Southside’s historic role finds new voice
But there’s more to the breezy, light reading that makes the torrid, tragic and, sometimes, terrifying life of this well-documented historical character.
Can another historic tome have anything more to say about the regal figure that has not already been said? Perhaps not, but it can be said in a different way and that is what the author has managed to do, make light reading of a hefty historic biography.
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It broadens the parameters of geographical boundaries such as the Battle of Langside and ‘The Great Escape’ and dusts off the cobwebs of stories such as The Casket Letters episode.