The King's Spy (Thomas Hill Trilogy 1) (40 page)

David Lindley (ed.),
Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments, 1605–40

Peter Young & Richard Holmes,
The English Civil War

In writing
The King’s Spy
, I am grateful, first and foremost, to my wife Susan for her patient support. My daughter Laura and son Tom were also very helpful with suggestions and observations, as was my brother Michael.

Without exception, those to whom I turned for information or advice went out of their way to help, including the Romsey Library, Pembroke, Christ Church and Merton Colleges, Oxford, the Coroners’ Society of England and Wales and the Sealed Knot Society, and I thank them. The book might never have seen the light of day without the support of Fraser Jansen of Waterstones, to whom I owe a very special thank-you.

I am immensely fortunate to have Emma Buckley as my editor. It has been a pleasure working with her and her colleagues at Transworld.

After reading Law at Cambridge University, Andrew Swanston held various positions in the book trade, including being a director of Waterstone’s and chairman of Methven’s PLC, before turning to full-time writing. Inspired by a lifelong interest in seventeenth-century history, his Thomas Hill novels are set during the English Civil War, and the early period of the Restoration. He lives with his wife in Surrey.

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THE KING’S SPY
A CORGI BOOK: 9780552166102
Version 1.0 Epub ISBN 9781446487273

First published in Great Britain as
The King’s Codebreaker
by Andrew Douglas in 2010 by Matador

Published in Great Britain in 2012 by Bantam Press
an imprint of Transworld Publishers
Corgi paperback edition published 2013

Copyright © Andrew Swanston 2012
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