{"product_id":"the-pretender-by-jo-harkin","title":"The Pretender by Jo Harkin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pretender by Jo Harkin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolf Hall \u003c\/i\u003emeets \u003ci\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/i\u003e in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1483.\u003cbr\u003eThe English throne is in peril.\u003cbr\u003ePeasant boy and pretender John Collan is faced with two options.\u003cbr\u003ea) Become king\u003cbr\u003eb) Die trying\u003cbr\u003eWhat could possibly go wrong?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP TEN BESTSELLER**\u003cbr\u003e**NAMED AS BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY 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\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Funny, moving, filthy and original’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘So alive I felt Harkin might be a time traveller’ \u003c\/b\u003eMaggie Shipstead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I read it with the dedicated fervour of a kid discovering literature for the first time’ \u003c\/b\u003eYael van der Wouden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The most enjoyable historical novel I’ve read in years’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Witty, poignant, wildly engaging, and with a huge heart’ \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Waters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Like a Plantagenet \u003ci\u003eAdrian Mole\u003c\/i\u003e’ \u003c\/b\u003eJenny Colgan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A rollicking account of a befuddled boy’s pillar-to-post existence as a political pawn’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The real deal – nimble, 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