Richardson, Andrew

Andrew Richardson came late to fiction. After being educated in Sheffield and Cambridge, he began reading classic adventure stories by the likes of Alexandre Dumas and Walter Scott, as well as the more literary landscape of Umberto Eco and Jorge Luis Borges. An idea formed that eventually became This Matter of Faith. That idea was to write about the characters who shape the historical past, who interact with the great names we all know and shape history as we know it. The desire to write about the mid-Tudor period in detail and with as much historical accuracy as possible whilst still being ex...