A Diamond in the Dust by Michael Dean

A Diamond in the Dust by Michael Dean

A novel showing King Charles I growing up and finding love, and putting the vilified king in a different light.

A DIAMOND IN THE DUST is a fictionalised account of the life of Charles I from his birth to the age of twenty-eight. It shows England's most maligned monarch, Charles I, as he really was. Dominated by his debauched father, James I, he grew up a diffident, stuttering, dreamy figure, wracked by a crippling disease--rickets. But he was lifted and defined by his passion for all the arts, especially theatre and painting. Brutal real-life caught up with him, however, spinning him at the centre of a whirlwind of love, art, war and even murder, as he struggled unsuccessfully to keep control of his life and his kingdom.

This first novel in the trilogy THE STUARTS: LOVE, ART, WAR, shows Charles I growing up and finding love. It puts the vilified king in a different light. Under the wing of his precocious sister Elizabeth he blossoms and his interest in culture and the arts grows into a passion or some would say an obsession.

Fiction. Historical Fiction.

Michael Dean holds a history degree from Worcester College, Oxford, as well as an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Edinburgh University and an AIL in German translation. The Crooked Cross (Quaestor, 2000, 2009), Thorn about Spinoza and Rembrandt (Bluemoose Books, 2011), Magic City, a Bildungroman (Odyssey Press new edition 2017), and I, Hogarth (Duckworth-Overlook, 2012) are his novels. He's also published three e-books for Endeavour Press: The Enemy Within (2013), which is about Jewish resistance in the Netherlands during WWII, Hour Zero (2014), and Before the Darknesses (2015), which is about Walther Rathenau. He's also the author of a nonfiction book about Chomsky as well as more than thirty educational products.