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  • Published: 25 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405959919
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $22.99

Firebrand

Previously published as Queen’s Gambit, now a major feature film starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law




Travel to Tudor England is this vivid tale charting the life and love of Katherine Parr, wife and widower to Henry VIII. Previously published as Queen’s Gambit, FIREBRAND is now a major feature film

Meet the woman who survived Henry VIII.

My name is Katherine Parr.

I'm 31 years old and already twice widowed.

I'm in love with a man I can't have, and am about to wed a man no-one would want.

My husband-to-be is none other than Henry VIII, who has already beheaded two wives, cast aside two more, and watched one die in childbirth.

What will become of me once I'm wearing his ring and become Queen of England?

They say that the sharpest blades are sheathed in the softest pouches.

Only time will tell what I am really made of...

  • Published: 25 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405959919
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $22.99

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Praise for Firebrand

‘Electric’

Good Housekeeping

‘Beautifully written and finely observed, this suspenseful tale of Henry the Eighth's last wife expertly conveys all the dangerous intensity and passion of the Tudor court’

RACHEL HORE, author of A PLACE OF SECRETS