Ropewalker

The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation''s greatest modern writer

Jaan Kross''s trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Like Hilary Mantel''s Thomas Cromwell, Russow is a diamond in the rough, a thor...