Isabella Braveheart of France by Colin Falconer

She was taught to obey. Now she has learned to rebel.

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Isabella is raised in the court of Phillip the Handsome in Paris ...

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She is just twelve years old when she marries Edward II of England.

The young queen believes in the love songs of the troubadours and her own exalted destiny - but she

finds reality very different.

For the young princess it is love at first sight ...

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But Edward has a secret that threatens to tear their marriage - and England apart.

Who is Piers Gaveston - and why is his presence in the king’s court about to plunge England into civil war?

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Edward lurches from one disaster to the next, the controversy over his ‘favourite’ destabilizes his throne.

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In conflict with Robert the Bruce and even his own

barons, the King abandons her at lonely Tynemouth Priory, with the Scots just hours

away.

It is here she makes her fateful decision.

Photo Chris McKenna

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From a girl she was taught to obey. But as she grows to a

woman in the deadly maelstrom of Edward’s court, she will learn

to rebel.

She must decide between obedience and a life unfulfilled - or one breath-taking gamble that will change the course of history. She flees to France and raises an

army with her lover.

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This is the story of Isabella, the only woman ever to invade England - and seize the throne from her husband.

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Isabella is the little known story of the one invasion the English never talk about.

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She returns and exacts a fearful revenge on her

enemies.

But is there one more secret in the dungeons of Berekely Castle -still kept to this day?

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Isabella. Was she a saint or a she wolf?

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Meet Colin Falconer

Born in north London, Colin  worked for many years in TV and radio and freelanced for many of Australia's leading newspapers and magazines. He has been a novelist for the last twenty years, with his work published widely in the UK, US and Europe. His books have been sold in translation in Brazil, Belgium, the Czech republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain and Turkey.

He travels regularly to research his novels and his quest for authenticity led him to run with the bulls in Pamplona, pursue tornadoes across Oklahoma and black witches across Mexico, go cage shark diving in South Africa and get tear gassed in a riot in La Paz. He also completed a nine hundred kilometre walk of the camino in Spain.  

He lived for many years near Margaret River in WA, helped raise two beautiful daughters with his late wife, Helen. While writing, he also worked for many years in the volunteer ambulance service. "I'd be at my desk typing, then thirty minutes later I'd be crawling into an overturned car."

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She was taught to obey. Now she has learned to rebel.

12 year old Isabella, a French princess marries the King of England - only to discover he has a terrible secret. Ten long years later she is in utter despair - does she submit to a lifetime of solitude and a spiritual death - or seize her destiny and take the throne of England for herself?

Isabella is just twelve years old when she marries Edward II of England. For the young princess it is love at first sight - but Edward has a

terrible secret that threatens to tear their marriage - and England apart.

Who is Piers Gaveston - and why is his presence in the king’s court about to plunge England into civil war?

The young queen believes in the love songs of the troubadours and her own exalted destiny - but she finds reality very different. As she grows

to a woman in the deadly maelstrom of Edward’s court, she must decide between her husband, her children, even her life - and one

breath-taking gamble that will change the course of history.

This is the story of Isabella, the only woman ever to invade England - and win.

In the tradition of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick, ISABELLA is thoroughly researched and fast paced, the little known story of the

one invasion the English never talk about.

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