No one could keep Kate down... Not the philandering Balfour heir who seduced her and left her to bear his son alone. Not the proper minister who thrust her from his home to walk the long road to Glasgow and the uncertain future. Not the mine owner wh...
The final instalment of the Kate Kilgour trilogy. Patie Fleming, the racing driver who carries on the Kilgour family’s engineering interests, marries a wealthy wife. By contrast, his sister marries the local pit agent - although another, ver...
“Saturday City” is Glasgow in Scotland. In the tumultuous period from 1880 till 1918, Glasgow was second only to London among the cities of the Empire. This is the story of that city, a city whose confident, bustling surface does not hide the pov...
Annie McIlvanney is desperate to get away from the life of poverty and boredom that she has grown up with in Glasgow " a city that is suffering under the effects of the American Civil War. After an afternoon ties her to her Highland love, Hector, A...
Starting just before the First World War, Jan Webster’s novel plunges the Candish family and its fearsome widowed matriarch Janet, into a physical and moral maelstrom, bringing the reader out the other side into a peace where everything is utterly...
Wee Bee Dashing, a quarter horse mare, was born in a small town in Texas. After learning the ropes of barrel racing and other rodeo events, she recognizes her special talent and begins to participate in rodeos. Wee Bee Dashing becomes famous and she ...
The bunting is out, the bands are playing, the trains bringing in hordes of holiday-makers from the Potteries to join in Macclesfield’s Barnabay Fair. It’s a special day for the town -- the Fair coincides with the opening of Henriette Orme’s...
It is going to be a tradition Scottish wedding: kilts, reels, feasting, wild keening music, whisky et al. But the handsome Smollett, though deeply in love, is a reluctant groom ad beautiful, ambitious Melinda is not sure until the last moment whether...