Francis J Glynn

'The Scrivener's Corbie' tells the story of the life of Harry Staens, scrivener – from teenage fumblings in a Bordeaux forest to a witch’s pyre in Edinburgh by way of meetings with kings and queens, duel and plague, reform and faeries – all from the unique perspective of Seneca, the crow. "You people, you will never be like us crows..."

'The Salt Farmer' (2018) is set in 1536 against the backdrop of Henry VIII's reformation and the English counter-reformation known as 'The Pilgrimage of Grace'. It follows the paths of salt farmer Jaap van der Staen, the charismatic novice, Barbara, and Harry, a street child, who embark on a pilgrimage through a world of destruction, burnings, and shipwrecks.

Francis lives in Fife.

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