Hello, I’m delighted you found me! I’m a Scottish author inspired by history, landscape and the choices that shape ordinary lives.
My novels range from the upheavals of Reformation Scotland to contemporary stories of danger, recovery and fresh starts.
Here you’ll find my books, historical research, book group resources and updates from Scotland.
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Some Blogs
- Streets of St AndrewsA lovely reader writes asking if I can give more detail of the locations in my books. St Andrews, where my historical fiction novel based on real events, The Castilians, is set, is my home town so I …
- What did it mean to be ‘worth your salt’?In my saga The Seton Chronicles the family make their money through trade. I spent a fair amount of time trying to unpack just what Scotland would be trading across the North Sea (which was known as the …
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- Hidden Christians and JapanMy sister, who is the family genealogist, tells we have an ancestor who came to Kobe, Japan as a missionary from 1907 to 1920. Mostly our ancestors have been a rather dull lot – no marriage to a …
- Stirling Castle and La Belle ÉcossaiseOn a recent visit to Stirling Castle I met La Belle Écossaise hovering in Queen Mary of Guise’s chambers. She was not as discrete as one would expect from a lady in waiting and even told me that …