Lochleven (ePub)
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Lochleven Castle is the home of Margaret Erskine, mistress of James, King of Scots. Their son, Lord James Stewart grows up knowing he can never be king, but Margaret is determined nothing shall stand in the way of his ambition. Surviving through the turmoil of the 16th century Scottish Reformation he achieves ultimate power as regent, king in all but name.
But then, unexpectedly, his half-sister, the young Mary, Queen of Scots, is widowed and returns to Scotland determined to rule in her own right. And Margaret, who hated the girl's mother Marie de Guise for usurping her position, will make sure the young queen's authority still depends on Lord James, Earl of Moray. Lochleven Castle becomes the prison of the young Queen, and Margaret becomes her jailor.
This is the third in Walkinshaw's trilogy of novels about the Scottish Reformation. The others are Knox's Wife and The Five Year Queen.
Some of the short stories have won prizes, e.g. the Radio Clyde Short story competition, MacDuff Crime Short story (judged by Ian Rankin), and Writing Magazine's Crime Short Story competition. She has been awarded the Writer of Writers prize by that magazine. She has won the Scottish Association of Writers shield for a radio play (the play was subsequently broadcast on Radio 4). One of her stage plays was joint winner of the Rowantree Theatre Company play competition, and she has been a finalist twice in the Waterford Film Festival competition for a short film script.
She has been able to indulge a lifelong obsession with the history of religion and in particular with the Reformation in her novel Knox's Wife, in which she recounts the events of the Scottish Reformation through the eyes of the wife of the principal mover and shaker. This was meant to be a one-off, but she became so deeply engrossed in the 16th century and the people of the time that she has now published The Five Year Queen, a novel about Mary of Guise and her marriage to James V, King of Scots. Janet has now begun work on a third novel set in the same period.
Janet considers herself privileged to live in Wigtown, Scotland's national book town. 'Everybody is an avid reader, and every second person you meet is a writer, so I am surrounded by congenial and like-minded people,' she says.
- Autor: Janet Walkinshaw
- 2018, Englisch
- Verlag: Janet Walkinshaw
- ISBN-10: 1370608470
- ISBN-13: 9781370608478
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2018
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