Jo Harkin: The Pretender, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Pretender
Buch
- Verlag:
- Bloomsbury UK, 04/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781526678355
- Artikelnummer:
- 11949372
- Umfang:
- 449 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 561 g
- Maße:
- 234 x 153 mm
- Stärke:
- 38 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 24.4.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambitionKill the pretender. Do not let it be known that there was a pretender to kill.
The year is 1480 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve-year-old John Collan, living in a remote village with his widowed father, these matters seem far away.
But history has other plans for John.
Stolen from his family, exiled - first to Oxford, then to Burgundy, and then Ireland - and apprenticed to a series of unscrupulous political operators, he finds himself groomed for power; not as John Collan, but as Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick - and rightful heir to the throne.
Far from home at the Irish court, preparing for a war that will see him become king or die trying, John has just his wits - and the slippery counsel of his host's daughter, the unconventional Joan - to navigate the choppy waters ahead.
Seething with revenge and machination, sparkling with wit and humanity, and roaring with adventure and bravado, The Pretender is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens.

Jo Harkin
The Pretender
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