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Macbeth

a novel
2012
A fictional retelling of William Shakespeare's classic play "Macbeth," the story of a Scottish nobleman who plots to kill the king of Scotland in order to claim the throne for himself.

Royal road to Fotheringhay

a novel
2004
Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Mary Stuart, who, at six days old, became Queen of Scotland, and spent her childhood in France before returning to her birth country to claim her right to the throne.

Lonely werewolf girl

2008
Teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is pursued through the streets of London by hunters armed with silver bullets, while her sister, the Werewolf Enchantress, is busy designing clothes for the Fire Queen and, in the Scottish Highlands, a feud is brewing.

The tragedy of Macbeth

2008
Presents a sequel to Shakespeare's "MacBeth" in free verse, in which, ten years after the Dane's death, Malcolm is haunted by ghosts as well as the witches' prophecy that a line of Scottish kings would spring from Banquo's seed.

Fleshmarket

2003
In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.

Mary, Queen of Scots, and the murder of Lord Darnley

2009
Uses historical documents to attempt to solve the mysterious death of Lord Darnley, whose murder led to Mary, Queen of Scots, ruin and has baffled historians for centuries.

The Witch of Clatteringshaws

2006
Dido Twite travels to Scotland and, aided by Woodlouse and Malise, the Witch of Clatteringshaws, seeks a suitable heir to the throne who can replace her friend Simon and relieve him of the burden of being king of England.

Little house in the Highlands

2007
An abridged version of the childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of six-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Kidnapped; being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751

1971
The adventures of a sixteen-year-old orphan who was kidnapped by his villainous uncle but later escaped and became involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

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