Handsome, naked and murdered in a barn on the edge of the fens. A fate that poses many questions.But who wants them asked, let alone answered?Certainly not the local lord anxious to keep his dubious land dealings out of the public eye. Luckily, he has a tame constable and a needy cousin who can be persuaded to dispose of the body decently but without reporting it. Unfortunately, that’s a hanging offence were it to be discovered.There it might have ended if the body ...

Die gloriously or be forgotten forever, that was the dilemma facing John Thurloe, Cromwell’s Secretary of State and spymaster.Make a defiant speech on the scaffold or save your life by helping a Restoration propagandist distort the history of the English Civil War and your role in it?Thurloe opted for survival while secretly penning a counterblast to Lord Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. His rollicking account reveals how he exploited the birt...

This historical novel is a fictionalised account of the influence of Sir John Harington during the last part of Queen Elizabeth I's reign. He was a courtier, wit, inventor, reluctant soldier and favourite Godson of the Queen who, in his day, was better known for his writings than Shakespeare.The novel takes the form of an autobiography. From his 400 year old grave, Sir John Harington looks back at his impetuous relationships with his wife; his Queen and Godmother; his mother-in-law;...

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