Toby Clements's fourth and final instalment in the Kingmaker historical series, set during England's bloody and brutal War of the Roses. If you liked Conn Iggulden's Stormbird, you will love Toby Clements' Kingmaker novels.
Toby Clements was inspired to write the Kingmaker series having
first become obsessed by the Wars of the Roses after a school trip
to Tewkesbury Abbey, on the steps of which the Lancastrian claim to
the English throne was extinguished in a welter of blood in
1471.
Since then he has read everything he can get his hands on and spent
long weekends at re-enactment fairs. He has learned to use the
longbow and how to fight with the poll axe, how to start a fire
with a flint and steel and a shred of baked linen. He has even
helped tan a piece of leather (a disgusting experience involving
lots of urine and dog faeces). Little by little he became less
interested in the dealings of the high and mighty, however
colourful and amazing they might have been, and more fascinated by
the common folk of the 15th Century- how they lived, loved, fought
and died. How tough they were, how resourceful, resilient and
clever. As much as anything this book is a hymn to them.
He lives in London with his wife and three children. This is his
second novel.
Toby Clements does it again with another powerhouse of a book:
thrilling and literate, engaging, passionate, deeply moving and
full of historical detail of the sort that fills me with awe for
the fortitude of our ancestors and yet makes me so glad I live in
the safety of the twenty-first century. This is going to be one of
the stellar series of our generation, redefining that period of
history that we think we know, and discover we really don’t.
Bravo!
*- Manda Scott*
Should be required reading for fans of historical fiction
*The Times*
A major achievement in historical fiction
*Historia Magazine*
Clements is so convincing on the detail of his characters’ lives
that it is difficult to believe that he never walked in the brutal,
messy world he conjures up on the page
*The Times*
Toby Clements’ Kingmaker series is historical fiction at its very
finest - and Kingdom Come is the best of them all.
*William Ryan*
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