Showing posts with label new release. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new release. Show all posts

Sunday, August 2, 2026

NEW RELEASE: BOX SET: THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES VI-X (Bankrupting the Third World / Underground Bases / Vaccine Science Revisited / Unit 731 / Mysterious Greenland)

 

The Underground Knowledge Series VI–X plunges readers deeper into the shadows of global power, exposing the hidden forces shaping society in ways most people never imagine. In this controversial and explosive box set, bestselling authors James and Lance Morcan continue their relentless investigation into the world’s most secretive institutions, controversial subjects, and suppressed truths.

BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt reveals how developing nations are systematically crippled by debt, corruption, and predatory global financial systems. The Morcans trace the mechanisms that keep billions in poverty, exposing the geopolitical strategies and economic traps that ensure the rich get richer while vulnerable nations remain perpetually exploited.

UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet uncovers the secretive world beneath our feet—vast subterranean complexes, classified military installations, and rumored deep‑earth facilities hidden from public view. This volume explores leaked documents, eyewitness accounts, and decades of speculation surrounding covert underground infrastructure and the powerful institutions that benefit from its secrecy.

VACCINE SCIENCE REVISITED: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed? tackles one of the most contentious subjects of the modern era. Without taking simplistic positions, the authors examine scientific studies, historical controversies, and conflicting expert opinions to illuminate the complex landscape of vaccine research. It’s a fearless, thought‑provoking investigation into a topic often clouded by emotion, politics, and misinformation.

UNIT 731: The Japanese Auschwitz confronts one of history’s darkest chapters. Morcan and Morcan detail the atrocities committed by Imperial Japan’s covert biological warfare division—an operation responsible for horrific human experimentation and mass suffering. Presented with sensitivity and historical rigor, this volume exposes how much of Unit 731’s legacy remains shrouded in secrecy even today.

MYSTERIOUS GREENLAND: Frontier of the Breakaway Civilization ventures into the icy unknown, exploring the world’s least understood landmass. From classified military activity to ancient legends and unexplained anomalies, the authors investigate why Greenland has long fascinated governments, explorers, and conspiracy theorists alike. This is a journey into a place where myth and geopolitics collide.

Together, these five volumes form a powerful, unsettling, and endlessly fascinating exploration of hidden truths the Morcans are renowned for. The Underground Knowledge Series VI–X is essential reading for anyone who suspects the world is far stranger—and far less transparent—than we are led to believe.

 BUY LINKS

Kindle link:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCJK2V7Q

Goodreads Link:

This book is available to read on #KindleUnlimited.

Also available as an audiobook.

James Morcan

New Zealand–born actor, writer, and producer James Morcan is the co‑author of numerous bestselling novels and nonfiction works, many written with his father, Lance Morcan. His books span historical adventure, international thrillers, and investigative nonfiction, and have been translated into eight languages. Morcan is also a screenwriter and lead actor in several international film productions, including the post‑apocalyptic feature After Armageddon. Through Morcan Motion Pictures, he is developing adaptations of Silent Fear and The Underground Knowledge Series. Beyond publishing and film, he hosts the Underground Knowledge podcast and founded one of Goodreads’ most active global discussion groups.

 

 Lance Morcan

New Zealand novelist, screenwriter, and former journalist Lance Morcan is the author of more than 35 fiction and nonfiction titles, many co‑written with his son, James Morcan, and published through Sterling Gate Books. Their collaborations span historical adventure, international thrillers, and investigative nonfiction, including the bestselling White Spirit, Into the Americas, and The Underground Knowledge Series. Lance’s solo work includes the sweeping historical epic New Zealand: A Novel, a project five decades in the making. Several Morcan titles have been long‑running Amazon bestsellers, and their production company, Morcan Motion Pictures, is developing film adaptations of Silent Fear, Into the Americas, and White Spirit.

