| International Standard Book Number |
9780593803318 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593803301 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593803302 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Harkin, Jo, author.
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| Title Statement |
The pretender / Jo Harkin.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Edition Statement |
First hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
475 pages : genealogical tables ; 25 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In 1480 John Collan's greatest anxiety is how to circumvent the village's devil goat on his way to collect water. But the arrival of a well-dressed stranger from London upends his life forever: John is not John Collan, not the son of Will Collan but the son of the long-deceased Duke of Clarence, and has been hidden in the countryside after a brotherly rift over the crown -- and because Richard III has a habit of disappearing his nephews. Removed from his humble origins, sent to Oxford to be educated in a manner befitting the throne's rightful heir, John is put into play by his masters, learning the rules of etiquette in Burgundy and the machinations of the court in Ireland, where he encounters the intractable Joan, the delightfully strong-willed and manipulative daughter of his Irish patrons, a girl imbued with both extraordinary political savvy and occasional murderous tendencies. Joan has two paths available her -- marry or become a nun. Lambert's choices are similarly stark: he will either become king or die in battle. Together they form an alliance that will change the fate of the English monarchy"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Inspired by a footnote to history--the true story of the little-known Simnel, who was a figurehead of the 1487 Yorkist rebellion and ended up working as a spy in the court of King Henry VII. The Pretender is ... [a] portrait of British monarchy and life within the court, with a cast of ... heroes and villains drawn from fifteenth-century England"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Simnel, Lambert Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Man-woman relationships Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Inheritance and succession Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Pretenders to the throne Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Aristocracy (Political science) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Great Britain Kings and rulers Succession Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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