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Meet the Storyteller: Richard Platt, GatheringBooks December Feature
We are truly very privileged to have award-winning British author, Richard Platt in GatheringBooks for our December Meet the Storyteller Feature. Ever since I discovered his diary series (Roman Diary, Castle Diary, Pirate Diary, Egyptian Diary) I became understandably enamored with this highly creative author who managed to churn out a historical fiction (and a […]
Castle Diary, The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page as Transcribed by Richard Platt and Illuminated by Chris Riddell
The setting of this book is in 1285 when the world was ruled by kings and queens, barons, earls, dukes, bishops and abbots, knights, noblewomen, priests and chaplains – what we now recognize as feudalism. However, instead of presenting ordinary boring facts about how people lived in Western Europe during this period, Richard Platt has […]
