The Winding Stair, Jesse Norman
The Winding Stair, Jesse Norman
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The Winding Stair

Author: Jesse Norman

Narrator: John Telfer

Unabridged: 15 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2024


Synopsis

Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere, there is opportunity to ascend. But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new King? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the royal court? Or his hated rival the attorney Edward Coke, already acclaimed as the greatest lawyer of his generation? The Winding Stair tells the gripping story of these two founders of our modern world and their battle for power, pre-eminence - and the hand of the most eligible woman in the realm. Combining humour, wit and imagination with deep research, this novel is a dazzling synthesis of history and fiction that takes the genre to new places. It is an epic tale of jealousy and intrigue in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, which, in its lowest moments, holds a darkened mirror to our own contemporary politics.

About Jesse Norman

Jesse Norman, Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire, is a senior fellow at Policy Exchange, the most influential British conservative think tank based in London. He is widely regarded as one of the architects of New Conservatism, a political philosophy that stresses using traditionally conservative techniques and concepts in order to improve the general welfare of society. Jesse is also the author or editor of several books, including The Achievement of Michael Oakeshott, The Big Society, Compassionate Conservatism, and After Euclid.


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