60 Електронні книги від 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: Bruce Trilogy
Hero or traitor? King or outlaw? Discover the life of Scottish hero Robert the Bruce in this thrilling trilogy. Master storyteller Nigel Tranter tells the tale of the legendary warrior, and future …
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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: Wallace
At the end of the 13th century, Scotland was a blood-torn country suffering under the harsh domination of a tyrant usurper, the hated Plantagenet, Edward Longshanks. During the appalling violence of …
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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: Flame for the Fire
It was the outstanding beauty of his sister Janet with her flame-red hair which was to bring David Kennedy of Carrick to the attention of Scotland’s romantic and personable monarch, James IV. But …
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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: Children of the Mist
‘Our race is royal, ‘ is the proud claim of the Mac Gregors. Yet for all their history and fighting prowess, they are a small clan and their lands too close for comfort to the great Clan Campbell.By …
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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: Druid Sacrifice
King Arthur’s niece, sister to Gawain and daughter of King Loth, the devoutly Christian Princess Thanea was born to a life of high privilege.But her fortunes took a turn for the worse when she first …
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Nigel Tranter: Young Montrose
Nigel Tranter tells the fascinating yet desperate story of a gallant nobleman from the initial snub he received from Charles I, the monarch he is to devote his life to serving. A brilliant leader, a …
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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: Past Master
Past Master tells the story of Patrick, Master of Gray, in the era of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, and of his remarkable daughter Mary. With the end of Elizabeth I’s long reign in …
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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: Macbeth the King
Across a huge colourful canvas, ranging from the wilds of Scotland to Norway, Denmark and Rome, here is the story of the real Mac Beth.Set aside Shakespeare’s portrait: read instead of his struggle …
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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: Tapestry of the Boar
During the reign of Malcolm IV, King of the Scots, Hugh de Swinton andhis fellow mosstroopers helped keep the rampaging Galloway rebels atbay. But it was for his expertise in the killing of wild …
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Nigel Tranter: Flowers of Chivalry
Once again Scotland was fighting for her survival as a free andindependent nation.Robert the Bruce’s legacy, three years after his death in 1329, is indanger. With a five-year-old heir guarded by an …
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Nigel Tranter: True Thomas
Little is known about Thomas Learmonth of Ercildoune, vassal and esquireof the Earl of Dunbar, poet and prophesier known as ‘Thomas the Rhymer’.During the reign of the Scottish King Alexander III, a …
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Nigel Tranter: Margaret the Queen
First she was Margaret the refugee. A Saxon princess, sister of Edgar Atheling who, but for William the Conqueror, would have been King of England. She came to Scotland in 1069.Beautiful, sympathetic …
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Nigel Tranter: Mail Royal
A casket of incriminating letters from Mary, Queen of Scots. The letters would be an instrument of persuasion – or blackmail as others might call it. Whoever held them had a hold over the James VI …
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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: Stake in the Kingdom
Seventh son of the penurious Laird of Balfour, the fiercely ambitious David Beaton was determined to rise in the world – by whatever meansavailable. Never one to be burdened by scruples, he cynically …
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Nigel Tranter: Columba
Written by the author of The Bruce Trilogy, The Captive Crown, and Margaret the Queen, this is the story of a very human, fallible but courageous and indomitable man, born an Irish prince in 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: Highness in Hiding
The quashing of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 saw an end to the ambitions of the exiled house of Stuart. But somehow the young pretender, Prince Charles Edward, otherwise known as Bonnie Prince …
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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: Honours Even
In 1649 Charles II left his exile in the Netherlands and sailed to Scotland. Arriving at the small fishing village of Garmouth, he faced amixed reception from the minister of the Kirk.The exiled king …
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Nigel Tranter: Marchman
During the 16th century, the Borderland between Scotland and England was something of a world apart, with its own strange laws, beliefs and customs.Young John Maxwell, Warden of the West March, did …