  Connect with the Authors

For inquiries, media requests, or additional information about James and Lance Morcan’s work, please contact their publisher:

 Sterling Gate Books Ltd.
New Zealand Phone: +64 7 572 5526
Mobile: +64 27 576 5037
Email: sterlinggatebooks@gmail.com

Explore more of their books and film projects

 


 

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Voices Rising for Earth’s Last Hope by Mary L. Schmidt

 


Today I’m pleased to feature Mary L. Schmidt’s newest release, Earth’s Last Hope. Instead of a traditional blurb, here’s a look at what early readers are saying about this gripping, high‑stakes sci‑fi thriller.

What people are writing about Earth’s Last Hope

Mary L. Schmidt is a great storyteller who expertly modulates pacing and tension, opening the story with frantic security briefings and desperation accompanying the evacuations. Then the story shifts to the experience of settling into life in the bunker, characterized by medical emergencies, learning, and hydroponic farming. The tension accelerates through every page with the way the author delivers the sense of uncertainty that overwhelms the characters and the revelation of an alien intervention. Earth’s Last Hope presents a finely drawn setting, like the devastated landscapes of Denver and the steel-walled bunkers. Characterization is expertly achieved through family dynamics that are multi-generational. This is a novel about leadership in times of existential crisis, crafted in stellar prose and brimming with action and tension.

In Mary L Schmidt’s Earth's Last Hope, after seismic activity beneath Yellowstone begins accelerating beyond every existing scientific prediction, President Joyce Zimmerman orders General James Tilson to relocate his family into a classified bunker system beneath Colorado while millions of Americans attempt to escape the approaching eruption. Inside the underground shelters, doctors, engineers, military officials, scientists, children, and surviving families attempt to build a functioning society as communication with the surface grows increasingly uncertain. Dr. Theodore Grey continues searching for a method capable of stopping the caldera before Earth enters a volcanic winter expected to last for years. However, each failed attempt pushes humanity closer toward permanent collapse. As Tilson oversees security operations connected to hidden facilities beneath Denver, classified information tied to the Roswell incident begins to reshape everything the government understands about survival, technology, and the planet's future.

 


 BUY LINK

https://mybook.to/ELH26


About the Author



Mary L. Schmidt is a retired registered nurse; a member of the Catholic Church and has taught kindergarten Catechism; she has worked in various capacities for The American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, Cub, and Boy Scouts, (son, Gene, is an Eagle Scout), and sponsored trips for high school music children.

Books have always been her thing. It seemed like every time she turned around; a new library card was needed due to the current one being stamped completed. Diving into an enjoyable book made any day perfect and you would be surprised at the number of books she has read repeatedly. She drew paper dolls and clothes for them, with watercolor as her medium when painting scenes, especially flowers. She continued with art in high school exploring a wide variety of arts and loved it! Her creative side loves to be an amateur "shutterbug" and she has an online art gallery. In college, she went into the sciences of all things and received a bachelor’s degree in the Science of Nursing. Her nursing career was extraordinarily successful, and she hung up her nursing hat in December 2012.

This is book 64 for her with others in various stages of production, and she is included in four anthologies.

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 If you enjoy discovering new stories, you may also like The AnaRose Chronicles—a trilogy of award‑winning adventure novellas. https://books2read.com/u/4jzKAY

Monday, June 8, 2026

Book Spotlight: The Queen’s Sister by Carol McGrath

 


A mother, a wife, a woman of substance...

 At nineteen, Elizabeth Seymour is already a mother, has been recently widowed, and seen her Queen, Anne Boleyn, lose her life. Against the wishes of her father, she heads North, away from Wulf Hall and the court in London to Yorkshire, determined to establish a new beginning as a landowner and business woman. As her family in Wiltshire curry favour with King Henry, aided by Thomas Cromwell, Elizabeth makes Kexby Manor her home, finding loyalty among her people there.

Soon, news comes to Elizabeth of the King's desires for her sister, Jane and while her brother, Edward, encourages her own betrothal to Gregory Cromwell, son of Thomas. It is a happy second marriage for Elizabeth, but it brings unwanted involvement in the dark plots and secrecy of the court, while in the wider country, changes in religious practice threaten to alter the traditions and values of all she has known...

