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The Winding Stair, Paperback / softback Book

The Winding Stair Paperback / softback

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WINNER OF THE 2023 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDSNEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARSUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEKPower is shifting.

Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King.

Everywhere, there is opportunity to ascend. But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new King?

Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the royal court? Or his hated rival the attorney Edward Coke, already acclaimed as the greatest lawyer of his generation?The Winding Stair tells the gripping story of these two founders of our modern world and their battle for power, pre-eminence – and the hand of the most eligible woman in the realm.

Combining humour, wit and imagination with deep research, this novel is a dazzling synthesis of history and fiction that takes the genre to new places.

It is an epic tale of jealousy and intrigue in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, which, in its lowest moments, holds a darkened mirror to our own contemporary politics.

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  • Pages:496 pages
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  • ISBN:9781785908606

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:496 pages
  • Publisher:Biteback Publishing
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  • ISBN:9781785908606