The Queen's Lender
by Jean Findlay
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George Heriot, jeweller to King James VI, 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. James gives Shakespeare his first secure position. To calm the perfidious religious tensions in the country, he commissions his translation of the Bible. He creates the Union Jack, called after himself. George becomes wealthier than the king as he sets 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.
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'Jean Findlay assembles a fascinating man from a strange collection of fragments with style, fittingly enough, and wit.'
- Ian Bell The Herald
‘...first-rate, playful, moving'
- The Times
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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. This is her first novel which has already won the Hawthornden Fellowship 2018 and Lavigny International Writer’s Fellowship 2019 which allowed the writer to do extensive historical research into the period.
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- Publisher Scotland Street Press
- Publication Date December 2021
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781910895559
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 12.99 GBP
- Pages200
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Copyright Year2021
- Dimensions198x130 mm
- Illustrationno
- SeriesInternational Women's Series
- Series Part6
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