The Bookseller of Inverness: a gripping historical thriller from the double prizewinning author

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Yes, the Jacobites get a bit wearing after a while, but I enjoyed this one more than her Seeker series which is set in Cromwell’s England, and for some reason just didn’t work for me at all. A gripping historical thriller set in Inverness in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden from twice CWA award-winning author S. The Jacobite rebellions may have been crushed, but the King over the Water still has many supporters.

Iain’s grandmother is one of the “Grandes Dames”, a small group of old ladies who have lost husbands, brothers and sons in the earlier rebellions, but who still have absolute loyalty to the King Over the Water, and who provide the backbone that keeps the spirit of the cause strong even during these years of oppression. Set in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead – years later, he lives a quiet lift as a bookseller in Inverness. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Those dogs are, by seventeenth-century necessity, 'hounds', but I like to believe that in each of them beats the heart of a Labrador. Set in Inverness and the surrounding countryside in 1752, it tells the story of the remnants of the Jacobite cause.

I didn’t find the mystery element particularly interesting, but I loved the characters and the Inverness setting. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Although he’s been an absent father for most of Iain’s life, they still have a strong bond of love, and Hector’s arrival stirs Iain back to life from the kind of dull stagnation he has felt since the defeat at Culloden. It's set in the aftermath of the Jacobite rebellion but the history is woven in seamlessly and the plot is swept along by bigger human themes, like treachery, intrigue, hope and revenge. The Bookseller of Inverness is a gripping historical thriller set in Inverness in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden from twice CWA award-winning author S. Six years later in 1752, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a very different and quiet life, he is no longer the outgoing man he used to be, and is working as a bookseller in Inverness, with his assistant Richard Dempster, and the talented bookbinder, Donald Mor.

From that moment, it was impossible to disconnect the place in my mind from what had happened there. I loved our hero, Iain MacGillivray, Jacobite survivor of Culloden, now trying to live a quiet life as a bookseller. What is to follow is a fantastic and intriguing 18th Century story about loyalty and betrayal, honour and cowardice between clans versus clans, where self-preservation for family and betrayal towards close friends are common, and retributions against traitors are necessary in certain situations, and all this in a bid to survive a time of turmoil and gruesome death during the Jacobite risings, and the subsequent brutal quelling of these risings by the Duke of Cumberland.The books had taken me to London, Oxford, York and Bruges, all places I had had very little knowledge of beforehand. I've never been to Inverness but this book was so well written I felt I could picture it really vividly.

I enjoyed this one too, although I do wish more authors would focus on other periods of Scottish history apart from the Jacobites. uk/landing-page/quercus/quercus-company-information/">The data controller is Quercus Editions Ltd. She has written four highly acclaimed historical thrillers set in Scotland, The Redemption of Alexander Seaton (shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger), A Game of Sorrows , Crucible of Secrets and The Devil's Recruit , and a series of historical thrillers set in Oliver Cromwell's London. I’m not sure – I have read a couple of books written closer to the time, and yes, now that you mention it I think they do give a rather more balanced picture. This is not, however, as romanticised as The Flight of the Heron – MacLean’s characters ring truer and this makes the book feel more modern, not in an anachronistic sense but in that they think and act as normal flawed humans, rather than as the impossibly virtuous Highlanders of Broster’s creation.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.