At the end of the 13th century, Scotland was a blood-torn country suffering under the harsh domination of a tyrant usurper, the hated Plantagenet, Edward Longshanks. During the appalling violence of those unsettled days, one man rose to become leader of the Scots. That man was William Wallace.Motivated at first by revenge for the slaughter of his father, Wallace vowed to cleanse his country of the English and set the rightful king, Robert the Bruce, upon the Scotti...

The brutal murder of James I, King of Scots, at Perth in 1437 left hisseven-year-old son to rule over a troubled kingdom. Power-hungry lordsseized their chance to gain control over the boy-king James II and hisrealm.When young Alexander Lyon, son of the Thane of Glamis, married Agnes,the daughter of Sir William Crichton, he found himself drawn into thewider affairs of the nation. Alec was to become a close attendant andfriend of the young m...

Son of the doomed Mary Queen of Scots, raised to rule two countries, James was one of the oddest kings ever to ascent any throne. Neither noble nor heroic, he confounded those who despised him by being shrewd enough to reign for fifty-eight years, survive countless plots and never go to war. 'A vastly entertaining addition to the historical novels of Scots author Nigel Tranter.' Glasgow Sunday Mail

MACREADY BELIEVED DEAD STOP PROJECT IN BALANCE STOP PLEASE COME STOP said the cable which reached the respectable Fenchurch Street office of Cranstoun and Macready, Importers and Exporters. Plain words, but enough to baffle David Cranstoun, since his partner, Jim MacReady, was not supposed to be anywhere near Kabul, the project was a complete mystery, and the signature, "Coldstrom", rang no bells. Impulsively, David gets on the next plane to Afghanistan - and finds himself in the midst of ...

This captivating story is a pleasure to read. After the strange events of the introductory chapters, starting with a death during the Clearances of 1817, which give an understanding of the background, the tale unravels with an unsophisticated but finely described momentum. The reader is caught up in the events which unfurl and lead on to the satisfying culmination.

First she was Margaret the refugee. A Saxon princess, sister of EdgarAtheling who, but for William the Conqueror, would have been King ofEngland. She came to Scotland in 1069.Beautiful, sympathetic and devout, she was an unlikely consort to therough and ready Malcolm King of Scots and slayer of MacBeth, a man whocared for little other than hunting, drinking and the brutal arts ofwar.Yet, through her gentle strength of character and intelli...

1513; King James IV lies dead on Flodden's field, his young heir entrusted to two low-born lairds. There are many who seek to supplant or control the boy-king, and only his loyal protectors stand in their way . . . Two hundred years earlier, Robert the Bruce had driven out the English and restored his nation's pride. But now the King of Scotland lay dead amongst the bloody slaughter of Flodden. Now as fate decreed, the new king, James V, was a child, just seventeen months old. And that sam...

A humorous tale of a Chicago Trade Union boss discovering his “Scotch” roots and making his mark on his ancestral home in a Scottish island.

Past Master tells the story of Patrick, Master of Gray, in the era of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, and of his remarkable daughter Mary.With the end of Elizabeth I's long reign in sight, Patrick, Master of Gray, is determined that James VI should succeed to the English throne.Nothing can be allowed to stand in his way - not even his own daughter's happiness.And so Mary Gray and her lover, Ludovick, Duke of Lennox, are to be caught up in a savag...

Mac 'ic Iver Mhor had been the chieftain of Clann Iverach until after Culloden. He had supported Charles Edward and was lucky to escape, although wounded, with the few of his men who survived. He fled back to Strathalish in Wester Ross and when the Redcoats came seeking him, he took to the heather with his wife and son and took refuge in Am Fasch nan Earba, a plateau in the hills clothed with pines and knolls. He was never seen again, but his descendants became tinkers.This is the g...

An appealing tale of the return to his roots of a Scottish Clan Chief.Hugh MacAimish, on inheriting the chieftainship of the Clan Seumas, and gaining the right to wear Eagle's Feathers in his cap, bought the ancestral land of the clan in Western Highlands of Scotland. He was filled with enthusiasm to revive the clan spirit and to re-establish a community of the clan's people. He was the vice-president of the Atlantic State Railroad and, as well as the clan chief, was also the chief...

After young James the Third's accession to the Scottish throne, theambitious Boyd family of Kilmarnock seized power in a bloodless coup.Mary Stewart, James' eldest sister, was at first unwilling to marryThomas Boyd, future Earl of Arran - but she had no choice.Eventually, however, she learned to love him, and when he was sent tothe Danish court to negotiate with King Christian, she discovered aunique talent for diplomacy. In exchange for Princess ...