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The year is 1537. Mary of Guise, young, beautiful and widowed, is the reluctant bride of James V, King of Scots. The marriage is arranged to strengthen the alliance between France and Scotland. On the border Henry VIII seeks a reason to invade. The Reformation is sweeping through Europe. In Scotland Mary finds a cultured, lively but quarrelsome court. She has to use all her wits to save her marriage and survive. Survive she does, to become the...

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A grandmother runs away from home and finds freedom, an actress dons a frothy hat, a poet searches for Bohemia. There are some clergymen, some nuns, and more than a few criminals. Journeys, real or metaphorical, are a common theme. Some stories are funny, some sad, some long, a few very short. These are tales to dip into, re-read and savour. Award winning writer Janet Walkinshaw collects here for the first time stories which have been previous...

Tudor England: Marjorie Bowes, the daughter of a rich and powerful family, grows up in a time of civil turmoil caused by the religious reforms of King Henry VIII. She meets John Knox, a renegade Scottish preacher in exile from his own country, who has been appointed one of the chaplains of the boy King Edward VI. They fall in love, to the consternation of her family. When Mary Tudor becomes queen and vows to rid England of Protestants, Knox fl...