The Pretender

A sweeping historical novel in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O’Farrell set during the time of the Tudors’ ascent, The Pretender is a rollicking portrait of British monarchy and life within the court. In 1480 John Collan’s greatest anxiety is how to circumvent the village’s devil goat on the way to collect water. But the arrival of a well-dressed stranger from London upends his life John is not John Collan, not the son of Will Collan, but the son of the long-deceased Duke of Clarence, hid...