William Black

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2006
  • Latest Book:
    May 2016
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Sunset

    One chilly afternoon in February, while as yet the London season had not quite begun, though the streets were busy enough, an open barouche was being rapidly driven along Piccadilly in the direction of Coventry Street; and its two occupants, despite ...

  • MacLeod of Dare

    The sun had sunk behind the lonely western seas; Ulva, and Lunga, and the Dutchman's Cap had grown dark on the darkening waters; and the smooth Atlantic swell was booming along the sombre caves; but up here in Castle Dare, on the high and rocky coast...

  • The Beautiful Wretch

    William Black (1841-1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow. He was educated with a view to being a landscape painter, a training that clearly influenced his literary life, and as a writer he became celebrated for the detailed and atmospheric descriptio...

  • Sunrise

    William Black (1841-1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow. He was educated with a view to being a landscape painter, a training that clearly influenced his literary life, and as a writer he became celebrated for the detailed and atmospheric descriptio...

  • A Princess Of Thule

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  • Ashton-Kirk Investigator

  • Judith Shakespeare: Her Love Affairs and Other Adventures

  • Nanciebel

    Title: Nanciebel: a tale of Stratford-on-Avon. [Extracted from "The Magic Ink."]

    Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

    The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's large...

  • The Strange Adventures Of A Phaeton

    Title: The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton ... Third edition.

    Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

    The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research librari...



  • White Heather

    “On a certain cold evening in January, and just as the Scotch night-mail was about to start for the north, a stranger drove up to Euston and alighted, and was glad enough to escape from the chill draughts of the echoing station into the glow and wa...

  • The Strange Adventures Of A House-Boat - Vol. 2

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  • Plats du Jour

    There is more than a slight malaise in the air these days about French food and cooking. While the rest of the world delights in the intricacies of molecular gastronomy and even Britain is revelling in a culinary renaissance, in France the years of w...

  • Kilmeny

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  • In Silk Attire

  • The Second Sight

    Henry Lamont does not believe in ghosts. Or faeries.

    Imagine his surprise when they kidnap him.

    Set in the Scottish Highlands, THE SECOND SIGHT is a period mystery that features Henry, a young Victorian man so enamored of modern scie...

  • Goldsmith

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

  • Stand Fast, Craig-Royston!

    And at first Vincent was for rebelliously thrusting aside and ignoring this information that had reached him so unexpectedly. Was he, on the strength of a statement forwarded by an unknown correspondent in New York, to suspect-nay, to condemn unheard...

  • Inheritances: Stories

    William Black's debut short story collection looks closely at lives lived in the heart of coal country-now fracking country-in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Two miners battered by a cave-in try to wrestle down the river that altered the course of their ...

  • Donald Ross of Heimra

    “All that night there was marching and counter-marching, and whipping up of recruits, and drinking of whiskey, and singing of Gabhaidh sinn an rathad mòr.[#] Big Archie and his peaceful, or pseudo-peaceful, counsels were no longer heeded; the move...



  • White Wings

    A murmur runs through the crowd; the various idlers grow alert; all eyes are suddenly turned to the south. And there, far away over the green headland, a small tuft of brown smoke appears, rising into the golden glow of the afternoon, and we know tha...

  • The New Prince Fortunatus

    William Black (13 November 1841 - 10 December 1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland. During his own lifetime Black's novels were immensely popular, and were compared favourably with those of Anthony Trollope. However, his fame and popularity...

  • The Handsome Humes

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  • In Far Lochaber

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  • The Pupil Of Aurelius, And The Four Macnicols

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  • Wild Eelin

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  • Madcap Violet

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  • Prince Fortunatus

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    William Black (1841-1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow. He was educated with a view to being a landscape painter, a training that clearly influenced his literary life, and as a writer he became celebrated for the detailed and atmospheric descriptio...

  • The Strange Adventures Of A House-boat

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Black has published 28 books.

William Black does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The New Prince Fortunatus, was published in May 2016.

The first book by William Black, Sunset, was published in January 2006.

No. William Black does not write books in series.
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