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Overview: David was born in post-war Nottingham, and educated at Nottingham High School. After obtaining a Law degree he became a career-long criminal law practitioner and academic, emigrating in 1989 to Australia, where he still lives. Combining his two great loves of History and the English language he began writing historical novels as an escape from the realities of life in the criminal law, but did not begin to publish them until close to fulltime retirement, when digital publishing offered a viable alternative to literary agencies, print publishers and rejection slips. Now blessed with all the time in the world, his former hobby has become a fulltime occupation as he enjoys life in rural New South Wales with his wife, sons and grandchildren to keep him firmly grounded in the reality of the contemporary world.
Genre: Historical Fiction
1. Tudor Dawn
The rise of the Royal House of Tudor! England, 1469-1509. The Wars of the Roses are raging and England is in turmoil with the ongoing power-struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
As the throne is wrested between Henry VI of Lancaster and Edward IV of York, young Henry Tudor grows up in exile.
A powerful threat to one faction and a symbol of hope for the other, Henry Tudor is moulded by his battled-hardened uncle Jasper and his power-hungry mother, Margaret Beaufort into the king he will one day become.
How will Henry prove his worth as heir to the throne? Will he live up to his uncle’s expectations? He must fulfill his destiny to finally unite the red rose and the white…
2. The King’s Commoner
Men rise and fall from power in Henry VIII’s treacherous court…Tudor England. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York owes his favoured status to the most volatile monarch that the nation has ever known.
In an age when a man can be a royal favourite one day, and consigned to an unspeakable death the next, Wolsey walks the tightrope above his many enemies.
Chief among these is the bullying Duke of Norfolk, scion of a noble family who bitterly resents the preferment of a butcher’s son to positions of power and influence that he regards as his by birth.
Norfolk sees his chance when Wolsey fails King Henry VIII in his attempt to secure the annulment of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, so Anne Boleyn can be made Queen.
In the maelstrom of Tudor politics, Wolsey learns the hard way that loyalty and ability will not protect a fallen favourite from the sting of royal wrath…
3. Justice For The Cardinal
What leads to the King’s favour one day, can be deadly on the next…
Tudor England. Following the unjust death of Cardinal Wolsey, his protégé Thomas Cromwell is determined to take his revenge on those he holds responsible, most of all Queen Anne Boleyn and her uncle Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk.
But Thomas is obliged to acquire the services of a spy, Richard Ashton, who can act as his eyes and ears within a Court that falls silent in the presence of the man who has risen to be ‘Master Secretary’, and King Henry’s new close confidante.
As King Henry lurches through one cursed marriage after another, he is surrounded by a Court that is as immoral and treacherous as it is rich.
And while Cromwell may easily dispose of some of his enemies, it’s clear others could tear him down.
As Richard Ashton becomes more embroiled in courtly affairs, it seems his life could also be on the line…
4. An Uneasy Crown
The Tudor court is thrown into turmoil! Who can fill the shoes of the indomitable King Henry VIII…?
In the six year period between 1547 and 1553, Tudor England is juggled through the hands of four separate monarchs.
After the infamous reign of Henry VIII ends, his nine year old son Edward VI briefly takes charge, under the dubious guidance of a Regency Council headed by Edward Seymour, Earl of Somerset, whose rise to pre-eminence is resented by his wayward younger brother Thomas.
Despite the best efforts of the Seymours, Edward is keen to bequeath his throne to his cousin, and, unknown to those in power, the bloody reign of his sister – the staunchly Catholic Mary Tudor – is on the horizon.
In the midst of all this confusion two young girls grow up as constant companions on their Leicestershire estates. One – Jane – was almost destined to reign. While the other – Grace – has a much humbler fate.
As the machinations of men in power determine who lives and who dies, these two close female friends must fight their own private battles as they carve out their destinies in this tumultuous period of English history.
5. The Queen In Waiting
The Elizabethan Era is on the horizon! It is time for the Tudor queens to take power.
Mary Tudor has claimed her sovereignty. But she remains conscious that her Council had briefly preferred another — her cousin, the Lady Jane Grey — and at the age of thirty-seven, unmarried and childless, she looks fearfully at the natural beauty and popularity of her nineteen-year-old half-sister Elizabeth.
After several suppressed uprisings against her unwise marriage to Philip of Spain, and her brutal burning of those who resist her determination to return England to Catholic worship under Papal supremacy, Mary subjects Elizabeth to various indignities such as imprisonment in the Tower, house arrest and banishment from the Court.
Somehow the young Tudor princess must survive the lies, intrigues and back-stabbings conspiring against her, as she waits for her moment to take the throne…
6. The Heart of a King
The infamous Virgin Queen is on the throne! The end is nigh for the Tudor Dynasty…
Elizabeth Tudor is crowned at the age of twenty-five, scarred by the reign of her jealous sister Mary.
With few trusted confidantes and determined not to let her gender undermine her authority, Queen Elizabeth’s fraught monarchy is plagued by intrigue and deception.
She must navigate her way through the challenge to the throne by her cousin Mary Queen of Scots, the threat from the Spanish Armada, and marriage proposals from European monarchs desperate to steal her power. Not to mention her own personal heartbreak…
She was known as the Virgin Queen, the people’s Gloriana, and was immortalised as ‘The Fairy Queen’. But behind her public mask was a world of inner turmoil. The Tudor Age had begun with a battle against tyranny, and for Elizabeth, it was destined to end with a battle between her head and the heart…
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