ARGONAUT BOOKS

One of our most exciting historical novelists takes on the peasants' revolt, in a blow-by-blow account of unlikely leader Wat Tyler and the 16 days in 1381 that turned England upside down. With cinematic action and a relish for medieval vocabulary, it's a punky successor to Hilary MantelGuardianBlakemore is a formidable talent. Few can evoke the past in such an urgent, deft way - and with Doom Painting she surely joins the first rank of historical fiction writers alongside Mantel and TremainKiran Millwood HargraveExquisite and urgent, Doom Painting is so much more than historical fiction. It c...Read More