Tony Riches was born in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, UK, and spent part of his childhood in Kenya. He gained a BA degree in Psychology and an MBA from Cardiff University.

After careers in the Royal Air Force, the NHS and Local Government, he is a full-time author of historical fiction.

His Tudor Trilogy has become an international best-seller and he has now completed telling the story of the Tudors and is now wroking on a Stuart queens trilogy.

His blog, The Writing Desk, has over two million visitors, and his popular podcast, Stories of the Tudors has had over 350,000 downloads.

Tony has returned to Pembrokeshire, an area full of inspiration for his writing. In his spare time he enjoys sailing and sea kayaking.

Contact Tony here

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A crown won in the eye of a storm. A queen who refuses to be broken...

Princess Anna of Denmark sails for Scotland to marry King James VI, but storms ravage her fleet, igniting a deadly obsession with witchcraft in her new home. Arriving in a strange and paranoid court, Anna finds her new husband’s bed is a treacherous place.

Surrounded by whispering courtiers and shifting alliances, Anna refuses to remain a passive pawn. When the court takes her children to raise them away from her, the young queen draws her line in the sand.

From the windswept castles of Scotland to the glittering, dangerous English court, Anna is restored to her rightful place in history.

'History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.' - Guy Vanderhaeghe.

"In time I understood one thing - that you don't become a novelist to become a spinner of entertaining lies. You become a novelist so you can tell the truth." - Hilary Mantel

"I am not an historian. I do, though, believe that as historical novelists we owe our readers honesty in the facts as far as they can be proven – recorded events and dates, how people dressed, food eaten and so on, all gleaned from research." - Apple Gidley