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The year is 1401. England is at a major turning point in its turbulent history. A young man, Adam Wolvercot, is drawn into a political conspiracy that could cost him not only his life, but also the lives of those he loves. As he is hunted across medieval England, and the trap closes in on him, who, if anyone, dare he trust?
This thriller is based on true events that took place during the reign of Henry IV and is the first of a trilogy. CharactersPlacesHistorical notesRead a SampleBuy |
How it all started...The idea for the book came one day when I was on holiday in France and found myself browsing through 'The Book of Books' by Melvyn Bragg. In it I came across this passage that caught my attention and started the creative juices flowing. From here sprang the beginnings of the novel, but it took almost two years to bring it to fruition.
Here is the quote: The medieval Oxford scholars, long-woollen gowned, staff in hand, took to the mud tracks of medieval England with their concealed manuscript Bibles in English. They travelled secretly through unculled forests and barely inhabited wildlands, hiding in safe houses, forever fugitive. They were a guerrilla movement and they were called Lollards. Their mission was to give people access to the Word of God in English. The authorities would not endure it… His (Wyclif’s) Bibles were outlawed. Anyone caught with a copy was to be tortured and killed. Yet the Lollards persisted, for more than a century they roved the land and passed on the Word. |