Alford Stephen

Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, became king at the age of nine and died wholly unexpectedly at the age of fifteen. All around him loomed powerful men who hoped to use the child to further their own ends, but who were also playing a long game - assuming that Edward would long outlive them and become as commanding a figure as his father had...

Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. To start with England was hardly involved and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened. Stephen Alford's evocative, original and...

Obserwatorzy to trzymająca w napięciu opowieść o niestrudzonych zmaganiach szpiegów, kryptografów i oszustów, pragnących uchronić królową przed niebezpieczeństwem, nieustannie śledzących linię brzegową kraju i dyskretnie nadzorujących katolickie seminaria i rzesze poddanych. Stawka była nie byle jaka - księży, przybywających potajemnie do Anglii,...