Great Lie, The - A Nick Talbot Adventure — A Nick Talbot Adventure

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae Nick yn rhedeg i ffwrdd oddi wrth ei warcheidwad llym, a hynny gyda chriw sy'n ei dywys i Lundain, dinas sydd yn ferw o gynllwynio gwleidyddol a rhywiol. Daw Nick ar draws Christopher Marlowe, a dyma ddechrau ar y bartneriaeth rhwng Nick a chylch o actorion, awduron, ysbiwyr a dynion dylanwadol iawn, ac mae'n rhaid iddo oroesi a byw ...

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Nick runs away from his tyrannical guardian with a troupe of travelling players who bring him to London, a hotbed of political and sexual intrigue. Nick comes to the attention of Christopher Marlowe and so begins a partnership that puts Nick at the centre of a ring of actors, writers, spies and power-mongers, in which he must survive and prosper ...

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

M Stanford-Smith was born and brought up in Brighton. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and worked in professional theatre and as a teacher before retiring to the Isle of Anglesey, where she founded Ucheldre Repetory Company. The Great Lie is her first novel.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Nick Talbot, 16 year old son of the late first Earl of Rokesby, escapes the clutches of his tyrannical guardian by running away with Will Kempe’s troupe of travelling players. They bring him to London –a hotbed of political and sexual intrigue, in which a number of competing theatres vie for the attention of groundlings and aristocratic patrons alike. Nick is a talented lad and soon comes to the attention of one Christopher Marlowe, playwright, who is in need of both inspiration and discretion. So begins a partnership that leads to one of the most audacious plots the theatre has ever known – and puts Nick at the centre of a ring of actors, writers, spies and power-mongers, in the midst of which he must find a way to survive and prosper … It isn’t long before young Nick Talbot finds himself torn between a career treading the boards of the Rose and the Globe and life as an undercover agent for Good Queen Bess, with Robert Cecil his spymaster. His adventures take him from London to Edinburgh, Antwerp, Venice and Verona, risking life and limb as he couriers vital documents across a continent in political, theatrical and romantic ferment … First in a series of three linked adventures starring swashbuckling hero Nick Talbot, second Earl of Rokesby. Reignites in fictional form the rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare – progenitor of many a conspiracy theory. Vividly evoked and atmospheric first novel of historical fiction that will appeal to fans of the Sharpe stories and hit movies such as Shakespeare in Love.