THE QUEEN'S SISTER vividly imagines the story of the woman possibly portrayed in Hans Holbein's beautiful painting 'Portrait of a Lady,' and is a colourful, meticulously researched novel of Tudor life behind the scenes.

What readers say about Carol McGrath's novels:

'Another beautifully crafted, well-researched work of historical fiction from Carol McGrath'

'Brimming with intrigue, tension and adventure, The Lost Queen is a powerful Medieval tale full of atmosphere, danger and emotion and transports the reader to another world'


 Buy Links:

 Universal Ebook Link: https://books2read.com/u/bzExAq

 Universal Paperback Link: https://geni.us/queenssister

Following a first degree in English and History at QUB, Carol McGrath completed an MA in Creative Writing from The Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast, followed by an MPhil in English from University of London. She is published by Headline.

The Handfasted Wife, first in a trilogy about the royal women of 1066 was shortlisted for the RoNAs in 2014. The Swan-Daughter and The Betrothed Sister complete this highly acclaimed trilogy. Mistress Cromwell, a best-selling historical novel about Elizabeth Cromwell, wife of Henry VIII’s statesman, Thomas Cromwell, was republished by Headline in 2020. The Silken Rose, first in a Medieval She-Wolf Queens Trilogy, featuring Ailenor of Provence, saw publication in April 2020. This was followed by The Damask Rose. The Stone Rose was published April 2022. The Stolen Crown 2023 and July 2024 The Lost Queen about Berengaria of Navarre and The Third Crusade. The Queen’s Sister, sequel to Mistress Cromwell sees publication in June 2026.

Carol writes historical non-fiction as well as fiction. Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England was published in February 2022 by Pen & Sword. She speaks at Conferences and gives interviews.

Find Carol on her website: www.carolcmcgrath.co.uk.

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Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Carol-McGrath/author/B00D0K5YI0

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6942793.Carol_McGrath



If you enjoy discovering new stories, you may also like The AnaRose Chronicles—a trilogy of award‑winning adventure novellas. https://books2read.com/u/4jzKAY

Thursday, March 12, 2026

#1 New Release: Unit 731: The Japanese Auschwitz by James & Lance Morcan - Free on Kindle March 14, 2026 (PST).


 Currently the #1 New Release in Amazon’s Biological & Chemical Warfare History category.

Free on Kindle March 14, 2026 (PST).

Available in audio courtesy of Amazon’s Audible Audiobooks initiative. Paperback edition coming soon.

 Synopsis:

In the aftermath of World War Two, and indeed all wars before and since, few names evoke as much horror as Unit 731, a Japanese death camp located in Northeast China.

Unit 731: The Japanese Auschwitz exposes one of the darkest and least acknowledged chapters of the 20th century—a secret biological warfare program whose atrocities rival those of Nazi Germany’s most infamous death camps.

In this meticulously researched volume, Book 9 in The Underground Knowledge Series, the veil is lifted on the origins, operations, and enduring legacy of Unit 731, the covert Japanese military complex where science, ambition, and cruelty fused into industrialized murder.

Purchase Link

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRJ8LR8P

Snippet

Excerpt from the Introduction of our new release book, Unit 731: The Japanese Auschwitz – Book 9 in The Underground Knowledge Series – by James & Lance Morcan

…the name Unit 731 became synonymous with Auschwitz, that most infamous Nazi concentration camp. Hence, this book’s subtitle: The Japanese Auschwitz.

Although less widely reported than Mengele’s medical research at Auschwitz, many historians have compared the hideous medical experiments at Unit 731 to those conducted by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Unit 731’s condemned endured unimaginable horrors. These included high-voltage electric shock experiments, cyanide poisoning, frostbite studies, and biological weapons testing involving the forced application of anthrax, heroin, and other drugs; some inmates were injected with bacteria from plague-infected fleas procured from mice; and slow, live dissections of subjects without the use of painkillers were commonplace.

The prisoners were referred to as “monkeys” in scientific papers, but it was common knowledge in Japanese military and political circles at least that the test subjects were in fact human beings.

