Dacre's War [electronic resource]
Goring, Rosemary2015
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Praise for After Flodden 'A swashbuckling tale in the best tradition of adventure fiction ... charged with melancholy and menace' - Times 'A highly readable tale that beautifully evokes the chaos in the aftermath of the disastrous battle' - Scottish Field 'A well-crafted tale which drives forward with unremitting pace' - Scotland on Sunday 'Very good indeed, and hugely enjoyable' - Allan Massie, Scotsman 'A compelling story that weaves deftly amongst historical fact and fiction' - We Love This Book '[A] beautiful and highly acclaimed debut novel' - Observer 'A fast-paced adventure story that will delight fans of the genre' - The Lady 'Goring has a fine story to tell, a keen sense of place, and the ability to evoke mood. It's a compelling and gripping novel' - Scotsman Dacre's War is a story of personal and political vengeance. Ten years after the battle of Flodden, Adam Crozier, head of his clan and of an increasingly powerful alliance of Borderers, learns for sure that it was Lord Thomas Dacre - now the most powerful man in the north of England - who ordered his father's murder. He determines to take his revenge. As a fighting man, Crozier would like nothing better than to bring Dacre down face to face but his wife Louise advises him that he must use more subtle methods. So he sets out to engineer Dacre's downfall by turning the machinery of the English court against him. A vivid and fast-moving tale of political intrigue and heartache, Dacre's War is set against the backdrop of the Scottish and English borders, a land where there is never any chance of peace.
Main title:
Dacre's War [electronic resource] / Rosemary Goring
Author:
Goring, Rosemary, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Birlinn, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Rosemary Goring was born in Dunbar and studied social and economic history at the University of St Andrews. She was the literary editor of Scotland on Sunday, followed by a brief spell as editor of Life & Work, the Church of Scotland's magazine, before returning to newspapers as literary editor of the Herald, and later also of the Sunday Herald. In 2007 she published Scotland: The Autobiography: 2000 Years of Scottish History By Those Who Saw it Happen, which has since been published in America and Russia. Rosemary is the author of After Flodden.
ISBN:
9780857908513
Language:
English
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BRN:
2303815