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The queen's lender
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- Book Synopsis
- George Heriot, jeweller to King James VI and I, moves with the Court from Edinburgh to London to take over the English throne. It is 1603. Life is a Babel of languages and glittering new wealth. The Scottish court speaks Danish, German, Middle Scots, French and Latin. King James gives Shakespeare his first secure position, and to calm the perfidious religious tensions, he commissions his translation of the Bible.George becomes wealthier than the king as he creates a fashion for hat jewels and mingles with Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Johnson, Inigo Jones and the mysterious ambassador Luca Von Modrich... However both king and courtier bow before the phenomenal power invested in their wives.
- About The Author
- Jean Findlay is the author of Chasing Lost Time - the Life of CK Scott Moncrieff, Soldier, Spy and Translator published in 2014 by Chatto and Windus, London, and by FSG, New York. The Queen's Lender was awarded the Hawthornden Fellowship 2018 and Lavigny International Writer's Fellowship 2019.
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- ISBN
- 9781910895672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Scotland Street Press, (30 April 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 201
- Weight
- 210 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 197 x 20 mm
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