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Margaret Thomson Davis
Book List in Order: 21 titles
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Burning Ambition
- Jul-1998
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An epic tale of lust and ambition, murder, treachery and revenge at the court of Mary, Queen of Scots. Marie Hepburn, illegitimate daughter of the Bishop of Moray, is only seventeen when she is promised in marriage to the repulsive, middle-aged Duke ...
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The Tobacco Lords Trilogy
- Jun-1999
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Beginning in Glasgow during the Jacobite Rising of 1745, The Tobacco Lords Trilogy is the epic story of two very different women - Annabelle Ramsay, the wilful and impetuous daughter of a rich Tobacco Lord, and Regina Chisholm, a child of the slums, ...
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Light and Dark
- Jun-2000
- / General Fiction
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Set in Edinburgh and West Lothian at the end of the Victorian era, Light & Dark is the powerful story of the Blackwood family - Lorianna, a beautiful young woman, married at sixteen to a considerably older man; Gavin, her austere and sanctimonious hu...
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The Clydesiders
- Sep-2001
- / Fantasy
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A powerful tale of love and loss, The Clydesiders is also a brilliant portrayal of Glasgow during World War I, skillfully evoking the atmosphere of the city and the lives of its people as they witness some of the most dramatic events of the twentieth...
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A Deadly Deception
- Sep-2005
- / Thriller
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Set in a Glasgow high-rise, A Deadly Deception centres on Mabel Smith who lives alone in one of the flats. Her selfish parents had used Mabel as a slave and they effectively ruined her life but now they are both dead. Mabel is now getting older and h...
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Double Danger
- Oct-2009
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Margaret Thomson Davis's new novel is a gripping saga with plenty of twists. Double Danger tells the story of Jessica McKay, who moves to Saudi Arabia to be with her new husband, Brian. At first it seems like paradise, but after the birth of thei...
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The Breadmaker's Saga
- May-2012
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The "Breadmakers Saga" follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNair's Bakery and the surrounding tenements, are all vividly and absorbingly depicted, a...
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The New Breadmakers
- Jan-2013
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The New Breadmakers is the long-awaited sequel to Margaret Thomson Davis' bestselling saga The Breadmakers - her classic trilogy chronicling the life and times of a Glasgow working-class community during the 1930s and '40s. Having survived everything...
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The Dark Side of Pleasure
- Jul-2013
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A powerful story of passion and rivalry set in early Victorian Glasgow, The Dark Side of Pleasure chronicles the rise and fall of two very different families, the Camerons - wealthy, respectable and secure, and the Gunnets - struggling to survive ami...
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The Clydesiders At War
In the summer of 1939, as the storm clouds of war gather over Glasgow, the Gourlays and the Cartwrights are preparing themselves for the challenges of an uncertain future. The two families - the hard working Gourlays in their modest tenement, and the...
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A Darkening of the Heart
In 18th-century Scotland, Alexander, a doctor and poet, and his snobbish sister Susanna are desperate to advance their social standing. And while Susanna unwittingly gets herself involved in some truly terrifying situations as a result, Alexander con...
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The Glasgow Belle
A Scottish girl is rescued from her abusive stepfather by the generous Earl of Kirklee, who treats her as his own daughter, but when his son arrives with his jealous wife to claim his inheritance, her peaceful world is shattered. By the author of BUR...
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The Gourlay Girls
In Glasgow at the beginning of the 1930s, the lives of two very different families are about to be changed forever by a tragedy that seems to defy explanation. In their splendid home in the West End, everything seems perfect in the comfortable, privi...
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In a Strange Land
When a large Pakistani family moves to a middle-class square in Glasgow, the genteel pretensions of the established residents are turned upside down. Alice Whitelaw has almost convinced her friends to follow in her footsteps and welcome the newcomers...
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