Jessica Stirling Livres

Glasgow in the 1920s is the setting for Jessica Stirling's new family saga - a time of hard adjustments to a harsh new world.

Seventeen years have passed and the Lanarkshire mining village of Blacklaw has weathered both depression and the driving ambition of its coalmaster. But at last, falling wages have driven the miners to desperate rebellion... In Edinburgh, Drew Stalker has become Scotland's most eminent young advocate, with the highest honours within his grasp. Only scandal can bring him down - and scandal in the form of his bastard son is about to re-enter his life. His sister Mirrin faces a different threat to her hard-won respectability. As Tom Armstrong's eyesight fails and her farm's future become uncertain, Mirrin must draw on all her courage to survive. The Stalker Trilogy: 'Family ties, family strengths and weaknesses, ambition, greed loyalty and love . . . the story is compelling.' Daily Telegraph 'I would strongly recommend it to anyone with a taste for family sagas.' Scotsman

In this fourth and final novel of the quartet that began with The Good Provider, the author concludes the story of Kirsty and Craig Nicholson. Their son is struck down with polio, which causes Craig to become less proud, but moves Kirsty to seek comfort from her business partner.

The third novel in the wonderful Beckman trilogy takes Holly Beckman's story into the dark days of World War II.

Concluding the trilogy that began with THE ISLAND WIFE and continued with THE WIND FROM THE HILLS. schovat popis

Elspeth and Anna Patterson of Balnesmoor have married well: Elspeth to a wealthy wool merchant, Anna to the son of a respected factor. But they are not happy. The two married sisters, leading oddly parallel lives, find themselves entanglement in a web of infidelity, scandal, and heartache in the midst of Wellington's Peninsular War on the continent.

Set in the harsh environment of a Lanarkshire mining village during the 1870s, this second novel in the Stalker Trilogy delves deeper into the lives and struggles of the community. Following the events of The Spoiled Earth, it explores themes of resilience and hardship as characters navigate their challenging realities against a backdrop of social and economic turmoil. The narrative promises to further unravel the dark secrets and complex relationships that define life in Blacklaw.

The second novel in the wonderful Beckman trilogy takes the story of Holly Beckman into London's 1930s

A wonderful story of love, intrigue and snobbery set in Ayrshire in the age of Robert Burns

The Second World War hits home to a scattered East End family in new and unexpected ways in the third volume of this series about Britain under siege.