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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: Warden of the Queen’s March
Only eighteen years old when she returned to Scotland to rule, the beautiful but unfortunate Mary Stuart was in dire need of protection: from the savage religious intolerance of the time, from …
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Nigel Tranter: Courting Favour
When his mother, the formidable Black Agnes, bequeathed him the troubled earldom of Moray in the far north of Scotland, John Cospatrick, younger son of the ninth Earl of Dunbar and March, found …
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Nigel Tranter: Chain of Destiny
Following the murder of his father at Bannockburn in 1488, fifteen-year-old James Stewart was crowned James IV of Scotland. Fromthose inauspicious beginnings, the inexperienced boy-king was to …
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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: Sword Of State
The youthful Alexander II, who ascended to the Scottish throne in 1214at the age of sixteen, was delighted to welcome to his court a young manof royal blood, heir to the ancient – and all but rival – …
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Nigel Tranter: Kenneth
Norse-Slayer and nation-builder, Kenneth, son of Alpin mac Eochaidh, Kingof Galloway, was the visionary who brought together the ancient kingdomsof Alba, Dalriada, Strathclyde and Galloway to create …
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Nigel Tranter: Lord of the Isles
By the power of his sword arm, his dragon fleet and his sheerpersonality, Somerled Norse Slayer carved an enduring name for himselfin Scottish legend.Inheriting his father’s shattered thanedom in …
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Nigel Tranter: Lord in Waiting
In 1460, when clan feuds were rife, and the threat of English invasionwas ever-present, James III, one of Scotland’s weakest monarchs, came tothe throne.Before long, John, Lord of Douglas, a born …
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Nigel Tranter: James, By the Grace of God
In the wake of the Battle of Flodden, Scotland was ruled in name only. The boy king, James V was at the mercy of ambitous rival factions, and beyond them, the ever-watchful, looming presence of Henry …
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Nigel Tranter: Rough Wooing
The final volume in the trilogy spanning the turbulent reign of King James V of Scotland. The young James, King of Scots is a beleaguered man. Still grief stricken at the untimely death of his queen, …
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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: Lord and Master
Born of one of Scotland’s noblest families, Patrick Gray was fascinating, irresistible, ambitious and ruthless. Involved in a daring plot to free the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots, and immersed in …
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Nigel Tranter: MacGregor’s Gathering
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, one of the most exciting and romantic periods of British history, the famous Rob Roy Mac Gregor and his gallant nephew Gregor, a fierce young Highlander …
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Nigel Tranter: Folly of Princes
Scotland at the dawn of the 15th century was a wretched spectacle. Whilethe feeble Robert III still clung to his throne, his kingdom rang withthe sound of conflict as his son and brother grappled for …
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Nigel Tranter: Price of a Princess
After young James the Third’s accession to the Scottish throne, theambitious Boyd family of Kilmarnock seized power in a bloodless coup. Mary Stewart, James’ eldest sister, was at first unwilling to …
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Nigel Tranter: Captive Crown
With the heir to the throne murdered, King Robert III a sick weakling, and his remaining son a child, Scotland and the Stewarts were in a badway three generations on from the great Bruce. But two …
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Nigel Tranter: Unicorn Rampant
The year 1617 was a fateful one for Scotland – and especially for young John Stewart of Methven, bastard son of the Duke of Lennox.King James VI of Scotland and I of England made a rare and …
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Nigel Tranter: Lords of Misrule
In turbulent 14th century Scotland, the ruling House of Stewart was a house divided, beset by hatred and jealousy. Descendants of the Bruce’s daughter, they only kept the throne by an astonishing …
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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 & Philip Tranter: No Tigers in the Hindu Kush
Philip Tranter and three friends drove a Land Rover 6, 000 miles overland from Scotland to Nuristan to explore some of the unknown Central Hindu Kush area. They set out to attempt the second ascent …
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Nigel Tranter: Enduring Flame
Angus Guthrie, Scottish sailor and undercover oil-prospector, gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to accompany an archaeological expedition into the forbidden heart of the Arabian desert. …
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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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