Willoughbyland

Parker has trawled the letters and literature, and travelled out to Suriname, and the result is a miniature masterpiece….this is a truly extraordinary tale and, in Parker’s hands, it’s beautifully told. With great wit and scholarship he reveals — just for a moment — a cruel and curious world, before it vanishes again beneath the trees. * The Spectator *An excellent account…Willoughbyland is popular history at its best. * Literary Review *A fascinating tale of courage and desperation, cruelty and betrayal, and it was all sparked by the search for the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. * Event, Mail on Sunday *The author has written several other highly enjoyable histories of the Caribbean, and he is on fine and colourful form here. * Sunday Times *A fascinating tale…Matthew Parker is an entertaining historian who has produced a lively account. * Daily Express *[T]he long-obscure but intriguing Willoughbyland can now console itself that it has, in this frequently fascinating book, a history it deserves. – Catherine Nixey * Times *An odd, bygone moment in England’s political dreaming, rendered expertly. – John Lewis-Stempel * Sunday Express *[A]n enjoyable account of a neglected moment in the emergence of the British empire. – Robert J Mayhew * BBC History Magazine *‘An excellent book throwing light on a fascinating period in history… An enjoyable read… Impeccably well-researched.’ – Paul Newham * Bookbag *

MATTHEW PARKER’s acclaimed books include Goldeneye- Where Bond Was Born - Ian Fleming’s Jamaica; Hell’s Gorge; Monte Cassino and The Sugar Barons. Born in Central America in 1970, he spent part of his childhood in the West Indies. He has written for most British newspapers, as well as History Today, BBC History Magazine and the Literary Review. He lectures around the world and contributes to television and radio programmes in the UK and America.

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