We Speak No Treason

By Stephen Overholser

Book Overview

We Speak No Treason, 1971 BCE, by Rosemary Hauley Jarman. Hardcover with dust jacket, 561 pages, published by Little, Brown & Company. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843961074
• ISBN13: 9780843961072
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Pure Magic

This book has been one of my favourites for ten years, and re-read many times. Powerfully written, haunting, heart-breaking and lovely. Unforgettably vivid characters and scenes. Gorgeously poetic.

Unforgettable History of a Brave Ruler

I can't say enough about this amazing novel. So revisionist in its telling of the story of Richard III, this novel will forever change the way you look at historical fact and the shaping of historical prejudices (thank you very much, Thomas More). Sensible brother of King Edward and rapturous lover of Anne, Richard Plantagenet comes off as potentially the greatest ruler of Britain, a mind-spinningly different portrait of...

one of the all-time great reads of my life

This book reads like the gorgeous, fevered dream of someone who really lived in Richard's time. Although I knew Richard's story already, I was cared so much for the characters that I was literally shaking as I approached the end of this book. I can't recommend it highly enough.

We Speak No Treason - My All Time Favorite Book

Rosemary Hawley Jarman's masterpiece is "We Speak No Treason". This book is undoubtedly one of the best fictional accounts of the controversial King Richard III ever written. The characterizations are superb,and the protagonists' intertwining stories each offer different facets of a complex story which combine to round out the plot from many points of view. The fictional and non-fictional characters blend seamlessly ...