Queen's Gambit (Thorndike Core)The court of Henry VIII is rife with intrigue, rivalries and romance and none are better placed to understand this than the women at its heart. Katherine Parr, widowed for the second time aged thirty one, is obliged to return to court but, suspicious of the aging king and those who surround him, she does so with reluctance. Nevertheless, when she finds herself caught up in a passionate affair with the dashing and seductive Thomas Seymour, she believes

Sole witness to this contest

At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir

This is the Cathedral of the Sea: a church to be built for the people by the people

challenge his juggler's dexterity

who is safe in a nearby town and has given birth to a son

even the most sophisticated devices were no protection against the intruder who murdered him in his own factory

Without Gwyna

Ted must fight for the right to hold on to everything he holds most dear

he has no intention of murdering his wife

so real that his skin and its pelt begin to feel as one

Her job on the line

Thomas becomes the hunted as his campaign is destroyed by the church