The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham At The Court Of Elizabeth I
by John Cooper (Faber, £9.99)
If Mary, Queen of Scots had had a Francis Walsingham on her team, history would have been very different. The man known as Elizabeth I's spymaster, born into a new generation "who had never known how to pray for the pope", was crafty, ruthless and brilliant, as this excellent biography shows.
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