A Diamond in the Dust is a fictionalised account of the life of Charles I from his birth to the age of twenty-eight. It shows England's most maligned monarch, Charles I, as he really was. Dominated by his debauched father, James I, he grew up a diffident, stuttering, dreamy figure, wracked by a crippling disease - rickets. But he was lifted and defined by his passion for all the arts, especially theatre and painting. Brutal real-life caught up with him, however, spinning him at the centre of a whirlwind of love, art, war and even murder, as he struggled unsuccessfully to keep control of his life and his kingdom. This first novel in the trilogy The Stuarts: Love, Art, War, shows Charles I growing up and finding love. It puts the vilified king in a different light. Under the wing of his precocious sister Elizabeth he blossoms and his interest in culture and the arts grows into a passion or some would say an obsession.
Michael Dean has a history degree from Worcester College, Oxford, an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Edinburgh University and a translator's qualification (AIL) in German. He has published several novels. The Darkness into Light omnibus (Sharpe Books, 2017): The Rise and Fall of the Nazis comprises five titles: Before the Darkness - about the German Jewish Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, assassinated in 1922; The Crooked Cross - about Hitler and art; The Enemy Within - about Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation; Hour Zero - about Germany in 1946; Magic City - a novel of Jewish identity set in Germany in the early 1970s. He also published some stand-alone novels: Thorn, (Bluemoose Books, 2011) about Spinoza and Rembrandt; I, Hogarth (Duckworth-Overlook, 2012), which sets out to unify Hogarth's life with his art; The White Crucifixion, a novel about Marc Chagall, was published by Holland Park Press in February 2018. True Freedom - How America came to fight Britain for its independence was published by Holland Park Press in June 2019. His non-fiction includes a book about Chomsky and many educational publications.
Title: A Diamond in the Dust: The Stuarts: Love, Art, War: 1
Author: Dean, Michael
ISBN: 9781907320965
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Publisher: Holland Park Press
Publication Date: 2022-11-10
Number of Pages: 225
Weight: 0.3131 kg