OK, the first book in the Yale Trilogy - The Doubtful Diaries of Wicked Mistress Yale - will appear as a Goodreads Giveaway (five signed copies) in a couple of days. But since only readers in the USA and Canada can enter (not sure why), if anybody here in Britain (or anywhere else for that matter) wants to take part in an independent draw, just let me know, either here on on my e-mail: davemccall@davidebsworth.org
Elihu Yale may have given his name to one of America's greatest universities, but to poor Catherine he bequeathed nothing but the slur of branding her a "wicked wife."
The Doubtful Diaries of Wicked Mistress Yale picks up their story in old Madras in 1672, the beginning of an epic journey that will take them through some of the most turbulent episodes in British and Indian history.
The story of Elihu Yale - England's first nabob, philanthropist and Indian slave trader - told through the eyes of his feisty, heroic and defiant wife.