Book description
Perkin Warbeck is an ordinary young man in fifteenth-century Tournai.
The son of a port official, he loves nothing more than swimming, singing
and fishing with his father. But Perkin has a secret. His real name is
Richard, and he is the rightful Prince of England.
Thought to have been murdered with his brother, Edward, in the Tower of
London, he was covertly taken to the continent and placed with an
adoptive family under an assumed identity. But when his enemies seek him
out he must flee, and embarks on a new life of derring-do, sailing the
high seas with the era’s greatest adventurers. But Richard cannot avoid
his fate forever. He knows he must return to England, to assume the
throne that is his birthright. But what for Richard is a homecoming, for
the new king, Henry Tudor, is nothing less than an invasion, and
‘Perkin’ slowly comes to learn that the price of his goal is the blood
of innocent men.
Based on painstaking research, and peopled by some of the most
extraordinary characters of an extraordinary period, Perkin’s tale is a
vivid, authentic, and hugely entertaining historical adventure.
'An intelligent and exciting new voice in historical fiction'
Lancashire Evening Post
Terence Morgan has worked as a journalist and an educational writer.
The Shadow Prince
is his second novel.
