The Conscience of the KingIt is 1612. Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to King James I, is dying. Now the threat from the Catholics has decayed, the Puritan majority are gaining an increasing stranglehold over English society. Parliament is starting to flex its muscles against the King whose court drifts shamelessly towards decadence and corruption. And the great period of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama has ended with the abrupt retreat from public life of William Shakespeare.

Just another hopeless

The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire

Eddie and his team are the only ones who believe her

long live Emperor Hadrian

as a bandsman in the Royal Marines and bound for the Falklands

creator of the Iron Throne

The past never stays buried

clever plotting and a Bond-esque lead character who drives the narrative forward at every turn

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odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Alsace

His mother was a subject of gossip even before she eloped with a vampire

The high-tech luxury Camden flat is managed by a meticulous Home Assistant