The Bookseller of Inverness: a gripping historical thriller from the double prizewinning author

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Excellent historical fiction dealing with Bonnie Prince Charlie's attempts to retake the throne in 1745 and its years-long aftermath. Six years have now passed since he was wounded on the battlefield and although he escaped with his life, his face has been left badly scarred.

His father, whom he has not seen for years, a close confidante of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Teàrlach Eideard in Scots Gaelic) appears in Inverness. Eventually, though, the story gets going, with strong characterisation, a twisty plot and some great set-piece scenes. The Bookseller of Inverness is everything you could ask for from a historical thriller - gripping, immersive and filled with intriguing characters.

S.G MacLean writing paints to life the story in front of you and does an exceptional job with weaving facts and fiction together creating a truly memorable story.

Intermittently, I had been working on a non-crime, nineteenth-century novel based around the Black Isle, very close to where I live.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. An uneasy peace reigns in the Highlands now, enforced by the red-coated soldiers of the ruling Hanoverian King.

I would love to read more about Iain Ban MacGillivray, Ishbal, Hector and the other fascinating characters who come alive in these pages. This is a difficult and complex period of British history and yet it evoked the post Culloden Inverness and its inhabitants so clearly that I became totally engrossed. Six years later in 1752, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a very different and quiet life, he is no longer the outgoing man he used to be, and is working as a bookseller in Inverness, with his assistant Richard Dempster, and the talented bookbinder, Donald Mor.Hector is the most enjoyable character – a kind of adventurer, good-looking and charming and with an eye for the ladies, who have an eye for him too! But MacLean shows that there were good people and bad on both sides of the divide, and that honour wasn’t the sole preserve of the Jacobites. I wonder if closer to the time of these events of Scottish history more books were written featuring characters who were on the winning side.

A great sense of atmosphere in a city divided between Jacobites and Hanovrians, rich in historical detail and with an intriguing plot. Those dogs are, by seventeenth-century necessity, 'hounds', but I like to believe that in each of them beats the heart of a Labrador. A fabulous read from this author , quite history laden but that was right up my street , and the storyline brought it alive for me . I enjoy historical fiction and seeing the Bookseller of Inverness thought I would try Scottish History. They came to life in my mind, and, fictionalised in the pages of my book, took their place for me once again in the town where they, and I, had been born.He feigns death but then we meet him again several years later, now working as a bookseller of Inverness. She also incorporates some subplots that touch on wider topics such as the slave trade and indentured servitude. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The presence of many English soldiers is unnerving, some like Major Thornlie, polite and correct in his manner and others like Captain Dunne violent and uncouth.