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 Post subject: Historical Fiction--Scotland Style
PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:50 pm 
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:bagpipe: :scottish: I love historical fiction that has to do with Scotland, but so much of it is cheesy. I thought here we could have a list of recommended books that are quality. I do like romance, but I want substance. I want character and plot development. Other than DG's stuff, I'll rec:
Moning's Highlander series (her Highlanders also have cameos in her Fever series)
Garwood's: The Bride and Shadow Music (I fell in love with these on audiobook. The narrator, Rosalyn Landor, is excellent)
Kerrelyn Sparks: Love at Stake series. It's vamp romance with a sense of humor. There are Scottish vamps who wear kilts. One vamp always checks his privates (to make sure they're still there) whenever he teleports. LOL IIRC, the character is Angus MacKay.


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 Post subject: Re: Historical Fiction--Scotland Style
PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:56 am 
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We read Red Rose Rebel by Janet Paisley, as Book of the Month in 2010 -

See Here but beware spoilers !

White Rose Rebel tells the riveting and turbulent story of the historical figure known as "Colonel Anne"--Scottish heroine and female "Braveheart"--who risked everything for the love of her country and its rightful king.

The Winter Sea aka Sophie's Secret by Susanna Kearsley

Carrie McClelland came to Scotland to research her next book. Renting a cottage in the same town where her story takes place, Carrie embarks not only on her novel, but on a romance with her landlord's handsome son, Graham Keith. When the boundary between past and present begins to blur, Carrie finds herself channeling memories not her own.

Kingdom of Shadows by Barbara Erskine

Set in the time of Scotland's Robert the Bruce, Clare is the wife of a City merchant banker but when she inherits the castle of Dunbuy, once the home of Isobel, the mistress of Robert the Bruce, she finds herself haunted by Isobel's dramatic life, which reflects the events in her own.

Ill add more when I remember them !

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 Post subject: Re: Historical Fiction--Scotland Style
PostPosted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:32 pm 
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I also wanted to throw out this two part series by Liz Curtis Higgs. It's based during the 2nd uprising:
Here Burns My Candle
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/here-bu ... rtis+higgs
Mine is the Night
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mine-is ... rtis+higgs

She also has really cool pix of Scotland on her site: http://www.lizcurtishiggs.com/Fiction/Night/Night.htm


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