The Prang Codex - novel preview

General Fiction, Full Books, Humor

By Jay Holloway

Publisher : Lulu.com

ABOUT Jay Holloway

Jay Holloway

Description

This is an episodic collection of medieval tales set in the mid twelfth century, in the last remaining independent Saxon monarchy in Plantagenet England, due to a nifty loophole in the law. Medieval tales of dark deeds, underhand dealings, and horrible tuneless wassailing to hideous wailing crumhorns. A set of chronicles in which the King suffers visits from Short and Curly, the two mincing actors from the travelling show Theatre of the Absurd: Lorenz Lawne-Bowlyngge, the flamboyant interior designer & makeover expert: Dr Misaubin, the travelling apothecary and snake-oil man: the misguided owner of a henge-building franchise: Tull, the inventor of the Gardeners Claw: a money-grabbing Water-diviner: an itinerant Tiler: a bunch of homicidal German mercenaries: Joey Pantolooni, the leader of the worst circus on the planet, and many more.
Meet Griswolde Pauncefoote, the worst musician in the world: his brother, the Black Knight: Rijk van Dyjke, the ice sculptor: Max Hispano-Suiza, carriage-builder & dealer in dodgy second-hand carts: Leonardo van Tableaux, the hack tabloid artist: Archer, the Longbowman prepared to commit perjury on the the King's behalf: Dr. Placebo-Ganglion, the castle physician: Blacques Jacques a t'Acques, "French" Captain of the pirate sloop l'Esperance Perdu: Robin Hood: The Assassin Astreau-Turphe: and Henry II (real King).
Here, for the first time together, are extracts from Wizard Prang’s Journal, a chronicler clearly not in the same class as Samuel Pepys, together with the true catastrophic events behind each entry.

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