Fraud Squad
Ferdinand Mount: Imposters, 2 August 2007
The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation
by Rohan McWilliam.
Continuum, 363 pp., £25, March 2007,978 1 85285 478 2 Show More
by Rohan McWilliam.
Continuum, 363 pp., £25, March 2007,
A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson
by Frances Welch.
Short Books, 327 pp., £14.99, February 2007,978 1 904977 71 1 Show More
by Frances Welch.
Short Books, 327 pp., £14.99, February 2007,
The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of York
by David Baldwin.
Sutton, 220 pp., £20, July 2007,978 0 7509 4335 2 Show More
by David Baldwin.
Sutton, 220 pp., £20, July 2007,
“... bad temper to keep doubters at bay. The willing suspension of disbelief by others does the rest. Frances Welch takes as the epigraph to her entrancing account of Anna’s story the maxim from Ship of Fools: ‘The World wants to be deceived.’ Welch has no thesis to grind out beyond the demonstration of this ... ”
