Title: The king's diamond
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 ...
Subjects: Fiction, Courts and courtiers, History, Jewelers, Court and courtiers, England, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Great Britain, England
Time periods: Henry VIII, 1509-1547