Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition
 
1483. The English throne is in peril. Peasant boy and pretender John Collan is faced with two options.

a) Become kingb) Die trying
 
What could possibly go wrong?
 
Seething with revenge and machination, sparkling with wit and humanity, and roaring with adventure and bravado, The Pretender is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens. 
 
‘A bold and brilliant comedy of royal intrigue’
Guardian
 
‘Funny, moving, filthy and original’
The Times