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   Feb 28, 2022 · An inspirational story of courage and resilience, The Royal Game, charts the rise of three remarkable women from obscurity to the very heart of Court politics and intrigue. Published by HarperCollins Publishers Australia

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   Sep 16, 2021 · England, 1444. Three women challenge the course of history… King Henry VI’s grip on the crown hangs by a thread as the Wars of the Roses starts to tear England apart. And from the ashes of war, the House of Paston begins its rise to power.

   • 3.8/5 (760)
   • Format: Hardcover

   • Author: Anne O'brien

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   The Royal Game. Written by Anne O’Brien. Review by Tracey Warr. The novel opens with a dispute over a will between mother and son, Agnes Paston and John Paston, which sets the tenor of the book. The Pastons are a litigious family, based in Norfolk. Their story is told from the perspectives of three women: Margaret Paston, John’s capable ...

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   Sep 16, 2021 · The Royal Game. Available in the UK in hardback and ebook on 16 September 2021. Paperback published 31st March 2022. The Pastons, a Norfolk family rising from obscurity to the very heart of Court politics and intrigue during the Wars of the Roses. England, 1444.

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   Plot summary. An anonymous narrator opens the story by describing the boarding of a passenger liner traveling from New York to Buenos Aires. One of the passengers is world chess champion Mirko Czentovic. Czentovic is an idiot savant [3] and prodigy with no obvious qualities apart from his talent for chess.

   • Author: Stefan Zweig

   • Publish Year: 1943

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   Mar 31, 2022 · The House of Paston has begun its rise to power and the family’s ability to plot and scheme sees them overcome imprisonment, violence and betrayal to eventually secure for their family a castle ...

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   • An inspirational story of courage and resilience, The Royal Game charts the rise of three remarkable women from obscurity to the very heart of Court politics and intrigue. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

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   • An inspirational story of courage and resilience, The Royal Game charts the rise of three remarkable women. ‘A wonderfully immersive and intriguing read, meticulously researched. I was completely captivated.’

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   • The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide.

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   • The Royal Game was the inspiration for the 1960 Gerd Oswald film Brainwashed, originally titled Schachnovelle, as well as for two Czechoslovakian films: the 1980 Královská hra (The Royal Game) and Šach mat (Checkmate), made for television in 1964.

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