The end result was tens of thousands of victims died at Unit 731 and its sister sites, keeping in mind the Pingfang complex was not an isolated entity. Similar units proliferated across Asia – all coordinated in accordance with Ishii’s vision of using biological warfare as a national instrument of modern science and medicine.

Other complexes, including Unit 1644 in Nanjing, Unit 9420 in Singapore, Unit 8604 in Guangzhou, and Unit 1855 in Beijing formed a strategic alliance programmed to support Japan logistically, militarily and politically. 

Casualty estimates vary, but our research shows that most historians agree between 10,000 and 12,000 people perished within Unit 731 alone while Japan’s broader biological warfare program killed as many as 250,000 (some say 300,000) people across China.

Unit 731 is a sobering reminder that science and medicine without ethics can evolve into weapons of unforeseen and almost unimaginable destruction.

In the following pages we document what led to the formation of Unit 731, the horrors its inmates endured, and the aftermath following destruction of the unit at war’s end. We also address the uncomfortable truth that most of the perpetrators walked free, their victims forgotten in the proverbial fog and mist of postwar politics.

Be warned: it’s not an easy read.

-James & Lance Morcan

 

James Morcan 

New Zealand–born actor, writer, and producer James Morcan is the co‑author of numerous bestselling novels and nonfiction works, many written with his father, Lance Morcan. His books span historical adventure, international thrillers, and investigative nonfiction, and have been translated into eight languages. Morcan is also a screenwriter and lead actor in several international film productions, including the post‑apocalyptic feature After Armageddon. Through Morcan Motion Pictures, he is developing adaptations of Silent Fear and The Underground Knowledge Series. Beyond publishing and film, he hosts the Underground Knowledge podcast and founded one of Goodreads’ most active global discussion groups.

 

Lance Morcan 

New Zealand novelist, screenwriter, and former journalist Lance Morcan is the author of more than 35 fiction and nonfiction titles, many co‑written with his son, James Morcan, and published through Sterling Gate Books. Their collaborations span historical adventure, international thrillers, and investigative nonfiction, including the bestselling White Spirit, Into the Americas, and The Underground Knowledge Series. Lance’s solo work includes the sweeping historical epic New Zealand: A Novel, a project five decades in the making. Several Morcan titles have been long‑running Amazon bestsellers, and their production company, Morcan Motion Pictures, is developing film adaptations of Silent Fear, Into the Americas, and White Spirit.

 Connect with the Authors

For inquiries, media requests, or additional information about James and Lance Morcan’s work, please contact their publisher:

Sterling Gate Books Ltd.
New Zealand Phone: +64 7 572 5526
Mobile: +64 27 576 5037
Email: sterlinggatebooks@gmail.com

 Explore more of their books and film projects:

https://morcanbooksandfilms.com/category/new-zealand-a-novel/


If you enjoy discovering new stories, you may also like The AnaRose Chronicles—a trilogy of award‑winning adventure novellas. https://books2read.com/u/4jzKAY


Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Book Spotlight: Whispers in the Snow by Heidi Eljarbo


Of course, a young woman in Norway during the late nineteenth century can be a successful amateur sleuth, and goodness knows, Cornelia’s days are always more exciting when she can devote her time to resolving a local mystery.

 Cornelia Gran is a dedicated daughter, friendly and kind; although, she has an exorbitant amount of curiosity. She devours Arthur Conan Doyle’s magazine articles and tries to follow the fictitious Sherlock Holmes’s investigative examples, but her fascination with solving puzzles always gets her into mischief.

 

Each morning, Cornelia reads the newspaper, looking for a conundrum to solve. Searching for clues—and then chronicling her discoveries—thrills her. She certainly finds those activities more entertaining than taking her grandmother’s advice and attending one Christmas ball after another in search of a husband.

 

But chaos and danger turn Cornelia’s quiet days upside down when her attempt to find information about the owner of a nearby abandoned cottage takes her into dangerous territory. As winter winds rattle the windows and swirl snowdrifts against the doors, she faces off with a ghost, gets in trouble with the police, and finds herself staring down danger without thinking of the consequences. In the middle of it all, she meets Simon and is captivated by his charm, good looks, and personality.

