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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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