The Court of the Midnight King

“Superb fusion of dazzling alternative history and smouldering romance." - Justina Robson, author of Natural History.

RICHARD III - the most famous and eternally fascinating king of all time. To this day, he excites furious controversy. With the real-life discovery of his remains buried in Leicester, UK, interest in King Richard III is now at fever pitch. Was he Shakespeare's charismatic, witty, shadowy villain, or a man of his time whose character was redeemed by later scholars? Or is the truth more complicated? King Richard was a man who, good or evil, can never be forgotten.

In THE COURT OF THE MIDNIGHT KING, meet Richard III as you’ve never seen him before.

Freda Warrington’s lushly written alternative version of his story is replete with magic and a rich sense of period. This is not one for dry historians, but for lovers of fantasy, history and romance with a thirst for magical possibilities and a love of vividly portrayed characters.

To Lady Katherine, Richard of Gloucester is a dark angel. To his faithful knight Raphael, he is a creature of light. To others, a complex and seductive mystery. In a world slightly askew from ours, amid the furious strife of the Wars of the Roses, a chance meeting binds Kate and Richard together, while Raphael becomes haunted by nightmare visions of the future…

Here is a novel that sets out to portray, not an historically accurate story (impossible), but rather a dream journey into the psyche in order to examine why Richard remains so captivating to millions. “The Court of the Midnight King is a story about trying to know the unknowable. We never can. But we never stop trying.”

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