Daughters of the Doge (Richard Stocker)
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I remain indebted to Mike Barnard and his formative team at Macmillan New Writing for creating the MNW concept and for accepting In the Shadow of Lady Jane as one of the fourteen books to be published during the first year of its existence. Sophie Portas’s hard work on marketing the hardback edition has been rewarded by a paperback version a year later, for which I am grateful. It seems ‘the Ryanair of publishing’ works after all.
Daughters of the Doge is the first ‘second novel’ by an MNW writer to be published and for this I am grateful to Will Atkins and Maria Rejt for their continuing faith in me. Further thanks are due to Will Atkins, who, as my editor, has steered me and the manuscript to where we are today; both, I believe, much improved by the process.
This book is dedicated to Sheila, still my Yasmeen after thirty-eight years.
Edward Charles has been a university lecturer, a management consultant and a City and international businessman. He lives in Devon, where he writes, paints and tends his vineyard.
Also by Edward Charles
in the Richard Stocker series
In the Shadow of Lady Jane
First published 2007 by Macmillan New Writing
This edition published 2008 by Pan Books
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