Of Blood Descended

Of Blood Descended
Steven Veerapen
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 384pg
5 May 2022 UK
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9781846976131
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' Beautifully written . . . a unique tale told in a unique voice' - S. G. MacleanSummer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII' s court welcomes the Imperial emperor, Charles V. Anthony Blanke, the son of the king' s late ' black trumpet' , John Blanke, is called to Hampton Court by his former employer, Cardinal Wolsey. The cardinal is preparing a gift for King Henry: a masque of King Arthur and the Black Knight. Anthony is to take centre stage. The festive mood, however, quickly sours. Wolsey' s historian, charged with proving the king' s descent from King Arthur, is found murdered, his body posed in a gruesome tableau. A reluctant Anthony is charged with investigating the affair. His mission takes him on the path trod by the historian, through ancient monastic libraries and the back streets of London. On a journey that takes him from Hampton Court to Windsor and Winchester, and which sees him lock horns with secretive monks, historian Polydore Vergil, and a new face at court, Anne Boleyn, he must discover the murderer, secure the great masque, and avoid King Henry' s wrath.
' This is a wonderfully evocative portrait of the earlier Tudor world, beautifully written with at times startlingly refreshing use of language and imagery. A unique tale told in a unique voice' -- S. G. Maclean ' Steven Veerapen is a new name on the fiction scene, but one of whom we' ll surely be hearing much, much more' -- Sarah Gristwood
Steven Veerapen was born in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and a Mauritian father and raised in Paisley. Pursuing an interest in the sixteenth century, he was awarded a first-class Honours degree in English, focussing his dissertation on representations of Henry VIII' s six wives.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781846976131
Published: 5 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Birlinn
Publisher: Birlinn General
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 384

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