Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
YOU SAVE £9.30
- Condition: Brand new
- UK Delivery times: Usually arrives within 2 - 3 working days
- UK Shipping: Fee starts at £2.39. Subject to product weight & dimension
Couldn't load pickup availability
Excellent- More about The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
The Scapegoat is a captivating study of the psychodrama of power, offering a novelists touch and a historians vivid sense of period and social change. It dramatises the complex and glittering Duke of Buckingham and the political and sexual intrigue of the court of James I, combining the instincts and talents of a novelist with a historians vivid sense of period and social change.
Format: Hardback
Length: 640 pages
Publication date: 10 October 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- The Scapegoat brilliantly dramatises the complex and glittering Duke of Buckingham and .
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic, seductively detailed biography The Scapegoat by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. A captivating study of the psychodrama of power, The Scapegoat is a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year" and a Daily Telegraph "Book of the Year."
As King James I's favorite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, right-hand man and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skilled player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth-century royal and political life.
With a novelist's touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Francis Bacon's empiricism and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country.
From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, The Scapegoat navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today.
The Scapegoat brilliantly dramatises the complex and glittering Duke of Buckingham and .
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic, seductively detailed biography The Scapegoat by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. A captivating study of the psychodrama of power, The Scapegoat is a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year" and a Daily Telegraph "Book of the Year."
As King James I's favorite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, right-hand man and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skilled player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth-century royal and political life.
With a novelist's touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Francis Bacon's empiricism and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country.
From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, The Scapegoat navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today.
Weight: 1046g
Dimension: 241 x 164 x 47 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008126551
This item can be found in:
UK and International shipping information
UK and International shipping information
UK Delivery and returns information:
- Delivery within 2 - 3 days when ordering in the UK.
- Shipping fee for UK customers from £2.39. Fully tracked shipping service available.
- Returns policy: Return within 30 days of receipt for full refund.
International deliveries:
Shulph Ink now ships to Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, India, Luxembourg Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, United States of America.
- Delivery times: within 5 - 10 days for international orders.
- Shipping fee: charges vary for overseas orders. Only tracked services are available for most international orders. Some countries have untracked shipping options.
- Customs charges: If ordering to addresses outside the United Kingdom, you may or may not incur additional customs and duties fees during local delivery.
