Doris Davidson

• Feb-2002
• / General Fiction
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Two young men from a remote Scottish village decide to make their fortunes in London, but can't escape their close ties to home or the girl they leave behind...Alistair Ritchie and Dougal Finnie have grown up in one of the most scenic villages in Sco...

• Sep-2004
• / Romance
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The Shadow of the Sycamores traces the fortunes of the Rae family, from Henry Rae's birth in 1871, when his drunken father, a blacksmith, forgets the name chosen for him, to his old age in the 1940s. We follow Henry's story as he leaves home ...

• Jun-2006
• / Suspense
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89-year-old spinster, Janet Stouter, takes pleasure in raking up scandals, old and new, about her neighbours. She also relishes refusing her two nephews the money they seek to bolster their businesses. When a retired glass worker give...

• Aug-2009
• / General Fiction
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Two men sit petrified on Christmas Eve at the thought of spending it in supernatural company; a young family makes a tense Cross-channel trip in fear of some unspecified threat; an old man contemplates jumping to his death at the thought of being evi...

• Aug-2009
• / General Fiction
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The three huge rocks rose from the bay of the tiny Scottish fishing village of Cullen. The locals called them 'The Three Kings', but to orphaned Katie Mair they were 'The Three Wise Men', her trusted friends and the only ones to whom she could tell h...

• Feb-2012
• / Historical
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Absorbing and fascinating' - Christine Marion Fraser 'It's a dismal day that doesn't include a dose of Doris' - Press and Journal The brow of the Gallowgate is where Albert Ogilvie buys his property in 1890 - the shop he has dreamed of for years, and...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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Young Cissie McGregor flees to Dundee with her stepmother Phoebe after her abusive, drunken father has destroyed their family. There, for a while, she finds happiness - with Bertram Dickson, son of the wealthy mill-owner who is Cissie's and Phoebe's ...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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The sequel to her novel 'Brow of the Gallowgate', Doris Davidson's latest novel follows the fortunes of the Ogilvie family through the World War II. Olive is determined to have her cousin Neil as her husband and won't allow anything or anyone to get ...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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It is 1915, and Elspeth Gray is young, unmarried, heavily pregnant and destitute in a strange city. Having no one else to turn to, she throws herself on the mercy of a compassionate woman she once met briefly on a train. Helen Watson and her husband,...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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Marion Cheyne is young, poor and ambitious. Her humble village roots and poorly paid job offer few opportunities and Marion feels trapped in a dead-end existence. So when an unexpected chance to escape presents itself, Marion grabs it, ignoring the m...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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Compelling' - Aberdeen Evening Express'Absorbing' - Manchester Evening NewsLizann Jappy is the daughter of a fisherman from the close community of Buckie. Having led a sheltered girlhood, her life is turned upside-down when it is discovered that t...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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Lizann Jappy is the daughter of a fisherman from the close community of Buckie, Scotland. Having led a sheltered girlhood, her life is turned upside-down when it is discovered that the man she loves is married -- for divorce is an unthinkable disgrac...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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A tender, uplifting family story set in Aberdeenshire, sweeping from the early years of this century to the present day. Mysie Lonie was only sixteen when her drunken father sold her for thirty pounds as wife to ugly, middle aged Jeems Duncan. Taken ...