For attendees to the Ashland Public Library Event with author Philippa Langley on August 7, the author will be signing bookplates for every book ordered through Aesop's Fable.

The official inside story of the discovery of the bones of Richard III now a major motion picture starring Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan

In 2012, the remains of a man with a curving spine who was possibly killed in battle were discovered underneath the paving stones of a parking lot in Leicester, England. Philippa Langley, spurred on by the work of the historian Michael Jones, led the team that uncovered the remains certain that she had found the bones of King Richard III. When DNA verification later confirmed that the skeleton was, indeed, that of England’s most controversial monarch, her discovery made newspapers worldwide. Part detective story, part history, The Lost King tells, for the first time, the story of Philippa Langley’s unflagging search for the grave of Richard III. After her history making discovery, Richard III’s reputation buried for centuries under a mound of Tudor propaganda began to be rethought. Was King Richard III the hateful character of Shakespeare’s play or a monarch more interested in the needs of the common people? The Lost King is the astonishing true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on England’s most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial monarchs in England's history. Now, the true story of Philippa Langley and her search for Richard III comes to the big screen in a film starring Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan called The Lost King made by the same team that made Philomena.

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (March 28, 2023)
• ISBN-13: 978-1250862792