{"product_id":"the-pretender-by-jo-harkin-9781526678348","title":"The Pretender","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/em\u003e meets \u003cem\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/em\u003e in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined, and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge, and ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A vivid, transporting feat of imagination’\u003c\/strong\u003e – Maggie Shipstead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Witty, poignant, wildly engaging, and with a huge heart - I loved it’\u003c\/strong\u003e – Sarah Waters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Brilliantly buoyant, clever, funny, original, vivid, witty’\u003c\/strong\u003e – Joanna Quinn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Pretender\u003c\/em\u003e has everything: history richly drawn, amazing characterisation, humour, wit, vigour and bravery’\u003c\/strong\u003e – Emma Stonex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘I found myself laughing out loud at the sheer brilliance of Harkin’s sentences’\u003c\/strong\u003e – Victoria MacKenzie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e________________________________________\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKill the pretender. Do not let it be known that there was a pretender to kill.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe year is 1480 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve-year-old John Collan, living in a remote village with his widowed father, these matters seem far away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut history has other plans for John.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStolen from his family, exiled – first to Oxford, then to Burgundy, and then Ireland – and apprenticed to a series of unscrupulous political operators, he finds himself groomed for power; not as John Collan, but as Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick – and rightful heir to the throne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFar from home at the Irish court, preparing for a war that will see him become king or die trying, John has just his wits – and the slippery counsel of his host’s daughter, the unconventional Joan – to navigate the choppy waters ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeething with revenge and machination, sparkling with wit and humanity, and roaring with adventure and bravado, \u003cem\u003eThe Pretender\u003c\/em\u003e is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Wickedly funny… A work of genius, a wellspring of laughter and sorrow, a feat of time travel, and a feast of language’\u003c\/strong\u003e – Karen Russell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Raw, beautiful and true ... I loved it’\u003c\/strong\u003e – Leah Redmond Chang\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘An absolute thumper … Funny and filthy and brave and brilliant’\u003c\/strong\u003e – Marianne Levy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Superb, exhilarating and heartbreaking’\u003c\/strong\u003e – Linda Porter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘I couldn't put it down’\u003c\/strong\u003e – Tracy Borman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600136388844,"sku":"9781526678348","price":18.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/21c4b7ed9eca8e5b985dcac14104e942.jpg?v=1778037113","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-pretender-by-jo-harkin-9781526678348","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}