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A Treasonous Path… almost!

20 Thursday Oct 2022

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Tom gave a last, narrow-eyed frown at the letter’s signature — a false name, since no “Henry Fagot” resided with the French Ambassador, Monsieur de Castelnau at Salisbury Court. But then, the whole matter was a rigmarole: a mysterious informant writing his letters in bad French, and hiding them in an Italian fencing-master’s hat. Almost too fanciful to be true — and yet…

This was the third time, since returning from France late in May, that Tom had been summoned to the wood-panelled study, and set to read this fellow Fagot’s papers, and then made to unpick their meaning under his great cousin’s Sphinx-like scrutiny.

“So, Thomas?”

Tom took a good deep breath and straightened away from the windowsill. “So the French Ambassador’s servants are smuggling in Catholic books, but that is more an embarrassment than anything else,” he said — slow and considering. “Either this Henry Fagot is not very good at telling what is important, or he has a grudge against the Ambassador’s butler and cook…”

Publication day for Book Two of Tom Walsingham’s adventures in espionage and sleuthing is little more than a week away… Continue reading →

German regrets

09 Thursday Jun 2022

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Adelbert von Chamisso, German language, Karl Stählin, research, Sir Francis Walsingham, studying languages

Do you speak German, o Readers?

Now, Italian is my native language – and I find it beautiful. Also, as you can probably guess, I love English very much. I also like French and Spanish.

German… not so much. Continue reading →

Sometimes it is the small things

28 Thursday Jan 2021

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They stopped Walsingham and Paulo, my Italian, whom they seemed resolved to rob [… and] another Englishman in his company, called Skeggs, as I remember.

On the twelfth of November 1581 Elizabeth’s Ambassador in Paris, Sir Henry Cobham, wrote to the all-powerful Secretary of State – and spymaster – Sir Francis Walsingham . It was almost in passing that the ambassador slipped in this bit of information about the misadventure of Sir Francis’s much younger cousin, nineteen-year-old Thomas, riding as a diplomatic courier between London and Paris. Continue reading →

Hear-ye hear-ye! (or, Sapere Books and I)

03 Thursday Sep 2020

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murder mystery, Publishing, Sapere Books, Sir Francis Walsingham

I believe I’ve hinted, now and then, at a work in progress labeled “TW”, set in Elizabethan times and hopefully destined for promising developments?

Well, o Readers, the developments have happened, and I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve signed a publishing deal with the wonderful Sapere Books! Continue reading →

The Ruins at Scadbury

09 Saturday Jan 2016

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A.D. Wraight, christopher marlowe, Marlovianism, Scadbury, Sir Francis Walsingham, Thomas Walsingham

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I’m no Marlovian, thank you very much. I think Kit Marlowe was a genius without adding Shakespeare’s canon in the bargain and, if you wanted to pigeon-hole me, you could say I’m an orthodox Stratfordian who occasionally enjoys the story potential of alternative theories – provided it’s done well.

This is to explain that I don’t share the opinions contained in the Marlowe Studies Website. Still, they have lovely things there – one being a series of black and white images of Thomas Walsingham’s Scadbury Manor. Or at least, what remains of it. Continue reading →

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