Martyr's Crown

In 869, a grey wolf guarded the body of a murdered king in an East Anglian wood. It never stopped watching.The Martyr's Crown is a black-and-white graphic novel that follows the English crown across more than eleven hundred years: from Edmund the Martyr and Alfred in the marshes, through the Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, the Black Death, Agincourt, the Princes in the Tower, the Tudors, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the execution of Charles I, to the Great Fire of London, the German Georges, Victoria, two world wars, Elizabeth II and the coronation of Charles III in 2023.Told in short, sharp captions and bold ink-style art across nearly 400 panels, it is history as drama: the murders and miracles, the battles and betrayals, the crowns won on battlefields and lost on scaffolds, all seen, now and then, through the eyes of the wolf.Prologue and Books I to VIII, complete in one volume. Fixed-layout ebook, best read on a tablet or large screen.The illustrations were created with AI image generation (Midjourney) under the author's direction. The story and text are by the author.