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Scarlet Threads
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Published December 31, 1925
About the author
Maggie Craig
28 books89 followersI'm a Scottish writer of fiction and non-fiction and love the breathtaking beauty, dramatic history and legends of my Scottish homeland. Thanks to being born into a family of storytellers, I've been immersed in all this since early childhood. My non-fiction books include the definitive study of women's involvement in the 1745 Jacobite Rising, Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45, described by one critic as a 'modern classic.' Its companion volume is Bare-Arsed Banditti: The Men of the '45 . My most recent non-fiction book is One Week in April: The Scottish Radical Rising of 1820.
My Scottish family sagas are set in my hometown/s of Glasgow and Clydebank between the 1920s to the 1940s. I see them as love stories crossed with social history. Although I don't directly use the history of my own working-class family, my sagas are inspired by their struggles and triumphs.
I draw on my non-fiction research to ground my novels in authentic history. Set in 1820s Edinburgh, One Sweet Moment has been described by one reviewer as 'Romance with a capital R', which it most certainly is, although I've also been told that it's not for the faint-hearted. Life wasn't easy if you were a poor young woman back then and I felt the book had to reflect that. One Sweet Moment is also about Edinburgh and its Jekyll and Hyde nature, the parlours of the New Town and the underground vaults and oyster cellars of the Old Town. The love story of poor girl Catriona and wealthy young medical student Richard is set against the visit of King George IV to the city in 1822 and the dramatic Great Fire of Edinburgh of 1824.
Gathering Storm, a novel of Jacobite intrigue and romance, is the first of a suite of novels featuring the same intertwining cast of characters finding their way through the moral dilemmas, drama and battles of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. It's a passionate love story where enemies become lovers. All four novels in my Storm over Scotland have now been published. In order, they are Gathering Storm, Dance to the Storm, Storm Tossed Moon and On the Wings of the Storm.
As an avid reader, I love to read novels which might be described as intelligent escapism. I also love romantic suspense, the sort of books where you wonder how on earth the hero and heroine are going to make it through all the dangers and difficulties which beset them to the happy ending they deserve. Among my favourite authors are Georgette Heyer, Dorothy L Sayers, Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Erskine, Susanna Kearsley, Victoria Hodgson, Elly Griffiths and Nora Roberts. I also read a lot of non-fiction, particularly historical. Favourite periods include 18th century and World War 2 Britain and I love to read about the forgotten women of history.
My Scottish family sagas are set in my hometown/s of Glasgow and Clydebank between the 1920s to the 1940s. I see them as love stories crossed with social history. Although I don't directly use the history of my own working-class family, my sagas are inspired by their struggles and triumphs.
I draw on my non-fiction research to ground my novels in authentic history. Set in 1820s Edinburgh, One Sweet Moment has been described by one reviewer as 'Romance with a capital R', which it most certainly is, although I've also been told that it's not for the faint-hearted. Life wasn't easy if you were a poor young woman back then and I felt the book had to reflect that. One Sweet Moment is also about Edinburgh and its Jekyll and Hyde nature, the parlours of the New Town and the underground vaults and oyster cellars of the Old Town. The love story of poor girl Catriona and wealthy young medical student Richard is set against the visit of King George IV to the city in 1822 and the dramatic Great Fire of Edinburgh of 1824.
Gathering Storm, a novel of Jacobite intrigue and romance, is the first of a suite of novels featuring the same intertwining cast of characters finding their way through the moral dilemmas, drama and battles of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. It's a passionate love story where enemies become lovers. All four novels in my Storm over Scotland have now been published. In order, they are Gathering Storm, Dance to the Storm, Storm Tossed Moon and On the Wings of the Storm.
As an avid reader, I love to read novels which might be described as intelligent escapism. I also love romantic suspense, the sort of books where you wonder how on earth the hero and heroine are going to make it through all the dangers and difficulties which beset them to the happy ending they deserve. Among my favourite authors are Georgette Heyer, Dorothy L Sayers, Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Erskine, Susanna Kearsley, Victoria Hodgson, Elly Griffiths and Nora Roberts. I also read a lot of non-fiction, particularly historical. Favourite periods include 18th century and World War 2 Britain and I love to read about the forgotten women of history.
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