24 Ebooks de Nigel Tranter
Nigel Tranter: Story of Scotland
Scotland’s story cannot be told merely in terms of documentary evidence, for this would be to neglect an integral part of the nation’s heritage. The legends, myths, stories and memories handed down …
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Nigel Tranter: Hope Endures
The son of an Edinburgh merchant, Hope had a spectacular beginning to his career: at the age of seventeen, before he had even finished his legal education, he travelled to France to triumph in his …
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Nigel Tranter: Islesman
This is the thrilling story of Angus Og Mac Donald, 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 …
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Nigel Tranter: Triple Alliance
Having won the Battle of Dunbar in 1650, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sought to bring Scotland also under his protectorate. When he eventually returned to England, leaving General …
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Nigel Tranter: High Kings And Vikings
As Christendom approached the first Millennium, conflict and war prevailed throughout a troubled Scotland. The population remained under constant threat from bloodthirsty Viking raids, and the High …
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Nigel Tranter: Envoy Extraordinary
Patrick of Dunbar was more interested in encouraging the trade generated by the great wool production of his sheep-strewn Lammermuir Hills than in warfare and matters of state. But these were …
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Nigel Tranter: End of the Line
As the 15th century dawned, Scotland was plunged into chaos. With the new king ailing and weak, his unscrupulous younger brother, the Earl of Fife, seized his chance to become Regent and Governer of …
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Nigel Tranter: Marie And Mary
Marie de Guise ruled Scotland alone after the death of her husband James V. She foiled Henry Tudor of England’s plans to marry her baby daughter to his son Edward and unite the two thrones under …
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Nigel Tranter: Right Royal Friend
When James the Sixth, His Grace of Scotland, also becomes His Majesty of England, far-reaching changes take place in the two realms.David Murray, the young son of Sir Andrew, a Perthshire laird, has …
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Nigel Tranter: Lion Let Loose
James the First of Scots was an extraordinary man: poet, thinker warrior, athlete and statesman. And prisoner – for he was held captive for almost half his adult life.He possessed that fatal Stewart …
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Nigel Tranter: Black Douglas
It was almost inevitable that in the 15th century the new Scots royal house of Stewart would have to come to a reckoning with the great house of Douglas.Young Will Douglas, the eight earl, was born …
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Nigel Tranter: Gold for Prince Charlie
In 1745 the Highlanders limped away from the bitter field of Culloden. Soon the Duke of Cumberland was offering a huge sum for the capture of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, dead or alive. Duncan Mac …
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Nigel Tranter: Wisest Fool
Son of the doomed Mary Queen of Scots, raised to rule two countries, James was one of the oddest kings ever to ascent any throne. Neither noble nor heroic, he confounded those who despised him by …
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Nigel Tranter: Poetic Justice
Laird of a small estate, Will Alexander of Menstrie, poet and tutor, wasa man of modest ambitions. But when James VI learned of his poeticgenius, the king had other plans for him.In 1603, when James …
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Nigel Tranter: Crusader
Alexander III of Scotland was just seven years old when he inherited thethrone. South of the border, England’s King Henry III saw this as hischance to assert his paramountcy over the kingdom. At the …
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Nigel Tranter: David the Prince
Half-Celt and half-Saxon, King David determined to take hold of hisbackward, patriarchal, strife-ridden country and, against all the odds, pushed and dragged it into the forefront of Christendom’s …
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Nigel Tranter: Lion’s Whelp
The brutal murder of James I, King of Scots, at Perth in 1437 left hisseven-year-old son to rule over a troubled kingdom. Power-hungry lordsseized their chance to gain control over the boy-king James …
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Nigel Tranter: Patriot
In 1678, Scotland liesunder the dark threat of union with England. In an era of intrigue and bloodshed, Andrew Fletcher, laird of Saltoun, stands out as a man of ideals and integrity. His fearless …
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Nigel Tranter: Rage of Regents
In 1568, the defeat of Mary, Queen of Scots at the Battle of Langside and her subsequent flight to England left Scotland a troubled nation. Mary’s infant son was crowned James VI, with her …
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Nigel Tranter: Riven Realm
1513; King James IV lies dead on Flodden’s field, his young heir entrusted to two low-born lairds. There are many who seek to supplant or control the boy-king, and only his loyal protectors stand in …
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Nigel Tranter: Courtesan
The second in the Master of Gray trilogy takes this seventeenth-century story of war and intrigue in Scotland to the next generation – the Master’s illegitimate daughter. Unacknowledged daughter of …
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Nigel Tranter: Drug on the Market
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. …
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Nigel Tranter: Spanish Galleon
An old story from the loose lips of a whiskey-sodden seaman sets Glaswegian giant Roddy Roy Mac Gregor off in search of wealth beyond his wildest dreams. On the tiny Hebridean Isle of Inishewen, he …
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Nigel Tranter: Cable From Kabul
MACREADY BELIEVED DEAD STOP PROJECT IN BALANCE STOP PLEASE COME STOP said the cable which reached the respectable Fenchurch Street office of Cranstoun and Macready, Importers and Exporters. Plain …
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