Nigel Tranter: 74 books

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,...

Erismore was an isolated small island in the Inner Hebrides and Finlay MacBride had been the Church of Scotland minister – but before he followed so many of the island's men to the colours, he had been aware that not all was well on the island. Aeneas Graham, serving as a doctor in Wellington's...

This captivating story is a pleasure to read.  After the strange events of the introductory chapters, starting with a death during the Clearances of 1817, which give an understanding of the background, the tale unravels with an unsophisticated but finely described momentum.  The reader is caught up in the events which unfurl and lead on to the satisfying culmination.

This is the thrilling story of Angus Og MacDonald, Lord of the Isles, during the turbulent days of Robert the Bruce. The grandson of the great Angus Mor, direct descendant and successor of Somerled himself, the semi-independent prince of the Hebrides and much of the West Highland mainland,...

A casket of incriminating letters from Mary, Queen of Scots. The letters would be an instrument of persuasion - or blackmail as others might call it. Whoever held them had a hold over the James VI King of Scots, now also King James I of England. But for Andrew, seventh Lord Gray, laying hands...

Written by the author of The Bruce Trilogy, The Captive Crown, and Margaret the Queen, this is the story of a very human, fallible but courageous and indomitable man, born an Irish prince in the troubled and pagan sixth century, who rejected the high kingship of all Ireland to be an abbot.

During the reign of Malcolm IV, King of the Scots, Hugh de Swinton and his fellow mosstroopers helped keep the rampaging Galloway rebels at bay. But it was for his expertise in the killing of wild boars, as protector of the Swintons' sheep flocks, that young Hugh was brought to Malcolm's attention. But...

This is a humorous tale of the successful efforts of a laird's daughter to promote to the world the small and remote island of Rum where she lives.  It involves the entrapment of a young American film executive into the deception and relocation of a film company and finally, also of an American...

Mac 'ic Iver Mhor had been the chieftain of Clann Iverach until after Culloden.  He had supported Charles Edward and was lucky to escape, although wounded, with the few of his men who survived. He fled back to Strathalish in Wester Ross and when the Redcoats came seeking him, he took to the heather...