Bannockburn
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: June 26, 2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781841954653
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction
First sentence: IN THE LATE THIRTEENTH century Scotland faced a challenge to its continuing survival from a strong and acquisitive English king who as early as 1291 told his privy council that he had it in his mind 'to bring under his dominion the king and the realm of Scotland'.