Jo Harkin’s new book is based on the odyssey of a young boy who became a claimant to the British throne.

Jo Harkin has invented her own literary language with her dazzling novel “The Pretender” about Edward Plantagenet, a boy ...

He’s intoxicated by tales of battlefield valor, imagining a duel with the local billy goat, yet he’s also tender-hearted, a ...

John's real name is Edward, Earl of Warwick, and he is to be king. "The Pretender" is a new novel from Jo Harkin, and it is drawn from history. Jo Harkin joins us from Berkshire in the U.K. Thanks ...

Her dazzling, jocular novel “The Pretender” recounts the journey of one John Collan, from his anonymous boyhood in a rural village to a claim, as Edward Plantagenet, on the English monarchy.

The Argyle Theatre opened its production of the Tony Award winning musical Fiddler on the Roof directed by Evan Pappas and ...

It was an extraordinary time. The Pretender by Jo Harkin. Set in 15th Century England at the juncture between the Plantaganets and the Tudors, this is fiction which is fun, bawdy, historically ...