The Five Year Queen (ePub)
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The year is 1537 and Mary of Guise, young, beautiful and widowed has been chosen as the reluctant bride of James Stewart, King of Scots. The marriage is designed to strengthen the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland. James leads a cultured renaissance court but on the border Henry VIII lurks, seeking an excuse to invade. The Protestant Reformation is tearing Europe apart. Mary must hold her marriage together in the face of drama and tragedy. She must survive, and survive she does, to become the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots.
This is the latest of Janet Walkinshaw's Scottish Reformation novels.
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
- 2016, Englisch
- Verlag: Janet Walkinshaw
- ISBN-10: 131176464X
- ISBN-13: 9781311764645
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2016
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