 

Meanwhile, a real killer is after her, and he won’t stop until he gets information she doesn’t have! Christmas, with all its cheery festivities, hygge, and family traditions, has never been more threatened. Cornelia must call on all her investigative skills, not only to stop the ruination of her family’s holiday, but also to make certain Simon and his aunt keep what belongs to them. And maybe, just maybe, the amateur sleuth will discover the meaning of true love.

 

Set in a fictitious town in Norway in 1891, this cozy historical mystery is perfect for those who enjoy curious and determined women sleuths, clean and wholesome romance, and the discovery of buried secrets in an abandoned house.

 


Buy Links:

 Universal Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/47a5Lj

 This title is available on #KindleUnlimited.

 


HEIDI ELJARBO grew up in a home full of books, artwork, and happy creativity. She is the author of historical novels filled with courage, hope, mystery, adventure, and sweet romance during challenging times. She’s been named a master of dual timelines and often writes about strong-willed women of past centuries.

After living in Canada, six US states, Japan, Switzerland, and Austria, Heidi now calls Norway home. She lives with her husband on a charming island and enjoys walking in any kind of weather, hugging her grandchildren, and has a passion for art and history.

 

Her family’s chosen retreat is a mountain cabin, where they hike in the summer and ski the vast white terrain during winter.

 

Heidi’s favorites are her family, God's beautiful nature, and the word whimsical.

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Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Heidi-Eljarbo/author/B073D852VG

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245467367-whispers-in-the-snow

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Book Spotlight and Excerpt: The Trial of Arthur Whitty by Tim Walker

                                       

The Trials of Arthur Whitty is Tim Walker's personal homage to one of America's greatest short stories, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber.

This novella is the story of plain old Arthur Whitty, a man whose dreams are never dull and whose vivid imagination and sense of humour carries him through a series of sometimes challenging situations. Arthur has retired to a pair of slippers and jigsaw table in a quiet cul-de-sac in Berkshire, England. He walks his dog, Max, and lets his mind wander to a series of dreams in which he is more daring, skilful and adventurous that his real-life humdrum self. He is an irritant to his orderly wife, Emilia, and has succumbed to irksome cancer treatment following a run-in with skin cancer.

Once a date has been set for corrective surgery, Arthur sets his mind on organising a real-life adventure – a bucket list trip to Machu Picchu in Peru where he finds peace and a calming of the spirit. Arthur’s bullish nature carries him through a series of situations but there is little the retired couple can do about the onset of dementia. But Arthur is well supported by Emilia and their daughter, Holly, as the family rally round to make his declining years as comfortable as possible. And there’s always escape to his secret world of risk, responsibility and danger. In his dreams, Arthur always wins.

The author has drawn on personal experience and observations of elderly men in a support group he helps run for Men’s Matters charity in Windsor, Berkshire. Half of all royalties from the sales of this book will be donated to Men’s Matters, who support older men by encouraging social interaction and connecting them to health and wellbeing support services.



 BUY LINK

Amazon Universal Link: http://mybook.to/ArthurWhitty

 EXCERPT

Arthur at the Pet Shop

Just three doors down, Arthur entered the pet shop and stepped into a different world, like Mr Ben starting a new adventure. The smell of musky animals assailed his nostrils in the dimly lit, claustrophobic space as he strode to the counter, passing stacked rows of subdued creatures. A snake wriggled; its diamond patterned scales catching his eye. A wheel span as a hamster tried its best to attract a buyer to rescue it from this dingy holding cell for captured animals.

“What can I get for your loved pet today, Sir?” a cheerful teenaged girl trilled, clearly sticking to the script.

Arthur noticed a poster of a man whipping a dog sled team across a snowy landscape behind her. It had tried to snow a few days earlier, but now it was nothing but mush. “Mush, erm… dog biscuits please.”

She smiled sweetly and blinked her long fake lashes twice. Arthur noticed a silver ring hanging from her nose that swayed when she leaned forward. “What brand and what size?”

