More Foreign Success for English Author
01/17/12By Linda Carlino
English author succeeds in breaking into European book market with her historical fiction trilogy.
The second book of Linda Carlino’s Hapsburg Trilogy, A Matter of Pride, was published in Portugal on January 10, 2012. The first book of the trilogy, That Other Juana was published there in October, 2009. In 1557 a prematurely aged, ill, and very irritable Emperor Charles V retires to a secluded monastery in western Spain. He brings memories of Barbara, his years in power, and military campaigns – mostly failures. His major domo freely speaks his mind, other characters tell tragicomic anecdotes and an all-knowing narrator makes sarcastic and funny observations. It all makes for a wonderful story - sometimes tearful, sometimes hilarious. Juana founded the Hapsburg dynasties of Spain and Austria but her life was ruined by three men: her husband a blatant womaniser and political schemer; her father who betrayed and isolated her; and her son who imprisoned her for a further thirty years. Her spirited resistance to this lifetime of barbaric persecution earned her, unfairly, the infamous nickname Juana la Loca, Joan the Mad.
A Matter of Pride (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor)
That Other Juana (Juana la Loca)
Linda’s Kindle and print books are available from Amazon.
More Books by Linda Carlino
A Matter of Pride
Ana (Ana of Austria)
Wives & Other Women
That Other Juana
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