England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens - Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her. But she also had many enemies - men who said: 'The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth.'
Tim Vicary is a university teacher at the Norwegian Study Centre at the university of York, England. In addition to the three crime and legal thrillers in 'The Trials of Sarah Newby' series, he has written historical novels, children's books, and about twenty graded readers for foreign learners of English in the Oxford Bookworms series, published by Oxford University Press. In 2010 one of these, Titanic, was the winner in its category for the Language Learner Literature Award for the Extensive Reading Foundation, and another one, The Everest Story, is a finalist this year.
Tim lives in the English countryside, near York. When he's not writing he likes horse-riding, cycling, and swimming. Over the past year, perhaps because he's become a grandfather, he has become fascinated by, amongst other things, dinosaurs, and an OUP book about Dinosaurs will come out later this year.
His website is timvicary.com
