Title: The licence of war
Description: Features Laurence Beaumont who is the seductive, sardonic protagonist introduced in 'The best of men'. This novel blends history and fiction in a seventeenth century alive with intrigue, violence and wit, from the court of King Charles I at Oxford where poisonous rivalries fester, to stately country estates and the underworld of thieves and whores.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, Great britain, fiction, Man-woman relationships, Conspiracies
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: Charles I, 1625-1649