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"Will seduce the reader right off the bat." -- READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARD WINNER.
"A fascinating portrait of an enduring legend." ? BOOKLIFE PRIZE
"Well crafted and meticulously researched" -- PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
"Utterly Compelling." ? John McLaren ? Author of "Black Cabs"
"I've read about Byron before, but never like this." M L Keegan
A STRANGE BEGINNING
He was later to become known as "The most beautiful and most famous man in England" -- but not yet...
Beginning when he is a boy of ten years old, we join George Gordon when he is living a miserable life with his manic Scottish mother in a few rented rooms above a shop in Aberdeen, unaware that his true surname is not Gordon, and that his true heritage is with the English aristocracy - who soon come to claim him.
A life of wealth and privilege is then bestowed upon him, which eventually sets the stage for him to prove his own individual worth, in his own way, and in his own time.
A STRANGE WORLD - Book 2
At twenty-seven, Lady Caroline Lamb reads the story of a young aristocrat's strange journey through unknown and barbaric parts of Europe in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and declares her opinion that the author would certainly be "mad, bad, and dangerous to know."
A few weeks later she actually meets him, and becomes obsessed to the point of erotomania.
From the wilds of Albania to a life of luxury as one of the beau monde in Regency London, George Gordon Lord Byron is astounded at the burst of fame that engulfs him on the publication of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."
Meticulously researched, and adapted into novel form, 'A Strange World' is a vivid and truthful portrait of the most iconic young man of his time, and Britain's first superstar.
MAD, BAD, AND DELIGHTFUL TO KNOW -- Book 3
Living amongst the richest people of the highest strata of London Society and being fallen over by its glamorous women, Lord Byron, the "Idol Poet" of his time, has never quite got over the raw emotions of his unrequited love for his country cousin Mary Chaworth.
Until they meet again, and Mary finds new hope for a happier life with the man she had once rejected as a teenage boy, and now deeply loves.
Byron brings down the wrath of the newspapers for using his poetry to criticise the bloated Prince Regent, and speak up for the starving English poor; but the attacks on his name do not trouble him at all.
Although he remains troubled by Lady Caroline Lamb, who is now stick-thin and gaunt-faced from the pain of her insane love for him; hiding in his publisher's waiting room and sneakily following him through the streets, until he complains in a letter to Lady Melbourne - "I am being haunted by a skeleton!"
A story full of humour and drama and colourful events and people from the Regency era, including Beau Brummell, and so many others ? all mad and bad and delightful to know.
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