Thistledown

I’m closing in on the Jacobites but had to stop to finish the rewrite and publishing of Thistledown, a novel set in the Highlands of Scotland in the years just after Waterloo. I was first […]

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Duel in the Rain

I’ve sent the first book of the Drover trilogy to have it critiqued and then either throw it in the bucket or work it into something saleable. It’s a good tale and I’m hopeful it […]

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1820 Scottish Uprising

In 1820, a brooding suspicion lay over the whole country. There were many discharged soldiers unemployed and bitter at the way they had been treated after fighting Napoleon. There were also many, just as bitter, […]

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Writing about Scotland

– Because I write about Scotland, I’ve been accused of being a Scottish Nationalist but I write about what I know and I’ve been through all of the drove road country, so I wrote Drover. […]

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Mary McPherson off to Australia

McPherson, Moidart, Australia, Drover – How Mary McPherson got to Australia was a story in itself. Her husband was a ship’s captain but there were few jobs in the depression and he was working as […]

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