Mostly Murders

An illegitimate son from already questioned blood. Roland. The bastard.

After many years of exile in Brittany, Henry Tudor is marching against Richard III. Among Henry’s retinue is Roland, Henry’s illegitimate son who is aching to be recognised by his father.

As the army advances towards a lethal encounter with the forces of Richard III, Roland is plunged into the politics and schemes surrounding Henry Tudor and his allies and foes and soon comes to realise that it isn’t always that easy to tell the two apart. Making both friends and enemies with his brashness and honesty, Roland’s march towards Bosworth becomes his trial of fire, and he will have to find a way to survive battle, betrayal and the rigid societal constraints and prejudices of the time, or die trying.

A Bastard’s Bosworth is the story of the creation of a king, told not from the point of view of the court, but seen from the perspective of Roland, an outsider who is right in the middle of the action. Recommended for historical fiction fans and for anyone looking for a novel with dramatic descriptions of bloody battles, interesting historical details of Tudor-era armies on campaign, and a hot-blooded, underdog main character with the fury of youth and the odds stacked against him.

Book 1 in the Tudor Bastard Series. Many thanks to T. J. Hawkins for the review copy of this novel.

Historical fiction – Tudor-era