Product Description: Entwined in history, separated by fate . . . - Bonnie Prince Charlie, having fled Scotland in disguise after a doomed attack on the English, with the selfless help of Flora, the poor shepherdess, is now living in isolated comfort in London, whilst Flora and her four children struggle to survive...read more

Product Description: An evocative novel exploring the life of Mary Queen of Scots - Nathan, a pedlar and seller of embroidery threads, first sets his eyes on the queen as an infant being crowned at Stirling Castle. He follows her life, being one of the many who are drawn to her, and becomes more closely involved in her life than a mere pedlar could possibly imagine ...read more

Product Description: Entwined in history, separated by fate . . . - Bonnie Prince Charlie, having fled Scotland in disguise after a doomed attack on the English, with the selfless help of Flora, the poor shepherdess, is now living in isolated comfort in London, whilst Flora and her four children struggle to survive...read more

Product Description: The streams ran red, choked with the blood of the Scottish people . . . - James IV of Scotland was the most charismatic but also the most doomed of the Stewart family to sit on the Scottish throne. Brilliantly clever, handsome and daring, he disdained his brother-in-law, Henry VIII of England, and set out on a flimsy excuse to inflict a resounding defeat on Scotlands ancient enemy...read more

Product Description: In this sequel to ""The Storm,"" widowed Rosabelle Maltman moves to London after the violent storm that devastated her village of Eyemouth. Now, as Rosabelle's sister-in-law Jessie manipulates the menfolk of the village, their mother-in-law Effie helps the villagers look to the future...read more

An enthralling Scottish saga based on a true historical event In October 1881 a violent storm devastated the prosperous fishing village of Eyemouth, in the Scottish Borders, leaving few families unscathed. Newly wed Rosabelle Maltman lost her husband, her mother-in-law Effie her husband and three sons. For these women, and their friends and neighbours in the small, close-knit community, life would never be the same again. As the months pass, the women of Eyemouth must learn to look to the future, to live and to love again. This is their dramatic and poignant story?

Product Description: A wonderful novel set in 1950s Edinburgh, continuing the story of ambitious young reporter Rosa Makepeace from Hot News Things have changed recently in the Evening Dispatch newsroom: Rosa has a new rival for the position of the Dispatch?'s most ambitious recruit ?{ Charles Rutland...read more

Product Description: A tale of friendship and compassion in IndiaFollowing the massacre at Cawnpore in 1857, Emily and her sister Lucy are captured and held at the Bibighar, the house of the Indian mistress of the British Nabob. Years later, in 1919, a young British doctor called Jenny Garland encounters an elderly woman living in terrible poverty in the slums of the Cawnpore Bazaar...read more

Product Description: Young journalist finds herself in mortal danger Rosa Makepeace is a young, wannabe reporter on Edinburgh's evening paper, the Dispatch. It is New Year's Eve 1955 and she receives news of the murder of a local prostitute. Fuelled by her ambition for a scoop, she is determined to unearth all she can about the story...read more

After an anonymous tip, Detective Inspector Tommy Morrison of the Bombay police reopens an old murder case and discovers that the victim, a woman found dead on a train in 1969, was his sister's illegitimate child and had been given up for adoption at birth.

Product Description: ""He can't be dead. I love him, you see."" When Ben Carmichael dies of a heart attack on a business trip to Singapore, his wife, Dee - now his widow - is devastated. She is left financially as well as emotionally impoverished and though her friends, the eccentric Josie, the stalwart Madeleine and the mysterious Algy, all support her in their own way, maintaining her home and caring for her four children is still an uphill struggle...read more

Product Description: Dee and Ben Carmichael have returned to Bombay with their children. Investigating the activities of a gold smuggler, Dee becomes confused about the reality of the world around her . . .

Product Description: The sequel to A Bombay Affair Monica Fernandes is a beautiful half-Indian girl who realises that her Australian lover Bob Bates isn't going to marry her - because he is already married. So she decides to take matters into her own hands...read more

Living in Bombay in the 1950s, Roberta Maling-Smith--known as Baby to her friends and family--nurses a broken heart by embarking on a relationship with charming Australian Dennis Gillies, unaware that he is being blackmailed.

With a blend of historical fact and fiction, Elisabeth McNeill presents a novel of age-old class divisions, of the destructive power of money, and of a rich woman's struggle to find her own worth.

Product Description: In 1878 Amelia Portbury was sent to prison for causing her mother's death. Although Amelia always maintained Mrs Ares died from other causes, to the judge and jury, Amelia had much to gain from her mother's death. Amelia had been left an annuity of five hundred pounds per year on her husband's death, on the condition she never remarried, but Amelia had fallen in love with Sam Portbury, causing her mother to revoke the annuity...read more

Product Description: Sir Henry Gwillim, his wife Elizabeth and her frivolous sister, Polly, sailed from Portsmouth on a freezing February day in 1801 to a new life in the East. Sir Henry had been appointed to an influential judiciary post in the East India Company...read more

Product Description: 13 years have passed since the navvies came to Camptounfoot to build the railway. In their wake they left several fatherless children. One such child is Kitty Scott. Wild through neglect, she is a loner - until the day she rescues shy newcomer Marie Benjamin from the taunts of her classmates...read more

Product Description: Christopher Wylie has been commissioned to build a bridge to carry the new rail-way.He knows that this will be his last so he designs a bridge of exceptional bebeauty.His daughter Emma Jane is the one who realises her father's dream...

In the time of the Crusades, beautiful Scholastique, heir to vast landholdings, pledges her love to Peter Astrolabe, is forced to marry the brutal Wolf of Beaune, and fights for her heritage. Original.

Product Description: Written by the author of "Shanghai Emerald", "Lark Returning", "A Woman of Gallantry", "Mistress of Green Tree Mill", "Perseverence Place", this is a saga set in the small Scottish town of Lauriston in 1816.

This is a saga of Old Town Edinburgh that enacts an infamous local scandal concerning Veronica Hay and her adultery set during the city's Golden Age. The author has also written "The Shanghai Emerald" and "Lark Returning".

Four generations of 'bondagers', female laborers who were bonded to a farmer for year-long stints in Scotland, fall short of their dreams until Lark, a talented singer, rises above the moors to make a name for the family

Mae de Vaucouleurs manages to save a flawless, invaluable emerald after the city of Shanghai is bombed, and although she escapes and must part from her girlhood friend Madeleine, after living worlds apart the women are reunited