Winding Stair

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA

'' ... a writer of fearless originality'' GUARDIAN

''Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher'' FRANCIS KING

''du Maurier has no equal'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

It wasn''t until he was forty-five that Bacon''s feet found the first step on that staircase, when King James I made him So...