Allan Massie

• Jan-1982
• / Suspense
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It is 1978. Corrado Dusa is head of Italy's Christian Democrat Party and the country's Senior Minister. He is also considered to be the key figure in resolving the crisis of dissent and violence that permeates political life. But Dusa has bee...

• Aug-1987
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1990
• / General Fiction
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A story featuring a 15th-century Scottish border family. Few families were wilder than the Linsdales. Caught up in a web of violence and treachery, they shared in the rise of the mighty house of Douglas and struggled to escape its fall. The author al...

• Jul-1992
• / General Fiction
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Fran and Becky, two children of European parents growing up in Buenos Aires after World War II, must face the complex and destructive heritage of the Holocaust and understand the meaning of guilt and loyalty...

• 1993
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1993
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-1994
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-2003
• / Historical
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First novel in the Dark Ages trilogyTHE EVENING OF THE WORLD is set in the period of the barbarian invasions. Its hero is a young Roman nobleman named Marcus. He undergoes extraordinary experiences as he searches for meaning and stability in a twilig...

• Nov-2004
• / Fantasy
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A thrilling and highly original retelling of the Arthurian legend with a twist!It is the aftermath of the Roman occupation of Britain. Kings are now jockeying for position, for title, for land and for power. A young boy confounds the most famous knig...

• Jan-2009
• / General Fiction
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Third in Allan Massie's celebrated Dark Ages seriesA truly European monarch, Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and for some of that time king of the Lombards, too. From 800, when at Mass on Christmas day in Rome, Pope Leo III crowned...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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How well do we know other people - even when we all belong to a small ex-pat community in a foreign capital? Allan Massie's edgy and disturbing study of English-speaking alcoholics living in Rome examines this great literary theme - and does much mor...

• Jan-2010
• / Literary
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In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation, his suspicion that ther...

• Jul-2010
• / General Fiction
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A man returns to France to unravel the truth about his father’s actions during WWII in “a novel of scope, substance and strength all too rare today” (Spectator).   Widely acclaimed as Allan Massie’s finest novel, A Question of Loyalties ...

• Jan-2011
• / General Fiction
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Klaus, the novella that opens and, to some extent, dominates this collection, tells the story of Klaus Mann, son of Thomas, and in spite of the long shadow of so famous a father, an important novelist and political activist in his own right. His stru...

• May-2012
• / General Fiction
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• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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Klaus is a novella that recounts the last days of Klaus Mann's life, while referring back to the trials of the Mann family (Klaus being Thomas Mann's son) and Klaus's own autobiographical novel, Mephisto, one of his better known works partly because ...

• Jun-2014
• / Historical Mystery
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Winter. 1942-3. The war is turning against Germany on the Eastern Front. The Americans land in North Africa. Meanwhile, in Bordeaux, Superintendent Lannes - himself an object of suspicion, with one son in Vichy and another with de Gaulle's Free Frenc...

• Oct-2015
• / Historical Mystery
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• Jul-2018
• / Historical
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From the author of Caesar and The Sins of the Father, a fictional memoir of the celebrated Scottish Romantic writer and historical novelist. Allan Massie recreates the life and times of Sir Walter Scott, one of Scotland’s greatest writers, convinci...

• / General Fiction
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