Forty Testoons
- Publisher
- Breakwater Books Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1999
- Category
- Historical, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550811452
- Publish Date
- Mar 1999
- List Price
- $2.00
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Description
Forty Testoons is his third novel. This is a novel of political intrigue, spies and treason in medieval Newfoundland. The year is 1504 and father Ralph Fletcher, a young priest, is paid forty silver coins called testoons to stay and minister to the winter crew while the summer fleet retu s to England. He becomes swept up in intrigue as the winter crew attempts to depose King Henry VII of England in favor of a Yorkist pretender, Father Ralph’s role in the plot becomes clear - he is to sanctify the actions while striving to convert the native Beothuk to Christianity.
About the author
Alan Fisk was born in 1950, and lived in Singapore, Austria, and England before coming to Newfoundland in 1972, where he was first a graduate student at Memorial University and then an economist in the Newfoundland Public Service. He has had many magazine articles and short stories published in countries all over the world.