The king's diamond
By: Will Whitaker
Edition: HarperPress pbk. ed.
Publisher: HarperPress
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780007410309
Subjects: Fiction; Courts and courtiers; History; Jewelers; Court and courtiers
Description: Europe, 1527. War is raging across the Continent and only England remains aloof from the struggle that is to come. King Henry VIII presides over a glamorous court but thinks only of the woman he loves. Richard Dansey, a young and ambitious jewel merchant, is determined to pursue gems irresistible enough to help the King's courtship of Anne Boleyn. Obsessed with one diamond, but distracted by love, Richard soon finds himself at the centre of the murderous politics of Renaissance Europe, where he must fight for life itself ...
Notes: Originally published: 2011.