The Waiting Game Jo McMillan with vivid action and stirring

with vivid action and stirring personal journeys

Unpublishable by the more staid (and censored) presses across the Channel

riveting plot and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz to climate change to our attachment to material possessions

What Cotton discovers amid the stifling heat and dust could just tilt the emerging balance of post-war power

a mother and her young son desperately fend for themselves in the confinement of their one bedroom flat

The Waiting Game Jo McMillan with vivid action and stirringEvery Tudor Queen had ladies in waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded