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Queen & Country: A Hew Cullan Mystery
Shirley McKay
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Description for Queen & Country: A Hew Cullan Mystery
Paperback. Queen & Country: A Hew Cullen Mystery Series: The Hew Cullen Mysteries. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
1587. Three years after his enforced departure to London, Hew is reconciled with King James VI and recalled to Scotland. He elopes to St Andrews with a young Englishwoman. The death of Mary, Queen of Scots has unleashed a wave of anti-English sentiment among the Scottish people, and fear and confusion in the king himself. James will grant his blessing to their controversial marriage on the condition that Hew discovers what lies behind a painting cunningly contrived to prick the young king's conscience - an anamorphic death's-head with his mother's face. Meanwhile in St Andrews, the death of a painter ... Read more
1587. Three years after his enforced departure to London, Hew is reconciled with King James VI and recalled to Scotland. He elopes to St Andrews with a young Englishwoman. The death of Mary, Queen of Scots has unleashed a wave of anti-English sentiment among the Scottish people, and fear and confusion in the king himself. James will grant his blessing to their controversial marriage on the condition that Hew discovers what lies behind a painting cunningly contrived to prick the young king's conscience - an anamorphic death's-head with his mother's face. Meanwhile in St Andrews, the death of a painter ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846973437
SKU
V9781846973437
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99-2
About Shirley McKay
Shirley McKay was born in Tynemouth but now lives with her family in Fife. At the age of fifteen she won the Young Observer playwriting competition, her play being performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. She went on to study English and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews before attending Durham University for postgraduate study in Romantic and ... Read more
Reviews for Queen & Country: A Hew Cullan Mystery
'This is a richly imagined tale, very well researched'
Historical Novel Society
'This is a historical fiction series that crosses the gender divide, adding intrigue to the excellent sense of time and place... I defy anyone to read that last page without finding something in their eye that makes it water'
The Bookbag
Historical Novel Society
'This is a historical fiction series that crosses the gender divide, adding intrigue to the excellent sense of time and place... I defy anyone to read that last page without finding something in their eye that makes it water'
The Bookbag