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The Adventures of Alianore Audley

door Brian Wainwright

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'Roger wore his collar of golden Yorkist suns to show that he was one of the King's knights, ludicrous piked shoes to show that he was fashionable, and a massive codpiece to show that he had a vivid imagination.' Alianore Audley is a good, submissive, demure woman of the fifteenth century ... and if you believe that, you'll believe anything. But she is a spy in Edward IV's intelligence service, and the author of a chronicle that casts - well, a new light, let's say, on the times of the Yorkist kings. History will never be the same after Alianore. Nor will most other novels. Brian Wainwright's debut novel The Adventures of Alianore Audley is a brilliantly funny, subversive spoof.… (meer)
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Fun and amusing

I enjoyed the different telling of a story I know so very well. Don't take it seriously and just enjoy. The author has all the timelines correct and very interesting theories. ( )
  ChrisCaz | Feb 23, 2021 |
This was a fun romp. It helps to know a thing or two about the Wars of the Roses. The author clearly knows a thing or forty five. While this is clearly not a serious historical novel so much as a lovely bit of fun, its a lovely bit of fun that has its basic facts right. I laughed a lot with Alianore, her irrepressible career through the violent landscape of late fifteenth century Endland and her thoroughly irreverent take on the vagaries of her lecherous cousin Edward IV, his sadly humor impaired brother Richard III and their unfortunate successor, The Tudor Slimeball. I really had fun with this and recommend it highly. ( )
  bunwat | Mar 30, 2013 |
If you're looking for a little levity, you can't go wrong in spending an afternoon with Alianore, who is not your typical 15th century waiting woman - she's a saucy, savvy, sexy little spy for her cousin, King Edward IV, employed in the household of her other cousin, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. At times she is biased and unreliable - she's got some fanciful stories about certain events that take place during Richard's reign - but she's always entertaining.

Alianore finds herself in one jam after another as she contrives to balance the demands of political intrigue with her life's ambition to be an ordinary knight's lady. This is a quick read and great fun, particularly if, like me, you've read more than your fair share of medieval novels!

Witness this recent entry from the Court Circular, in the Alliances Sought section:

"Damosel, XXI years. Warranted chaste and obedient. No visible blemishes. Offers to John Audley, at Eltham. Woodvilles, Hautes, etc. need not apply."

Or Paragraph Eighteen from the Knightly Code: "No knight, esquire, or armiger shall carry off, ravish or imprison any lady, damosel or gentlewoman (except for the purpose of taking her in canonical marriage against her will) under pain of six months banishment from all tournaments in Western Europe and a fine of twenty-four shillings."

Or the sign on the wall of a favorite London cook-shop: "Anne Neville, Duchess of Gloucester, worked here, 1471."

The author explains that he rattled off this little romp as a break to get his creative juices flowing again while writing his more serious work, Within the Fetterlock. I highly recommend this little tart of a book! ( )
1 stem jdquinlan | Feb 15, 2010 |
Lively tale told by a delightful and thoroughly devious spy mistress about the end of the War of the Roses. ( )
  jamespurcell | Jan 24, 2010 |
Alas for poor Alianore! All she wants to do is sit quietly embroidering at home with her beloved husband, but the royal intelligence service needs her!

I laughed out loud at this. Wainwright employs a such variety of humor techniques that the jokes often took me completely by surprise. The story-telling shows great familiarity with the history, all the while rocking it with anachronisms and satire.

For Richard III zealots, this is a pro-Richard book. ( )
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'Roger wore his collar of golden Yorkist suns to show that he was one of the King's knights, ludicrous piked shoes to show that he was fashionable, and a massive codpiece to show that he had a vivid imagination.' Alianore Audley is a good, submissive, demure woman of the fifteenth century ... and if you believe that, you'll believe anything. But she is a spy in Edward IV's intelligence service, and the author of a chronicle that casts - well, a new light, let's say, on the times of the Yorkist kings. History will never be the same after Alianore. Nor will most other novels. Brian Wainwright's debut novel The Adventures of Alianore Audley is a brilliantly funny, subversive spoof.

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