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1586: From her prison cell Mary Queen of Scots remembers…

On my desk is Alex Nye’s book For My Sins, a fascinating historical novel I’ve just finished reading. I recommend it to all people interested in Mary Stuart’s life. There are many books devoted to Mary Queen of Scots but this one is particularly moving since the narrator is Mary herself.

 

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June 6th, 2017 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Historical Fiction, History | Leave a comment

Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Kenilworth’: a strange blacksmith…

 

(Kenilworth by Walter Scott, French edition adapted by Emile Pech, Boivin & Cie Editeurs 1929)

Hi everybody,

I’m still reading Sir Walter Scott’s Kenilworth, greatly enjoying this travel back in time to Merry Old England in company of a colourful team of characters (*) and following with much anticipation […]

April 27th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

Re-discovering Sir Walter Scott’s novels: KENILWORTH…

 

What a good idea, Janice, to have drawn our attention to Kenilworth, one of the famous historical novels by Sir Walter Scott. I’m a great admirer of ‘The Magician of the North’ and I’ve not forgotten our promise to read all his books when we visited his home at Abbotsford, I […]

April 14th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment