Oh yes, I do agree about the colloquialisms. They did strike a bit of a discordant note.

However, that is a small pebble in a generally grand novel. I have read that Richard is the most frequently written about king in England's history. I wonder if that is true and what the division between traditional and revisionist writings is.

BTW: Who is your candidate for the villain who offed the Lads in the Tower?

Hmm. I think Buckingham is my prime suspect, possibly set up by Morton, who may have even convinced Bucky that it was A Good Idea and in Richard's best interests. I think this is the reason Richard had Bucky executed and refused to let Bucky talk to him or even see him once he'd ordered the execution.

B. was a right bastard, wasn't he? He seems to me as a man too young to have formed either a conscience or a brain, consumed by ambition and perhaps with his own eye on the throne. You are almost surely right as for the reason Richard would not see him after his treason was exposed. Richard was richly supplied both with conscience and brain and doubtless felt the need to guard against his own charity. As for Morton, there is no evil I would put past him. I am weighing the possibility he wrote that dreadful screed attributed to Thomas More.

I meant to tell you I, too, find it difficult to finish books in this genre. It took me forever to force myself to read the Bosworth scene in "Sunne in Splendour". Why hasn't someone written a 'what if' novel in which Richard cuts down the Tydder coward? Did you realize that Richard was the last English king to die in battle and the last to personally lead his army? Old Henry didn't risk his life, preferring to lead from the rear. Bah!

Have you tried "In the court of the midnight king" by Freda Warrington? I'd be interested to hear what you make of it.

It sounds fascinating. However, it appears to be already out of print and none of the copies available through the Amazon vendors is within my price range. I did not know our boy had been treated in the fantasy genre.

I really enjoyed this book, although it was a bit on the light side. As for Aussie slang, this rube from the States would never notice it :)

I have read Court of the Midnight king and it was good fun.there was a lot of magic but that seems to be the vogue now with richard novels.
I loved treason and even got my husband to read it.!!!.I knew he would never even contemplate the Sunne in splendour.