A Game of Sorrows
Alexander Seaton 2
$22.42
- Paperback
398 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2011
Summary
Second historical thriller in the Alexander Seaton series sweeps the hero back to his roots in Ulster, and a family living under a curse and riven with long-held secrets
Aberdeen, 1628.
Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family in Ireland. The family has been placed under a poet’s curse, threateni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849162449 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849162441 |
| Author: | S.G. MacLean |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 398 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 291g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Alexander Seaton |
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Critics Review
‘A fine, rich, beautiful historical thriller - literate, engaging and moving’ Manda Scott.– Manda Scott
Pacy and literate. Such is the quality of the recreation, not only of the reeking ebb and flow of everyday life but also of the period mindset that it’s easy to believe Satan is walking abroad … accomplished and thought-provoking - Guardian
Richly laden with historical detail but MacLean wears her scholarship lightly. Flashes of humour ensure that the sympathy remains with Seaton, an entertaining narrator. An absorbing foray into Scottish history - Times Literary SupplementThe vivid evocation of a particular time and place by an author whose uncle was Alistair MacLean and who is herself a historian specialising in 16th and 17th century Scotland. She has used her gifts to the full to create a truly memorable and exciting read - Historical Novels ReviewS.G. MacLean
S.G. MacLean (Shona) has a PhD in History from the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of two historical crime series - the Alexander Seaton series, set in seventeenth century Scotland and the Damian Seeker series, set in Oliver Cromwell’s London, for which she has twice won the CWA Historical Dagger. Her standalone Jacobite thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness, was Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2023. Shona lives in Conon Bridge, Scotland.
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