New Book: The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

By Paterson Joseph (Author)

Author’s Note

This is an imaginative telling of the life of a Black man who breathed London’s air two hundred years before I walked its streets.

I was once timid about my place here in the UK, but researching Sancho’s story for the last twenty years – and more – has given me a deep sense of belonging, of a shared history with a nation that sometimes ignores, sometimes rejects, my people’s right to an equal role in its storytelling. More than anything, this book is an attempt to add to the growing canon of Black Historical Fiction. The plus side might be that readers seek further study into this growing area of research, both historical and artistic. I want to tell a story by the fireside that will enlighten, but more essentially, delight you.

This is the tale of a lucky African orphan, who despite being born in abject slavery, rose to become a leading light of the early abolitionist movement. A hero. A man. An African. An Artist. Erudite. Wise. Grand. Flawed.

“An absolutely thrilling, throat-catching wonder of a historical novel” STEPHEN FRY.

Available in Kindle and Hardback and Audiobook see amazon link