I’ve spent the last few weeks writing posts and articles about Walter Raleigh to help promote my novel Fortune’s Hand. The first of them have started to appear. My thanks to all those who have agreed to host my musings. Here’s one on Heidi Malagisi’s blog, Adventures of a Tudor Nerd. Another on Tony Riches’ …

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Oakfast. Seedburst. Crossing. War. A damask sea. Cozening. Drunk on geography. The new Aphrodite. The savage tongue. Solar alchemy. The Great Comet. Lunar alchemy. The Presence Chamber. Gallows fly. A very pirate. Poor John. Aboard the admiral. Tar. Cannonshot. The Paradoxal Compass. Tennis. Making ink. A dozen devils. For a suit of clothes. Conjuring enemies. The Golden Fort. Very well. This. Letters. Groans. Further examples. Wintergreen. Revels. She gives. The old cob house. I am Water. Whither? Whispers. Fall. The whiff of treasure. Ripples. Have with you to Walsingham. Backwater. Ebbtide. Undertide. Dreamtide. Lowtide. Woetide. Bloodtide. Meta Incognita. Wind-whipped. Best hated. Hellburners. Politic. For what …

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To judge by the majority of its Amazon reviews, one book of mine seems to be pretty universally loathed: Summon Up the Blood. It’s fair to say that there are people who hate it. They hate it so much that they feel compelled, more than with any of my other books, to go on Amazon …

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Here are some of the books I consulted when I was researching Fortune’s Hand. They range from biographies of Raleigh (or Ralegh as he is more ‘correctly’ spelled) and other notable figures of the period, to general histories and studies of specific aspects of the life at that time. It’s by no means an exhaustive …

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