{"product_id":"the-pretender-by-jo-harkin-9781526678355","title":"The Pretender","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/i\u003e in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A vivid, transporting feat of imagination’\u003c\/b\u003e - Maggie Shipstead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Witty, poignant, wildly engaging, and with a huge heart - I loved it’\u003c\/b\u003e - Sarah Waters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Brilliantly buoyant, clever, funny, original, vivid, witty’\u003c\/b\u003e - Joanna Quinn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eThe Pretender\u003c\/i\u003e has everything: history richly drawn, amazing characterisation, humour, wit, vigour and bravery’\u003c\/b\u003e - Emma Stonex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I found myself laughing out loud at the sheer brilliance of Harkin’s sentences’\u003c\/b\u003e - Victoria MacKenzie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKill the pretender. Do not let it be known that there was a pretender to kill.\u003c\/i\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\u003cb\u003eSeething with revenge and machination, sparkling with wit and humanity, and roaring with adventure and bravado, \u003ci\u003eThe Pretender\u003c\/i\u003e is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Wickedly funny… A work of genius, a wellspring of laughter and sorrow, a feat of time travel, and a feast of language'\u003c\/b\u003e - Karen Russell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Raw, beautiful and true ... I loved it’\u003c\/b\u003e - Leah Redmond Chang\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘An absolute thumper … Funny and filthy and brave and brilliant’\u003c\/b\u003e - Marianne Levy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Superb, exhilarating and heartbreaking’\u003c\/b\u003e - Linda Porter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I couldn't put it down’\u003c\/b\u003e - Tracy Borman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083006886124,"sku":"9781526678355","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15291063482731.jpg?v=1765278857","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-pretender-by-jo-harkin-9781526678355","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}