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HISTORICAL FICTION

BY TONY RICHES

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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 is in regular demand as a guest speaker about the lives of the early Tudors. 


His blog, The Writing Desk, has over 1.4 million visitors, and his popular podcast, Stories of the Tudors has had over 270,000 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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NEW on Amazon:

Frances Walsingham is the only surviving child of Queen Elizabeth’s ‘spymaster’ Sir Francis Walsingham. Better educated than most men, her father arranges her marriage to warrior poet Sir Philip Sidney.

After Philip Sidney is killed in battle, Frances becomes Countess of Essex, and is banished from court after her husband Sir Robert Devereaux’s rebellion against the queen.

Can she marry for love, if it means turning her back on her faith and all she knows?

Based on extensive historical research, this is the story of Frances, Countess of Essex and Clanricarde.

'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

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