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Paperback. Very Good.

hardcover. New. 1.6142 in x 9.4094 in x 6.4961 in.

Biteback, 2023. 9781785907920. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered orange cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 464 (no inscriptions).

Hardback. New. Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere, there is opportunity to ascend. But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new King? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon or his hated rival the attorney Edward Coke?

Biteback Publishing, 2023. Hardcover. New. 480 pages. 9.49x6.46x1.65 inches.

London: Biteback, 2023. 1st. h/b. Very good, clipped d/j (in protective sleeve), orange clothbound boards (small mark on cover), gilt spine titling; text block firm (slight forward lean), pages crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere, there is opportunity to ascend. But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new King? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the royal court? Or his hated rival the attorney Edward Coke, already acclaimed as the greatest lawyer of his generation? The Winding Stair tells the gripping story of these two founders of our modern world and their battle for power, pre-eminence Ð and the hand of the most eligible woman in the realm. Combining humour, wit and imagination with deep research, this novel is a dazzling synthesis of history and fiction that takes the genre to new places. It is an epic tale of jealousy and intrigue in Elizabethan and Jacobean… Read More