Matthew Plampin in conversation with Elizabeth Fremantle

Join us at Maldon Books for an evening with authors Matthew Plampin and Elizabeth Fremantle. Matthew and Elizabeth will be discussing their new novels together at our bookshop and signing books afterwards.

Date: Thursday 31st July

Time: 7pm

Tickets: £5 (includes a glass of fizz or non-alcholic beverage)

or £22 (includes a copy of either Matthew or Elizabeth's book)

Nearest car park: White Horse Lane

Book tickets in store or online

If you would like a signed copy of either books but aren’t able to attend, do get in touch with us at maldonbooksltd@gmail.com

About Matthew Plampin and 'These Wicked Devices'

Rome, 1650. The streets are teeming as thousands of pilgrims flood in for the Holy Jubilee, but behind the gilded façade of the Vatican, power is unravelling. Donna Olimpia Maidalchini has long kept Pope Innocent X under her thumb, but as loyalties shift, her enemies close in.
And her most dangerous opponents may be those she deems too weak to matter. Two destitute nuns arrive, fleeing the ruined city of Castro and each carrying secrets that could destroy them. Meanwhile, the assistant to the famed Spanish artist Diego Velázquez is drawn into a perilous conspiracy – one that could bring Italy to its knees, and against which his own desperate ambitions seem to count for nothing.
As the sweltering summer heat rises, survival, not salvation, becomes the ultimate goal – and in this world of sin, saints almost never survive.

Matthew Plampin is the author of several highly acclaimed historical novels, most recently Will and Tom and Mrs Whistler. He has a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art and has worked as a lecturer, tour guide and children's author. He lives in London with his wife and son.

About Elizabeth Fremantle and 'Sinners'

A young noblewoman accused of murder, awaits execution. Imprisoned in the Corte Savella, she has captured the hearts and sympathy of all Rome...

This is the true and tragic tale of Beatrice Cenci. Murder most foul or vengeance most just?Helpless victim or resolute heroine?

Rome, 1599. Beatrice yearns to escape the clutches of her abusive father and determined to find a way back to Rome, enlists the help of Olimpio, the castle’s keeper. Soon the love that grows between them will transform Beatrice’s fortunes, for better and for worse...

History has sold her short. She is no doe-eyed victim of her father’s brutality, nor the cunning murderer who plotted her father’s demise.

No, this Beatrice - a woman pregnant by her lover, incarcerated in a remote castle by her father, and brim-full of white-hot rage - is both innocent and guilty, saint and sinner. And she will stand tall in the face of the violence of men, no matter the cost.

Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor historical novels: Firebrand (formerly Queen’s Gambit), Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower. As E.C. Fremantle she has written two historical thrillers: The Poison Bed and The Honey and the Sting. Her most recent novel, Disobedient, is a feminist retelling of the life of seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi. She lives in London.