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Lesley Gray

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Born

The United Kingdom

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http://www.thekingsjockey.com

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Fiction, Historical Fiction

Member Since

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With a full-time job in academic and educational publishing, I have spent the last six years snatching time, whether scribbling away in the early hours, grubbing around in libraries or attending courses to try and hone my writing. The final result is "The King's Jockey".

So why do this? It's a question I often ask myself, but the truth is that, like many people, although I had heard of the sacrifice made by the suffragette who ran out in front of the King's horse during the Derby of 1913, I knew next to nothing about the jockey. Who was he and how did this terrible event affect him?

There was little written about Bertie Jones, so I had to research most of my material. The more I found out, the more it made me wonder about where he had come ...more

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	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Lesley Gray (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 427,169 ratings — published 1838 — 1458 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joseph Henry Hatfield (Illustrator), S. Weir Mitchell (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 356,898 ratings — published 1892 — 1370 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Lesley Gray (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.30 avg rating — 325,898 ratings — published 1892 — 3952 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War of the Words by H.G. Wells, Henrique Alvim-Corrêa (Illustrator), Lesley Gray (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.83 avg rating — 349,060 ratings — published 1898 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suffragette (Illustrated and Annotated): My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst, Lesley Gray (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.15 avg rating — 2,560 ratings — published 1914 — 173 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King's Jockey really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars