Sir Walter Raleigh: A New History – Cover Reveal

For the past couple of years I’ve spent time researching and writing a new book which is titled Sir Walter Raleigh: A New History. No doubt I will post up a few interesting pieces of what I’ve found out on the blog in the months ahead, but for now I thought I’d post up the book cover.

The blurb of the book is as follows:

Dispersed throughout the centuries and across the globe – a sleepy Devonshire village, a 1950s Hollywood film set, a horse hurtling on a Victorian racecourse, the Beatles meditating in India, a border dispute in South America, and a storm raging in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1993… they all lead back to Sir Walter Raleigh.  He is the man of paradoxes: the outsider who wanted access to the royal court, a monarchist who later became a republican hero, a lover and a fighter, a pirate and a poet, the last great Elizabethan superstar and the first victim of the Stuart dynasty. Let’s chart his rise, his fall, and his legacy.

I’m really proud of the way it has turned out, particularly in the narrative that it tells and its links to the modern world (I’m also glad that I was able to reference my favourite band The Beatles in a book about the Tudor age!). The publisher Pen & Sword have been excellent in making it all look fantastic, both in terms of the edit and in the book cover design, as seen below:

For more information, and to pre-order it, you can find it here.