 “The one that says, ‘see your dog’s coat shine like a dewy morning’ on the packet. Make it a medium.”

She slipped behind a curtain into a back room, leaving Arthur staring at the poster…

“Mush! mush!” dog sled champion Art Whitty urged, cracking his whip over the heads of the lead dogs. The team rewarded him with renewed effort as the sled dropped a foot onto the flat, icy surface of a lake. Beyond the pine trees on the far side was the finishing line.

The ice cracked and groaned under his racing sled and Art glanced down to see thin tendrils spreading outwards. Looking over his shoulder he saw one of his main rivals, Calgary Kate, flop her sled onto the ice with a loud crack. Too loud, as the surface gave way and her sled fell through the ice into the freezing cold water. Her scream and cry for help caused Art to hesitate. Should he go back and save her, or drive on to the finish line? He could clinch the six-race championship today.

With a sigh, he turned his sled around. He would haul her out by the ring on her nose if necessary. There would be other races…

“Here you go, Sir.” A kilo packet with convenient handles was plonked on the counter between Arthur and the picture. “That’ll be nine-ninety-nine. I’m sure your pooch’s fur will shine with these.”

“Award-winning Schnauzer, actually.” Arthur tapped his card on the machine, instantly regretting the cheap, unnecessary lie. They had a mongrel rescue dog with bald patches caused by anxiety. “Good day,” he cheerfully quipped as he left the shop. Arthur put the bag down to check his phone. No messages and five minutes to spare.


Tim Walker is an independent author living near Windsor in the UK. Born in Hong Kong in the Sixties, he grew up in Liverpool where he began his working life as a trainee reporter on a local newspaper. He went on to attain an honours degree in Communication Studies in South Wales before moving to London where he worked in the newspaper publishing industry for ten years.

In the mid-90s he opted to spend a couple of years doing voluntary work in Zambia through VSO, running an educational book publishing development programme. After this, he set up his own marketing and publishing business in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, then managed a mineral exploration company before returning to the UK in 2009.

His creative writing journey began in earnest in 2014, as a therapeutic activity whilst recovering from cancer treatment. In addition to short stories, he researched and wrote a five-book historical fiction series, A Light in the Dark Ages. The series connects the end of Roman Britain to the story of Arthur in an imaginative narrative. It starts with Abandoned, then Ambrosius: Last of the Romans; Uther’s Destiny; Arthur Dux Bellorum and Arthur Rex Brittonum, the last two books charting the life of an imagined historical King Arthur.

More recently, he has written a dual timeline historical novel set at Hadrian’s Wall, Guardians at the Wall. His two books of short stories, Thames Valley Tales and London Tales combine contemporary and historical themes and are now available as audiobooks. Somewhere along the way, he co-authored a three-book children’s series with his daughter, Cathy, The Adventures of Charly Holmes.

Author Links

Tim’s Amazon author page: www.author.to/TimWalkerWrites 

Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/678710.Tim_Walker

Tim’s website: www.timwalker1666.wixsite.com/website

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Saturday, June 21, 2025

Book Launch: Marguerite: Hell Hath No Fury—Judith Arnopp’s Powerful Take on a Queen’s Story

 


Marguerite: Queen of England

From the moment Henry VI's new queen, Marguerite of Anjou, sets foot on English soil she is despised by the English as a foreigner, and blamed for the failures of the hundred years war in France.

Her enemies impede her role as the king’s consort and when Henry sinks into apparent madness her bid to become regent is rejected. Marguerite must fight, not only for her own position but to maintain Henry’s possession of the crown.

The ambitious Duke, Richard of York seizes control of the country, thrusting Marguerite aside and inflating the mutual hatred between the houses of York and Lancaster. But the queen refuses to relinquish power and fights determinedly for the rights of her son, Edward of Lancaster.

The long and bitter civil conflict, that has come to be known as the war of the roses, commences.

