1. The Pretender
The Pretender The Times Top Ten bestseller
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Family Sharing
Ja
Gesprochen von
John HollingworthSpieldauer
14 Stunden und 38 Minuten
Abo-Fähigkeit
Nein
Erscheinungsdatum
24.04.2025
Hörtyp
Lesung
Fassung
ungekürzt
Medium
MP3
Anzahl Dateien
73
Verlag
Bloomsbury USASprache
Englisch
EAN
9781526678324
Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition
'A vivid, transporting feat of imagination' Maggie Shipstead
'Witty, poignant, wildly engaging, and with a huge heart - I loved it' Sarah Waters
'Brilliantly buoyant, clever, funny, original, vivid, witty' Joanna Quinn
'The Pretender has everything: history richly drawn, amazing characterisation, humour, wit, vigour and bravery' Emma Stonex
'I found myself laughing out loud at the sheer brilliance of Harkin's sentences' Victoria MacKenzie
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Kill the pretender. Do not let it be known that there was a pretender to kill.
The year is 1483 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.
'Wickedly funny… A work of genius, a wellspring of laughter and sorrow, a feat of time travel, and a feast of language' Karen Russell
'Raw, beautiful and true ... I loved it' Leah Redmond Chang
'An absolute thumper … Funny and filthy and brave and brilliant' Marianne Levy
'Superb, exhilarating and heartbreaking' Linda Porter
'I couldn't put it down' Tracy Borman
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