Elisabeth McNeill

• Mar-1989
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1990
• / Contemporary Romance
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  Generations of Scottish women bonded to farm work fall short of their dreams, but one might break away to follow her heart in this historical saga. Lark is a much-loved forces sweetheart spreading comfort as she sings in the music halls while ...

• Jan-1991
• / Contemporary Romance
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  A high-born lady and her servant girl defy scandal with friendship and courage in this historical Scottish saga based on true events. Veronica Hay is an acclaimed beauty, but her downward spiral begins the moment she enters a loveless marriage...

• Dec-1993
• / Historical Romance
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In the time of the Crusades, land meant power, heirs ensured survival... and the wrong word could hill as easily as a sword.... Beautiful, flaxen-haired Scholastique is heir to the vast landholdings of her dying father, a man so desperate to live ...

• Jul-1999
• / Mystery
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• Nov-2003
• / Mystery
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• Jan-2008
• / General Fiction
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The streams ran red, choked with the blood of the Scottish people . . . - James IV of Scotland was the most charismatic but also the most doomed of the Stewart family to sit on the Scottish throne. Brilliantly clever, handsome and daring, he disdaine...

• Aug-2008
• / General Fiction
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  Three women in a Scottish fishing village look toward the future after a devastating tragedy in this life-affirming novel inspired by historical events. After a catastrophic storm tore through the village of Eyemouth in 1881, the villagers hav...

• Dec-2008
• / General Fiction
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An evocative novel exploring the life of Mary Queen of Scots - Nathan, a pedlar and seller of embroidery threads, first sets his eyes on the queen as an infant being crowned at Stirling Castle. He follows her life, being one of the many who are drawn...

• Mar-2010
• / General Fiction
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Entwined in history, separated by fate . . . Bonnie Prince Charlie, having fled Scotland in disguise after a doomed attack on the English, with the selfless help of Flora, the poor shepherdess, is now living in isolated comfort in London, whilst ...

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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In the 1960s, three starry-eyed young women called Jess, Joan and Jackie, meet in Bombay when their husbands go to work in the Indian city. They are happy and excited at the prospect of living abroad and do not believe a cynical member of the expatri...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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The oldest village in Scotland is about to be invaded -- it is 1853 and the railway is coming to Camptounfoot. Emma Jane Wylie is determined to fight for the realization of her father’s dream -- the construction of the railway bridge that will carr...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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Opening with the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879, and extending through World War II, Elisabeth McNeill's fourth novel is a Scottish saga built around the city of Dundee. Lizzie Mund is fated to become the only woman jute mill owner in the city, placing ...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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Thirteen years have passed since the railway came to the Borders, bringing changes that would radically alter the lives of the people who lived there. Yet the steam train was not the only legacy from the men who built the railway -- in their wake the...

• Dec-2021
• / General Fiction
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  A wealthy brewer and his wife lose everything but find a wealth of friendship when forced to start anew in this nineteenth-century Scottish family saga. When Brabazon Nairn’s family make their home in one of the tiny flats of Perseverance Pl...

• / General Fiction
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Roberta Maling-Smith, known by everyone as Baby, has lived in splendour all her life in Bombay, but is as vulnerable to heartache as the next girl. The charming young Australian, Dennis Gilles, seems just the person to mend her broken heart. But what...

• / General Fiction
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Sir Henry Gwillim, his wife Elizabeth and her frivolous sister, Polly, sailed from Portsmouth on a freezing February day in 1801 to a new life in the East. Sir Henry had been appointed to an influential judiciary post in the East India Company. Seven...

• / General Fiction
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The future looks rosy for Dee and Ben Carmichael on their return to Bombay. Ben's career is flourishing and Dee is working as a correspondent for the Daily Herald. Then Dee interviews a man arrested for attempting to smuggle gold through Santa Cruz a...

• / General Fiction
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Rosa Makepeace is a young, wannabe reporter on Edinburgh's evening paper, the Dispatch. It is New Year's Eve 1955 and she receives news of the murder of a local prostitute. Rosa, fuelled by her ambition for a scoop, is determined to unearth all she c...

• / General Fiction
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A tale of friendship and compassion in India
Following the massacre at Cawnpore in 1857, Emily and her sister Lucy are captured and held at the Bibighar, the house of the Indian mistress of the British Nabob. Years later, in 1919, a young British ...

• / General Fiction
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Little does Dee Carmichael know as she prepares for the final Bombay expatriates' annual cocktail party what surprises and horrors the evening is to bring. Encouraged by an anonymous tip-off to revisit an old case, police inspector Tommy Morrison has...

• / General Fiction
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Bombay, 1959: when Monica Fernandes meets movie producer Stevie Stone, she thinks she may have found the rich husband she's been looking for. Meanwhile, Dee and Ben Carmichael are expecting their first child, but receive worrying news from the fa...

• / General Fiction
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  A young woman yearns for freedom when her father plans to marry her off to man she doesn’t love in this nineteenth-century Scottish family saga. Odilie Rutherford is known in the small Scottish town of Lauriston for two things -- her beauty,...

• / General Fiction
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  When a storm decimates a Scottish fishing village, the surviving women band together to find hope in this nineteenth-century historical saga based on true events. It is 1881, and when a violent storm devastates the Scottish fishing village of ...

• / General Fiction
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Lambeth, 1878. Amelia, sentenced to 25 years hard labour for causing the death of her mother maintains that she died from natural causes. Now, upon her release, sinister facts emerge about her mother. Through the voices of Amelia, her daughter Daisy,...

• / General Fiction
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When Ben Carmichael dies of a heart attack on a business trip to Singapore, his wife, Dee -- now his widow -- is devastated. She is left financially as well as emotionally impoverished and though her friends, the eccentric Josie, the stalwart Madelei...