ. Critics have suggested that the Shroud's image is a painting or a rubbing, but the "Shroud's image is very faint, superficial it is known that the image on the Turin Shroud resides only on the peaks of the fibers and lacks artists' pigments and brush strokes," commented Daniel C.

Scavone on Shroud.