A charming mini edition of a well-known classic.

Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory.

In a blend of historical fact and imagination, the author brings to life this most colourful of kings, written from his point of view, but injecting irreverent comments from Will Somers - Henry VIII's confidant and jester.

Katherine comes to the court of Edward III at the age of fifteen, and she turns the head of the King's favourite son John of Gaunt. But he is married, and she is soon to be betrothed. A few years later their paths cross again and this time their passion for each other cannot be denied or suppressed.

Justin de Quincy's, knight in the service of Queen Eleanor, duty is clear to restrain his brother Prince John in his relentless quest for the throne, and his dangerous pacts with the French king. But Justin is ensnared in the murder of an innocent pedlar's daughter in a churchyard in Cripplegate until he comes to feel the force of the dead girl.

An historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and France. It focuses on King John of England, younger brother to the brilliant Richard Lionheart, Joanna, his illegitimate but recognised daughter and Llewellyn Ab Iowerth, and Prince of Gwynedd, a bitter opponent of English ways.