Pirate Queen, Judith Cook
Pirate Queen, Judith Cook
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Pirate Queen
The Life of Grace O'Malley

Author: Judith Cook

Narrator: Katherine Anderson

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/27/2022

Synopsis

In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plundering, kidnapping, murder and mayhem came to a close in 1586, when she was captured and sentenced to hang.

Saved from the scaffold by none other than Queen Elizabeth herself—another powerful woman in a man's world—Grace's life took another extraordinary turn, when it was rumored she had become intelligencer for the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham. Was this the price of her freedom?

Judith Cook explores this and other questions about the life and times of this remarkable woman in a fascinating, thrilling, and impeccably researched book.

About Judith Cook

Well-known for her columns in the Guardian's women's page and as an anti-nuclear campaigner (she founded the organization Voice of Women after the Cuban missile crisis of 1962), Judith Cook was also a prolific biographer and investigative journalist. Her subjects included J. B. Priestley, Daphne du Maurier and Hilda Murrell, the anti-nuclear campaigner who died in mysterious circumstances1985. Born in Manchester, Judith Cook lived for many years in Cornwall, where she died in 2004.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Devann on August 07, 2020

I received an ARC copy of this book from Edelweiss Definitely an interesting read. While I already knew a bit about Grace O'Malley this is definitely more of an in-depth look at her life than I have read before. I did find the writing style to be a bit clunky and some of the pacing seemed a bit awkwa......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on June 03, 2019

I received this book for free in a Library Thing giveaway in exchange for an honest review I've been reading comics every month since I discovered them in December. They're quick, vary in tone, and add to my Goodreads goal. I'm a big fan of Europe and I love to read books set in that continent. Pirat......more

Goodreads review by By Book and Bone on July 18, 2021

Was quite disappointed with this. The disclaimer at the start mentions that most of it is from the author's imagination. Then why is it so unimaginative? The dialogue is awful, which is pretty bad considering it's a graphic novel so its pretty much all dialogue. It's awkward and stilted. Lines that a......more

Goodreads review by Eliza on February 28, 2020

I don't really like comic books.......more

Goodreads review by alexofmacedonia on April 15, 2023

I'd never heard of the Pirate Queen before, and I've enjoyed the other graphic novels by Tony Lee, so I was curious to see what this was about. I was a little confused with the rapid time jumps as they weren't always labeled, but the story itself made up for that by being exciting and well drawn. ov......more

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