Lionel Sharpe

The first ever biography of Lionel Sharpe, the man who fought for the separation of powers, the rule of law and the supremacy of parliament. It is sometimes brutal, sometimes artistic, sometimes lewd, sometimes poetical and somewhat political. It explores literary form and challenges social mores. We meet with joy, passion, love and laughter; we also encounter hate and sexual loathing and infinite loneliness. We twist the mother lode, scoop deeper and deeper into a mine of despair and finite oblivion. But we emerge crying, 'liberty!' In Lionel Sharpe, the reader will see the sweet lion, lion, lion hit freedom's sweet spot. Although Lionel Sharpe enabled democracy to flower, he is unknown. We will tremble because for Lionel Sharpe one phrase blooms: The lion's kiss fell on open lips.

"Lionel Sharpe was 'The malice of the age' and he was coming for them, for the killers of Buckingham, for free speech and for the common good. He would fight against the absolutist vision that King Charles 1st was trying to impose on England. He lived discreetly, quietly hidden away in the shadows, but the King heard him roar his silent no."

Lionel Sharpe was beautiful and damned; he gave you individual freedom by destroying individual freedom; he gave you love and fear; he gave his soul to heaven and hell.