Wednesday 30 November 2016

A DRINK FOR THE BRIDGE NOW OUT ON KINDLE
Another of my historical novels is now available on Kindle. A Drink for the Bridge was first published by Macmillan back in 1976.
Here’s a summary of the plot: Sunday, December 28, 1879 was a cruel and tragic date in Scottish history. Of the 75 train passengers who plunged to their death when the Tay Bridge fell only 25 were recovered from the river's murky depths. Among the characters lost, or who by a stroke of fate missed the train, were those whose lives were changed for ever. In this cross section of Victorian society, from the wealthy Clara Thoms, whose only concern was that her dinner party had been ruined by this inconvenience, to the poor servant lass Rosie, an unmarried mother with a crippled daughter who lives on the other side of the River Tay. Then there is Emily, middle-aged spinster with her fantasies involving the local doctor, whose daughter is forbidden to marry a gypsy lad. And big Nessie a medium who foresees a terrible calamity that she cannot interpret...
What does destiny hold for them? Who will board the ill-fated train and who will await its arrival in vain only to know sorrow and heartbreak?




HISTORICAL NOVEL THE BLACK DUCHESS ON KINDLE
My historical novel about the lives of two young men caught up on opposite sides of the Spanish plan to invade Elizabethan England, first published back in the 1980’s by MacDonald Futura, has just been published on Kindle. 
That’s the smart thing about the Kindle - it allows books of mine which have long been out of print to be available now and reach a world wide audience. 
Here’s a summary of the plot: Magnificent, proud and with a seabird's grace, the pirate ship Black Duchess joins Spain's ‘Most Holy’ Armada. No less proud, the ship's captain, Don Felipe Flores y Lennox de Montreuse, godson to King Philip of Spain but reared in far-off Scotland beside his English twin-like cousin Amyas Lennox whose face mirrored in his own he would behold through the closing smoke of the sea battle. Certain of victory he could not foresee defeat, nor the stowaway Maeve O'Neill who would teach him the meaning of love - and loss. Nor the dreaded Isles of Orkney, 'the World's End’, where witches conjured up seal people and starving wreckers under a tyrannical ruler preyed on shipwrecked sailors. As a sole survivor, Don Felipe would meet Lady Sibella Stewart with her dark secret and know murder, betrayal and revenge.