The Bookseller of Inverness: a gripping historical thriller from the double prizewinning author

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The necessary information is supplied in an accessible form, and the intrigue keeps the reader’s interest peaked. And any World’s Fair is a great choice for time travel – personally I think I’d go for the Great Exhibition though. At the end of the book you'll notice a well detailed Author's Note, where the important historical details, concerning this period of history, are superbly documented. What is to follow is a fantastic and intriguing 18th Century story about loyalty and betrayal, honour and cowardice between clans versus clans, where self-preservation for family and betrayal towards close friends are common, and retributions against traitors are necessary in certain situations, and all this in a bid to survive a time of turmoil and gruesome death during the Jacobite risings, and the subsequent brutal quelling of these risings by the Duke of Cumberland. They came to life in my mind, and, fictionalised in the pages of my book, took their place for me once again in the town where they, and I, had been born.

Set in Inverness and the surrounding countryside in 1752, it tells the story of the remnants of the Jacobite cause.I think it’s because of something you mention about this one – that it helps if the reader already knows something about the history. The setting here is glorious – the smells, noises, language of the time are all here to soak into your conscious. The Bookseller of Inverness is a gripping historical thriller set in Inverness in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden from twice CWA award-winning author S. Note: My thanks to NetGalley and Quercus Books for providing me with a free electronic copy of this book for review purposes. I used my new time machine to travel back to the Chicago World Fair in 1893, and then it broke down.

I've never been to Inverness but this book was so well written I felt I could picture it really vividly. There was a detailed sense of the time period, and the tension of living in a post civil war society was effectively portrayed. With your knowledge of the Jacobites, I’m sure you’ll find this one easier to follow than The Seeker, but she doesn’t really explain things very well in this book either and I think without that knowledge it would probably be quite confusing!Set in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead – years later, he lives a quiet lift as a bookseller in Inverness.

I Know the basic facts of the 1715 and 1745;rebellions from school days and have actually trod on Culloden and other of Scotland’s historic sights being the history geek that I am.They wouldn’t let me on the plane because unfortunately when the aliens abducted me I was only wearing pyjamas and slippers. Edinburgh-based Charco Press, founded by Samuel McDowell and Carolina Orloff, aims to change the current literary scene to make room for a kind of literature that has been overlooked’ and ‘expose the UK reader to new and exciting voices. From that moment, it was impossible to disconnect the place in my mind from what had happened there. My ancestors fought on the Jacobite side at Culloden, and I find the history both tragic and fascinating.

I would love to read more about Iain Ban MacGillivray, Ishbal, Hector and the other fascinating characters who come alive in these pages.Oddly, despite this, I had a good idea of who both the avenger and the last victim were going to be, and I put this down to the fact that there weren’t enough credible possibilities. Anyone who has visited the place will know the atmosphere that envelops it to somehow cut away the intervening centuries.