Jay Holloway

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The Prang Codex - Jay Holloway Let us, Dear Reader, travel back to a Past Time of Romance and Legend. To Merrie Olde Englande and a time of Courtly Love, Knightly Valour and Daily Disappointment. The time is roughly the mid-twelfth century; around eleven fifty-five (almost lunch-time, or maybe time for a late working brunch in a nice trendy brasserie). ’Tis an age perceived vaguely through the swirling mists of murky time as The Dark Ages, and with good reason, whether because of the dark and secret nefarious deeds common thereabouts, or more likely the totally ineffectual rush-torch type lighting system they were lumbered with, the invention of the fluorescent tube being a mere speck on the distant horizon of the map of human invention. In quite possibly the most medieval part of England is buried the sombre castle of the self-styled King Egbert The Bold, the last remaining independent Saxon Monarch in England, due to a very nifty loophole in the law which will come to our attention later in the tale, and a man who could teach Hereward the Wake a thing or two about survival in twelfth century Norman England. King Egbert, known behind his back as King Egbert the Basically-Bloody-Terrifying, due to his hair-trigger temper and huge bristling Saxon handle-bar moustache; his unsettling habit of shouting into people’s faces from uncomfortably-close range at incredible volume; and his ingenious schemes for extracting monies from serfs and lords alike with scant regard for status, wealth or means. For no-one, it seems, is safe from his grasping claws or his unerringly accurate on-board cash-location radar system. Against this backdrop of dark-age consciousness and medieval catering are played the tales of the misadventures of Wizard Prang, graduate of the Thaddeus Q Susquehannah Postal University by a scant one percent above the minimum pass mark, and unwilling patsy in the King’s various schemes to increase his personal wealth and general standing in the greater world beyond his boundaries, for, secretly, ‘tis the King’s fondest wish to become a Medieval Mogul, a force to be reckoned with, and an important player in the game of life upon the greater span of the World’s stage, if only he could secure an influential honorary appointment at the Plantagenet Court alongside the new King Henry II, a monarch, ‘tis rumoured, with a temper to match his own. Wizard Prang, that walking testimonial to the woeful level of competence required to achieve a Susquehannah Diploma, and living embodiment of the difficult technique of snatching defeat from the very jaws of success. Read, enjoy! (about 106,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

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