Book description
Based on contemporary documents and histories, this book paints a
picture of Mary that sees her neither as a Catholic martyr, nor as a
husband-murdering adulteress, but as a young girl adrift in the
dangerous seas of sixteenth-century politics.
Roderick Graham was educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh
and Edinburgh University before serving with the Royal Army Education
Corps as Staff Officer (Education) East Africa Command. He subsequently
enjoyed a long and varied career in television and radio as a writer,
freelance director and producer, and worked for a period as Head of
Drama for BBC TV Scotland. He has also taught writing and directing at
Napier and Leeds Metropolitan Universities, Edinburgh College of Art and
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He is the author of the
critically acclaimed John Knox: Democrat (Hale, 2001) and The Great
Infidel: A Life of David Hume. He lives in Edinburgh.
