Kings are born, but can they also be made or faked? It's 1483, and John Collan is 10 years old. His object in life is to rid his village of a demon goat that knocks him about, until a stranger, well ...
Author of The Pretender, which was shortlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, on why the story of Lambert ...
Rare’s the author who invents her own literary language, but Jo Harkin has accomplished just that. Her dazzling, jocular novel “The Pretender” recounts the journey of one John Collan, from his ...