Description

1592.

Robert Carey, eighth son of Lord Hunsdon, has – to his servants’ dismay – abandoned Queen Elizabeth I’s court and is heading north to take up the post of Deputy Warden of the English West March, a lawless badlands, peopled by cattle-rustlers, horse-thieves, arsonists, kidnappers and murderers created by centuries of Anglo-Scottish conflict. Carey, in his lace-collared, pearl-sashed courtly finery, will be expected to bring order to this bloody flux.

Plunging readers straight into the raucous world of late sixteenth-century border reivers and unfettered Elizabethan intrigue, Guns in the North, the first chronicle of Sir Robert Carey’s adventures, collecting the novels A Famine of Horses, A Season of Knives and A Surfeit of Guns under one volume.

A Famine of Horses (c) 1994.
A Season of Knives (c) 1995.
A Surfeit of Guns (c) 1996.

Publisher Review

'A lively, lifelike adventure that just happens to feature some of the most famous people in the history of drama' Booklist. 'A Chisholm novel will offer an unforgettable Elizabethan pilgrimage' Kirkus.