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His revolution would shatter the earth's illusions, shock men and women with new visions, find true Love and Liberty - and take everyone with him.

Ann Wroe's book takes the life of one of England's greatest poets and turns it inside out, bringing us the life of the poet rather than the man.

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The story of Perkin Warbeck is one of the most compelling mysteries of English history. Officially, however, he was proclaimed to be Perkin Warbeck, the son of a Flemish boatman. In doing so she delves into the secret corners of European history and produces a portrait of the late fifteenth century that is breathtaking in its detail.

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARDS 2019**

A life of St Francis in verse


Throughout her career Ann Wroe has constantly confounded expectations, following her own unique path.

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He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men.

In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him.

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Ann Wroe recounts the lives of all our Pirates. Here is the glittering medieval tyrant, devoted to gambling and getting round the law; the early-Christian intellectual, seeking enlightenment both from the Jews and from Jesus; the beleaguered Victorian administrator, struggling to impose order on unruly natives at the fringes of the Empire.

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Shes a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches. Hilary Mantel

A Spectator Book of the Year

Goethe claimed to know what light was.

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A compelling look at a strange chapter in British history describes the efforts of Perkin Warbeck, the son of a Flanders boatman, to persuade some of the most powerful monarchs of the era that he was the rightful king of England and the repercussions of his masquerade, until his ultimate capture and