  Purchase

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Excerpt


1481 - Dampierre-sur-Loire, Anjou

I am the dowager queen, and I should be in England, housed in splendour, lauded, pampered, surrounded by royal grandchildren but instead I am exiled, confined to this backwater in France. Queen of obscurity, of notoriety. I curse each day as it dawns, bringing another unendurable four and twenty hours in which to think … to remember. Little more than a pauper, I am a pensioner of King Louis. I am exiled, ousted and excluded from the country over which I once ruled. Defeat sits heavily on me. My body pains me, my heart aches and my mind is tortured. How did it ever come to this?   

I am a victim of treason, betrayal and regicide. Yes – regicide, the cold-blooded murder of an anointed king and the theft of his crown. Gentle Henry, my husband was brought low by the ambition of the cursed Duke of York and his devil-spawned son.

Even while serving the fifth Henry in France, York chafed against Lancaster, smarting each time a better man was shown greater favour than himself. He coveted riches, he coveted power, no matter the cost, and he sneered at Henry’s efforts to reign peaceably.

The moment I arrived in England as Henry’s queen, I became the focus for York’s hatred. He despised me as a foreigner and a woman, and believing their claim superior to that of Lancaster, the House of York coveted the crown for years. They misliked the way Henry heeded my advice. My directives influenced the king more often than York’s and oh, how that wounded him!

For a long time, our mutual dislike simmered, increasing and spreading like bubbles in a boiling pot until it became so hot, so virulent that it overflowed, splitting the court asunder and forcing cousin to side against cousin.

As England’s noble houses wrought violence against themselves and kin slaughtered kin, dark clouds gathered over England and the rivers ran with blood. With York so close to the crown he could almost grasp it, civil war was inevitable. Spurred on by his kinsmen and his litter of flea-ridden pups, York reached out for what was mine, and in the end, he took it.

On the day we slew York and his son at Wakefield I thought we had won, but his spawn soon replaced him. The repugnant Edward took up his father’s banner. Edward the regicide, the usurper who killed my son, and murdered my king. They locked me away but even when I begged to be allowed to die, he forced me to live.

My life since has been worse than a thousand deaths.

I can barely recall the young, green girl I once was, unskilled in policy, and a stranger to the country I would come to love.

 

Judith Arnopp

A lifelong history enthusiast and avid reader, Judith holds a BA in English/Creative writing and a Masters in Medieval Studies. She lives on the coast of West Wales where she writes both fiction and non-fiction. She is best known for her novels set in the Medieval and Tudor period, focussing on the perspective of historical women but recently she has written a trilogy from the perspective of Henry VIII himself.

Judith is also a founder member of a re-enactment group called The Fyne Companye of Cambria which is when and why she began to experiment with sewing historical garments. She now makes clothes and accessories both for the group and others. She is not a professionally trained sewer but through trial, error and determination has learned how to make authentic looking, if not strictly historically accurate clothing. A non-fiction book about Tudor clothing, How to Dress like a Tudor, was published in 2023 by Pen and Sword.

She runs a small seaside holiday let in Aberporth, and when she has time for fun, she likes to garden and restore antique doll houses. You can find her on most social media platforms.

Her novels include:

A Song of Sixpence: the story of Elizabeth of York

The Beaufort Chronicle: the life of Lady Margaret Beaufort (three book series)

The Henrician Chronicle: comprising of:

A Matter of Conscience: Henry VIII, the Aragon Years (Book One of The Henrician Chronicle)

A Matter of Faith: Henry VIII, the Days of the Phoenix (Book Two of The Henrician Chronicle)

A Matter of Time: Henry VIII, the Dying of the Light (Book Three of The Henrician Chronicle)

The Kiss of the Concubine: a story of Anne Boleyn

The Winchester Goose: at the court of Henry VIII

Intractable Heart: the story of Katheryn Parr

Sisters of Arden: on the Pilgrimage of Grace

The Heretic Wind: the life of Mary Tudor, Queen of England

Peaceweaver

The Forest Dwellers

The Song of Heledd

The Book of Thornhold

A Daughter of Warwick: the story of Anne Neville, Queen of Richard III

Marguerite: Hell Hath No Fury!

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