Maggie Craig: 10 books

When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at thehuge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow’s George Square in 1919, the General Strike of 1926and on through the Spanish...

They were modern men: doctors and lawyers, students and teachers, shoemakers and shopkeepers, farmers, gardeners and weavers. Children of the Age of Reason, they wrote poetry, discussed the latest ideas in philosophy and science - and rose in armed rebellion against the might of the British crown...

Edinburgh, Yuletide 1743, and Redcoat officer Robert Catto would rather be anywhere else on earth than Scotland. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city’s Town Guard, he fears his covert mission to assess the strength of the Jacobite threat will force him to confront the past he...

Damn' Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the Jacobite Rising by telling fascinating stories of the many women caught up in the turbulent events of 1745-46. Many historians have ignored female participation in the '45: this book aims to redress the balance. Drawn from many...

Robert Catto's Christmas, a short story set at the end of Gathering Storm.  An account of events which transpired in Edinburgh on Yule Day, 1743.    

Glasgow, 1920s. Growing up in a poor but loving family in a crowded tenements around Glasgow cathedral, Josephine Shaw dreams of a very different kind of life for herself, her motherm brother and sister and is overjoyed when she is taken on as a copygirl at a Glasgow newspaper. The General Strike of 1926 brings tragedy in its wake, Josie is left alone and friendless.

A short biography of a remarkable Scotwoman.​

Glasow, 1932. The whole city was dancin, people trying for a few hours to forget their troubles and the grip of the Depression. Jean Dunlop longs to join them. At the dancing, she meets handsome and charming Andrew Loga. a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. When her fiercely religious employers discover what she's been doing, she finds herself out on the streets.

A warm and poignant story of love, triumph over adversity and the building of the great ocean liner, the Queen Mary, set in Clydebank and the West of Scotland during the Hungry Thirties.  Times are hard, but a close-knit community always manages to find a way to laugh at its troubles. Robbie...

Glasgow, 1920s. When her farther dies, Ellie Douglas has little option but to go into service. Her position takes her out of the life of Frank Rafferty - childhood friend and now a member of one of Glasgow's notorious gangs - and into the world of Evander Tait son, heir and black sheep of the Tait household.