Pirate Queen

The Life of Grace O'Malley

Pirate Queen
Judith Cook
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 208pg
6 May 2021 UK
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9781780277158
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In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O' Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plundering, kidnapping, murder and mayhem came to a close in 1586, when she was captured and sentenced to hang. Saved from the scaffold by none other than Queen Elizabeth herself - another powerful woman in a man' s world - Grace' s life took another extraordinary turn, when it was rumoured she had become intelligencer for the queen' s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham. Was this the price of her freedom? Judith Cook explores this and other questions about the life and times of this remarkable woman in a fascinating, thrilling and impeccably researched book.
Well-known for her columns in the Guardian' s women' s page and as an anti-nuclear campaigner (she founded the organisation Voice of Women after the Cuban missile crisis of 1962), Judith Cook was also a prolific biographer and investigative journalist. Her subjects included J. B. Priestley, Daphne du Maurier and Hilda Murrell, the anti-nuclear campaigner who died in mysterious circumstances1985. Born in Manchester, Judith Cook lived for many years in Cornwall, where she died in 2004.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781780277158
Published: 6 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Birlinn
Publisher: Birlinn General
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 208

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