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61) Queens' play
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Series
Lymond chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Francis Crawford of Lymond, once an accused traitor, now a valued agent of Scottish diplomacy, is sent to France to protect young Queen Mary Stuart from assassinators that extend from her native country to the court of France.
Author
Series
Prince Charlie's Angels volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Annie MacPherson's world was torn apart when her family's castle was ravaged during the war. Determined to aid her countrymen, she braves the battlefield and finds gravely wounded Lieutenant Craig MacLean. Soon her heart belongs to the fierce warrior."--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Child's Play Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Norman John Gillies was one of the last children ever born on St Kilda, five years before the whole population was evacuated forever to the British mainland. People had lived on these islands for over four thousand years, developing a thriving, tightly-knit society that knew nothing of crime or money, and took care of its weakest members without hesitation. At the mercy of the seasons and the elements, a unique lifestyle evolved, based around resilience,...
64) Little Eve
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra, which sits alone in the black sea off the wildest coast of Scotland. Eve loves the free, savage life of the Isle and longs to inherit Uncle's power. But Dinah longs for something more, something different. With the dawn of the first World War, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In 1471, as the great courts of Europe vie for his wealth and genius, Nicholas vander Poele faces the ultimate competition when his wife, with whom he has been at odds since their wedding night, vies for control of their mutual destiny.
67) The bride
Author
Series
MacAlister family volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"By edict of the king, the mighty Scottish laird Alec Kincaid must take an English bride. His choice is Jamie, the feisty youngest daughter of Baron Jamison. Alec aches to touch her, to tame her, to possess her forever. But Jamie vows never to surrender to this highland barbarian. Though his kisses fire her blood, shadowed secrets from Alec's past threaten Jamie's happiness. She brazenly resists him--until one rapturous moment quells their clash of...
68) Rizzio
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Publisher
Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the heavily pregnant Mary, Rizzio was stabbed fifty six times by a party of assassins. This breathtakingly tense novella dramatises the events that led up to that night, telling the infamous story as it has never been told before. A dark tale of sex, secrets and lies, Rizzio looks at a shocking historical...
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English
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"Scotland, 1830. Following the death of her husband, Lady Darby has taken refuge at her sister's estate, finding solace in her passion for painting. But when her hosts throw a house party for the cream of London society, Kiera is unable to hide from the ire of those who believe her to be as unnatural as her husband, an anatomist who used her artistic talents to suit his own macabre purposes. Kiera wants to put her past aside, but when one of the house...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidmapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Belfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of hte Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he atempts to clear his name and regain his property.
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Series
Lost queen (Signe Pike) volume 1
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In a land of mountains and mist, tradition and superstition, Languoreth and her brother Lailoken are raised in the Old Way of their ancestors. But in Scotland, a new religion is rising, one that brings disruption, bloodshed, and riot. And even as her family faces the burgeoning forces of Christianity, the Anglo-Saxons, bent on colonization, are encroaching from the east. When conflict brings the hero Emrys Pendragon to her father's door, Languoreth...
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And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's the fifties, and Lorrie is unimpressed when her family moves to the remote Scottish island where her grandad runs a whisky distillery. She befriends Sylvie, the shy girl next door: 'The slightest smile from Sylvie was a fluffy elephant at the fayre. It had to be won with a clear aim,' writes Lorrie in her diary. Yet fun-loving Lorrie isn't sure Sylvie's is the friendship she wants to win. But as the adults around them struggle to keep their lives...
Author
Series
Lymond chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Somewhere within the bejeweled labyrinth of the Ottoman empire, a child is hidden. Now his father, Francis Crawford of Lymond, soldier of fortune and the exiled heir of Scottish nobility, is searching for him while ostensibly engaged on a mission to the Turkish Sultan. At stake is a pawn in a cutthroat game whose gambits include treason, enslavement, and murder.
75) A step so grave
Author
Series
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wedding bells are set to ring as Dandy Gilver, family in tow, arrives in windswept Wester Ross on Valentine's Day. They've come to celebrate Lady Lavinia's fiftieth birthday and to meet her daughter Mallory, a less-than-suitable bride-to-be for Dandy's son Donald. But soon love is the last thing on Dandy's mind when the news breaks that Lady Lavinia has been found dead, brutally murdered in the middle of her famous knot garden. Strange superstitions...
76) Mortal arts
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English
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"Scotland, 1830. Lady Kiera Darby is no stranger to intrigue--in fact, it seems to follow wherever she goes. After her foray into murder investigation, Kiera must journey to Edinburgh with her family so that her pregnant sister can be close to proper medical care. But the city is full of many things Kiera isn't quite ready to face: the society ladies keen on judging her, her fellow investigator--and romantic entanglement--Sebastian Gage, and ultimately,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy's beautiful daughter Lucy. First published in 1819, this intricate and searching romantic tragedy offers challenging insights into emotional and sexual politics, and demonstrates...
78) Burke & Hare
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two of the most notorious figures in the history of medicine, William Burke and William Hare were a pair of enterprising street thugs who provided anatomical specimens to the Edinburgh Medical College, often by robbing the graves of the recently dead, sometimes through even more nefarious methods. Derren Nesbitt and Glynn Edwards bring these two scoundrels to life in Burke and Hare, a colorful, early '70s rendition of life in the taverns, brothels,...
79) The mirror dance
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Something sinister is afoot in the streets of Dundee, when a puppeteer is found murdered behind his striped Punch and Judy stand, as children sit cross-legged drinking ginger beer. At once, Dandy Gilver's seemingly-innocuous investigation into plagiarism takes a darker turn. The gruesome death seems to be inextricably bound to the gloomy offices of Doig's Publishers, its secrets hidden in the real stories behind their girls' magazines The Rosie Cheek...
80) The winter sea
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English
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"A hauntingly beautiful tale of love that transcends time: an American writer travels to Scotland to craft a novel about the Jacobite Rebellion, only to discover her own ancestral memories of that torrid moment in Scottish history... In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. When young Sophia Paterson travels to Slains Castle...
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