The Pretender - Jo Harkin

**Selected as a book of summer 2025 by the Guardian, Daily Mail, Sunday Times and i paper**Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition‘An absolute delight … Funny, moving, filthy and original … A frontrunner for historical fiction book of the year’ The Times‘A bold and brilliant comedy of royal intrigue’ Guardian, Book of the day‘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‘Funny and devastating. I''m having a fantastic time reading it’ Yael van der Wouden________________________________________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 t
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