Dangerous Kingdom of Love

''Witty, original and clever, this tale of Jacobean power and lust is a blast'' THE TIMES, Best Historical Fiction of the Year

Francis Bacon, philosopher, politician, writer, is an outsider at the court of King James I. He is clever but not aristocratic, has ambition but no money. So when his political enemies form a deadly alliance against him, centred around the King''s poisonous lover Robert Ca...