Margaret Elphinstone

• Aug-2001
• / Historical
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This vivid historical saga of Viking exploration follows the adventures of an intrepid 11th century woman who voyages to North America.11th century Iceland is a world where the old Norse gods are still invoked, even as Christianity gains favor, where...

• Jun-2003
• / Thriller
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An “ingenious, gripping, thoughtful’ novel of island adventure and psychological depth by the acclaimed author of The Sea Road (Boyd Tonkin, Independent, UK).After fraudulently winning a writing competition, Sidony Redruth is sent by her edi...

• Mar-2005
• / Historical
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In the early 1800s, Rachel Greenhow, a young Quaker, goes missing in the Canadian wilderness. Unable to accept the disappearance, her brother Mark leaves his farm in England, determined to bring his sister home. What follows is a gripping account of ...

• Feb-2007
• / Literary
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May, 1831, and on a tiny island off the Isle of Man a lighthouse provides a harsh living for an unusual family. Lucy and Diya, husbandless and with three children between them, watch over the ancient light on Ellan Bride. Meanwhile the Scottish engin...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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'We are the land. The elements that created the land live in our bodies. We are born, we bring to birth, and we die, and the land takes us. There is no difference. What is done to us is also done to the land, and what is done to the land is the thing...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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In A Sparrow's Flight, her second novel, first published in 1989, Margaret Elphinstone is already occupying her characteristic location on the borderlands which were to become familiar territory in her subsequent writing. The novel is set in the 'deb...

• Feb-2008
• / Fantasy
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This new edition of An Apple from a Tree, with additional stories previously published elsewhere, provides the reader with the opportunity to revisit some of Margaret Elphinstone's early writing. Themes and motifs which have come to characterise much...

• Feb-2010
• / Historical Romance
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Islanders is Margaret Elphinstone's first novel, written when she lived at Northbanks, Papa Stour in 1979. It is the author's expression of the seven years she lived in Shetland, during which she explored Shetland by land and sea, discovered the saga...

• Sep-2012
• / Action Adventure
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A “vivid tale” of prehistoric Scotland: “rival kin groups, loyalty, love and betrayal, salted by dangerous hunts and equally risky shamanistic ceremonies” (Adam Thorpe, The Guardian, UK).   In the Mesolithic period, Alaia and her family ...