Nigel: 1192 books

John Thriepwood comes to Scotland in 1946 with his small son after inheriting the family estate. The now Lord Thriepwood finds a ruined and neglected estate. This absorbing and easily read story quickly captures the readers interest and sympathy, as it recounts the perseverance and willing hard work needed in the face of continued problems and the initial mistrust of the local people

A brilliant leader, a renowned strategist, a talented moderate in a bigoted age: James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose, is a man of great charm and steadfast loyalty. Devoting his life to King Charles I leads him to reluctant involvement in national affairs: to intrigue, violence, treachery and battle....

Once again Scotland was fighting for her survival as a free and independent nation. Robert the Bruce's legacy, three years after his death in 1329, is in danger. With a five-year-old heir guarded by an ageing and diminishing band of lieutenants, the English King, Edward III, has seen his opportunity....

Here is a simple tale of a simple man to whom simple circumstances---and his neighbours---proclaimed that he required a wife to look after his children, his cows and his goat.  Since most of the women on his native island were near relatives to himself, it seemed that he would have to go to look...

Set in the 1930's, this is the tale of a modern Highland Clearance.  Lord Holtby, a self-made Yorkshire woollen manufacturer and millionaire, bought a large West Highland estate from a descendant of the Stewarts of Monach.  His first action was to replace the factor, Mark Stewart who was,...

Only eighteen years old when she returned to Scotland to rule, the beautiful but unfortunate Mary Stuart was in dire need of protection: from the savage religious intolerance of the time, from scoundrels in high places, even from the men she injudiciously married. While John Knox, the Regent...

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.

Born of one of Scotland's noblest families, Patrick Gray was fascinating, irresistible, ambitious and ruthless. Involved in a daring plot to free the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots, and immersed in the intrigues of Elizabeth I's Tudor court, he strode imperiously across the turbulent stage of European...

A gripping tale of two groups of tenants of adjoining Scottish Highland sporting estates in the 1930s who are in dispute over the boundaries and shooting rights of their respective grounds – it leads to deer poaching and perhaps girl poaching.

David Scott and his wife, Margaret, were well involved in the by-election for Central Peebles and the East March in the Scottish Borders - David, because a wartime comrade, Archie Butler, had been selected as the candidate for An Co-fhlaitheachd, a Scottish Republican party, and Margaret, because...

A stealthy fishing-boat, blacked-out in the dead of night, and strange blinking lights on the shores of Aberlady Bay add up to a mystery that Lieutenant-Commander Philip Hepburn can't ignore. Following a chance sighting of the elusive vessel while on shore-leave, and a violent encounter with some...

Alan Kinnear was on a working holiday, attempting to rejuvenate his writing skills, in the Cairngorm area of the Highlands.  He was unwittingly involved, on the side of the law, in deer poaching on an industrial scale which was seriously affecting a sporting estate, one of whose tenants he was...

Angus Guthrie, Scottish sailor and undercover oil-prospector, gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to accompany an archaeological expedition into the forbidden heart of the Arabian desert. The group must overcome the suspicions and superstitions of a region untouched by the modern age and...

In 1704 Colin MacColl of Ardcoll, the eldest son and heir to An Colin Mor, Chief of Clan Colin, returned to his father's castle, the castle of Duncolin in West Ross, after an enforced absence of three years. He found his father a caricature of his former self, having suffered an injury to his head,...