Only eighteen years old when she returned to Scotland to rule, the beautiful but unfortunate Mary Stuart was in dire need of protection: from the savage religious intolerance of the time, from scoundrels in high places, even from the men she injudiciously married....

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
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In 1649 Charles II left his exile in the Netherlands and sailed toScotland. Arriving at the small fishing village of Garmouth, he faced amixed reception from the minister of the Kirk.The exiled king was to remain in Scotland for a year, learning moreabout his northern...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-09-13

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The quashing of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 saw an end to the ambitions of the exiled house of Stuart. But somehow the young pretender, Prince Charles Edward, otherwise known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, manage to avoid arrest.For six extraordinary months the handsome...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-09-13

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The brutal murder of James I, King of Scots, at Perth in 1437 left hisseven-year-old son to rule over a troubled kingdom. Power-hungry lordsseized their chance to gain control over the boy-king James II and hisrealm.When young Alexander Lyon, son of the Thane of...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
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A casket of incriminating letters from Mary, Queen of Scots. The letters would be an instrument of persuasion - or blackmail as others might call it. Whoever held them had a hold over the James VI King of Scots, now also King James I of England.But for Andrew, seventh...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
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Little is known about Thomas Learmonth of Ercildoune, vassal and esquireof the Earl of Dunbar, poet and prophesier known as 'Thomas the Rhymer'.During the reign of the Scottish King Alexander III, a time when thesword ruled over all and the treachery of the powerful...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
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Half-Celt and half-Saxon, King David determined to take hold of hisbackward, patriarchal, strife-ridden country and, against all the odds,pushed and dragged it into the forefront of Christendom's advancingnations.This is a story of independence, single-mindedness and...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-09-13

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Alexander III of Scotland was just seven years old when he inherited thethrone. South of the border, England's King Henry III saw this as hischance to assert his paramountcy over the kingdom. At the age of ten,the boy was married to Henry's daughter.But through the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-09-13

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Seventh son of the penurious Laird of Balfour, the fiercely ambitiousDavid Beaton was determined to rise in the world - by whatever meansavailable. Never one to be burdened by scruples, he cynically used theChurch for his own ends to become one of the most able...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
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Laird of a small estate, Will Alexander of Menstrie, poet and tutor, wasa man of modest ambitions. But when James VI learned of his poeticgenius, the king had other plans for him.In 1603, when James VI of Scotland became James I of England, hesummoned Will to London...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-09-13

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In 1745 the Highlanders limped away from the bitter field of Culloden. Soon the Duke of Cumberland was offering a huge sum for the capture of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, dead or alive. Duncan MacGregor, great-nephew of Rob Roy, volunteers to join the small band of...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-09-13

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This is the second book in Nigel Tranter's trilogy of novels about the MacGregor clan. In 1715, declared an outlaw by the Secretary of State, the Duke of Montrose and the Duke of Cumberland, Rob Roy MacGregor, steadfast supporter of the Stuart cause, leaves home and...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-09-13

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This is the third and final book in The Norman Trilogy and tells the story of the last days of the reign of Henry I.His son and wife are dead, and Henry hastily remarries a woman more than thirty years his junior in the hope of producing a male heir and securing the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-09-13

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Henry, the youngest of The Conquerer's sons assumes the mantle of The Lion of Justice.The death of The Conqueror left three sons to inherit his power and his wealth. Normandy for Robert, England for Rufus and forHenry, the youngest, five thousand pounds of silver.The...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-09-13

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England, 1070.Renowned for his exploits, the knight Tancred has become a lord in his own right, with men to command and a manor to call home on the turbulent Welsh Marches.But his hard-fought gains are soon placed in peril, as the Normans’ newly won kingdom falls under...

Editeur : Preface Digital
Parution : 2012-09-13
Collection : The Conquest
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A story of greed, duplicity, romance and intrigue, and a mystery said to have brought down the french monarchy.The world shook at the eruption of the French Revolution, a revolution, some say, precipitated by a single factor: the theft of the Diamond Necklace which, it...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-09-13

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A wonderful blend of history and romance with dramaEven Tamar's mother believed that the child had been forced on her by the Devil when, against her judgement, she was persuaded to attend a midsummer sabbat of witches. In a world of superstition and intolerance, the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-09-13

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Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane returns with her dazzling new historical novel, The House of Velvet and Glass, set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic.1915, and the ghosts of the dead haunt a...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-09-13

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'Unashamedly fun, will appeal to fans of Kate Mosse and Dan Brown... full of twisting passageways, wall tapestries complete with spy holes, and all manner of skulduggery' NEW BOOKS MAGAZINEIt is 1498, and the whole of Venice is abuzz. Hidden somewhere in the...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-09-04

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It is 1947, and Evie and Martin Mitchell have just arrived in the Indian village of Masoorla with their five-year-old son. But cracks soon appear in their marriage as Evie struggles to adapt to her new life, and Martin fails to bury unbearable wartime memories.When Evie...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-09-04

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