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Author
Publisher
Sidgwick & Jackson
Pub. Date
2016
Description
'Mad Frank and Sons' follows his rise from a small kid stealing to put food on the table to a feared and respected West End crime lord and head of a legendary gangland family. It includes the story of Frank's beloved sister, Eva, who was a top-class West End shoplifter, and his sons David and Patrick, who reveal in shocking detail the full extent of the family's network and the influences that shaped them.
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
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Description
In the wake of a devastating fire in the mountains of North Carolina, Highlander Jamie Fraser & his English wife find themselves homeless & without family, in the midst of the gathering storm of revolution. Thanks to his time-travelling wife's information, Jamie knows what the coming spring of 1778 will bring.
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up has a double purpose. It is partly an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth - in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return'. But it is also intended as a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s - her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as...
Author
Series
Outlander volume 9
Description
Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the...
Author
Publisher
Signum
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Liz Fraser was one of Britain's favourite leading ladies for three decades. This is her remarkable story, in her own words. She includes shocking revelations about some of her best-known co-stars, reveals the heartbreak behind two marriages, and discusses her courageous battles with cancer.
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Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Can a killer ever be on the side of justice? In 1983, Professor Balfour was found floating in Airthrey Loch at the heart of Stirling University's campus. His death was deemed an accident but there were other, darker rumours. The death of a politics professor allegedly linked to the armed wing of the Scottish Liberation Army was always going to attract conspiracy theories. But that's all they were. Theories. Until now. To mark the 40th anniversary...
Author
Series
Publisher
Clipper Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Joan MacKimmie is on her way to Paris to take up her vocation as a nun. Yet her decision is less a matter of faith than fear, for Joan is plagued by mysterious voices that speak of the future, and by visions that mark those about to die. The sanctuary of the nunnery promises respite from these unwanted visitations or so she prays. Her chaperone is Michael Murray, a young widower who, though he still mourns the death of his wife, finds himself powerfully...
9) Virgins
Author
Series
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of mercenaries in the French countryside, where he reconnects with his old friend Ian Murray. Both are nursing wounds; both have good reason to stay out of Scotland; and both are still virgins, despite several opportunities to remedy that deplorable situation with ladies of easy virtue. But Jamie's love life becomes infinitely...
10) Violent ends
Author
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The voice was smooth, cultured, almost tender as it oozed from the phone into Connor Fraser's ear. 'I've heard about you, Mr Fraser, and I'm very impressed by your work. So I've decided to employ you. I am going to kill Father John Donnelly sometime in the next seven days. And you are going to stop me - or die trying. If you check your account, you'll see I've deposited 70,000. And, just to be fair, I'll give you an hour, starting now, to find Father...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2014
Description
June 1778, and as the American War of Independence nears its turning point, time-travelling lovers Jamie and Claire find themselves torn apart by the warring forces. As sons fight against fathers and whole families are splintered by the conflict, even Claire's foreknowledge of the future can only help her so much. Caught in the maelstrom of historical events, once again Jamie and Claire must battle to survive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Claire Randall returns to the Scottish Highlands to look up an historian she met 20 years earlier. She is seeking the father of her daughter. Her questions take her back to a distant past and the dangers, hardships and the man she once loved.
Author
Publisher
HarperPress
Pub. Date
2012
Description
'The Last Highlander' looks at the life of Simon Fraser; Jacobite, turncoat, traitor and the last nobleman to be executed for treason after failing to persuade the battered remnants of Bonnie Prince Charlie's army to make a last stand in the wake of the defeat at Culloden.
Author
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2008
Description
It's 1758 and Europe is in turmoil. The Seven Years War is taking hold and London is ripe with deceit. The enigmatic Lord John Grey, a nobleman and high-ranking officer in His Majesty's Army, pursues a clandestine love affair and a deadly family secret.
17) My history
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up has a double meaning. It is partly an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth - in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return'. But it is also intended as a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s - her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Ronald Fraser is an internationally renowned chronicler of other people's experience. 'In Search of a Past' is his account of his own origins. Gathering the memories of the servants who worked at the Manor House during his childhood, the author recreates a vivid picture of a vanished interwar world.
20) The fiery cross
Author
Series
Outlander volume 5
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Description
The time is 1771 and the colony of North Carolina teeters on an uneasy edge. Jamie Fraser is a man of worth but he has a lot to lose. His wife, Claire, is known notoriously as a wisewoman or a witch. They both know they have to survive.