I'm in Ferrara, Lucrezia Borgia d'Este has just miscarried a stillborn daughter.
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- SonjaMarie
- Bibliomaniac
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- Location: Vashon, WA
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The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum
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Original Join Date: Mar 2006
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Original Join Date: Mar 2006
Previous Amount of Posts: 2,517
Books Read In 2014: 109 - June: 17 (May: 17)
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It's approx. 1625 and I'm in the bowels of Fast Castle which is perched precariously half way down a cliff on the south east coast of Scotland. I'm with David Gray who is, on the instructions of his uncle Andrew, Lord Gray Sheriff of Angus, searching for the infamous Casket Letters of Mary Queen of Scots. King James has previously threatened to remove Lord Gray from the very lucrative position of sheriff and,on discovering the Casket Letters, Lord Gray, in turn, threatens to blackmail King James. The King fears that amongst the love letters which his mother Queen Mary wrote to her lover Bothwell, is a possible admission that the father of king James is not her former murdered husband Lord Darnley but her Italian secretary David Rizzio. The King has previously been successfully blackmailed over the possible existence of this letter which nobody has actually seen and is in dread of it surfacing as it would mean that he is illegitimate and would be removed from the throne.
Nigel Tranter knows how to tell an exciting,enjoyable tale as in "Mail Royal"
Nigel Tranter knows how to tell an exciting,enjoyable tale as in "Mail Royal"
- Steve Anderson
- Scribbler
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- Joined: April 2011
- Location: Portland, Oregon USA
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A shoddy apartment in 1950s Berlin. Bernie Gunther's CIA handlers just got duped by Soviet agents, and they're whisking Bernie into East Berlin through an underground passage. Caught between two rocks again!
http://www.stephenfanderson.com | Novelist, writer, literary translator
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
I'm on a sugar and cotton plantation in 1859 on St Simons Island in Georgia.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Watching Warwick and Margaret of Anjou making whoopee and Edward of Lancaster and laughing my arse off.
Wouldn't you just love to know what i'm reading?
Wouldn't you just love to know what i'm reading?
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be