Toby Clements A Good Deliverance review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de Engelse historische roman over Warwick in de 15e eeuw. Op 3 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Faber & Faber de paperback van de historische roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Toby Clements. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Toby Clements A Good Deliverance review en recensie
- “Clements is so convincing on the detail of his characters” lives that it is difficult to believe that he never walked in the brutal, messy world he conjures up on the page.” (The Times)
- “Enthralling, honest … the past, here, is imagined with ferocity, with hunger to engage.” (Hilary Mantel)
A Good Deliverance
- Auteur: Toby Clements (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse historische roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Faber & Faber
- Verschijnt: 3 juli 2025
- Omvang: 384 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 9,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de historische roman over Warwick in 1468 van Toby Clements
From the author of the Kingmaker series, an epic and intimate tale of adventure, myth and the creation of one of literature’s greatest stories.
Warwick, 1468. One drowsy summer afternoon, Sir Thomas Malory – politician, courtier, outlaw, renowned author of Le Morte D’Arthur – is seized from his garden and dragged to Newgate Prison for reasons unknown.
Shivering in his foul-smelling, filthy old cell, Malory mourns his misspent life as he awaits the execution bell. But when the locking bar lifts, he is greeted by a boy of about twelve winters: the gaoler’s son. Giddy with relief, Malory seizes the opportunity to recount his deeds to an audience.
So begins a prison confession of a perilously exciting life full of sieges, battles and court intrigue. A Good Deliverance is the captivating tale of a man at odds with his past and the events that inspired him to write the first great work of prose fiction in English.
Toby Clements was inspired to write the Kingmaker series having first become obsessed by the Wars of the Roses after a school trip to Tewkesbury Abbey, on the steps of which the Lancastrian claim to the English throne was extinguished in a welter of blood in 1471. Since then he has read everything he can get his hands on and spent long weekends at re-enactment fairs. He has learned to use the longbow and how to fight with the poll axe, how to start a fire with a flint and steel and a shred of baked linen. He has even helped tan a piece of leather (a disgusting experience involving lots of urine and dog faeces). Little by little he became less interested in the dealings of the high and mighty, however colourful and amazing they might have been, and more fascinated by the common folk of the 15th Century: how they lived, loved, fought and died. How tough they were, how resourceful, resilient and clever. As much as anything this book is a hymn to them.