Treason

Meredith Whitford's superbly researched and richly woven novel shows Shakespeare's conniving and perverse Richard III in a realistic new light. Whitford corrects the Shakespearean myth and crowns a new hero, bringing back to life the passion and heat of a breathless historical moment that shaped the world - a moment we know as the War of the Roses . . . a time of thorns and treason.

Kara L Wolf

Sweeping, grand, ambitious ... I was literally breathless once I got into this book. The descriptions of London, of dress of the day ... recollections of the fears before a battle, and of the time-stop effect a battle has on a man. The plot - the rise and fall of a king - is almost incidental next to the fascinating life of a pre-Elizabethan England, complete with in-fighting, treachery, honor, and friendship. A fascinating historical novel, a wonderful work of fiction, and a romance of ages.

Meredith Whitford lives in South Australia. She is a freelance editor and writer, and director of Between Us Manuscript Assessment Service. Meredith has a degree in History, Classics and English from the University of Adelaide. Her interests are reading, history, sleeping, watching too much Red Dwarf and listening to Queen and Mozart. She is married, with two children and three cats. When she isn’t editing other people’s books she tries to find time to write.

She can be contacted at [email protected]