Regicide Rocks
Clare Jackson, 17 November 2022
Act of Oblivion
by Robert Harris.
Hutchinson Heinemann, 480 pp., £22, September,978 1 5291 5175 6 Show More
by Robert Harris.
Hutchinson Heinemann, 480 pp., £22, September,
“... and that ‘almost every character is real’ – his sole invention being their pursuer, Richard Nayler, mockingly saluted by James, duke of York, as ‘our regicide-hunter-in-chief’.The New England experiences of Whalley and Goffe are not unknown to historians; Christopher Pagliuco’s The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe ... ”