The Wolf of Dalriada
Gaelic calls spin a web through the mist in arcs of soft sound. Fear unsteadies the unseen flocks on the scrub heather hillside as men and dogs weave a trap around them in the darkling night. Once the flocks are penned, then the lanterns are turned towards the south. The watchers wait in silence.
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It is 1793… As Europe watches the French Revolution’s bloody progress, uneasy Scottish landowners struggle to secure their wealth and power. And, in Dalriada – the ancient Kingdom of Scotland – fractured truths, torn loyalties and atrocities are rife. Can anyone ride the maelstrom of these dangerous times? Only, it seems, Malcolm Craig Lowrie, the legendary Wolf of Dalriada.
In remote Argyll, people cry out for protection against the evil of the Clearances. But the young laird is also drawn into the tragedy of the beautiful Frenchwoman, Adelaide de Fontenoy, staked as a child on the turn of a card and now living in thrall to her debauched captor, Sir William Robinson.
Can the Wolf of Dalriada safeguard his people? Can the Wolf rescue the woman he loves? Can the Wolf defeat enemies who, like the spirit of Argyll’s Corryvreckan Whirlpool, threaten to engulf them all?
Written with a blend of mysticism and intrigue, The Wolf of Dalriada portrays how people react in a time of savage cultural change – and survive!
PUBLISHED 28th November 2016
ISBN 9781785899904
| Date | Title | Tag (if Necessary) | Author(s) | Publisher (UK) | Publisher US | ||
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1716 |
A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland | Martin Martin | |||||
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1775 |
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Samuel Johnson | Penguin Books 1984 | Penguin Putnam | Peter Levi | ||
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1786 |
The Journal of a tour to the Hebrides | James Boswell | “ | “ | |||
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1790 |
Letters written in France to a Friend in England | Containing Various Anecdotes relative to the French Revolution | Helen Maria Williams | Broadview Literary Texts | Neil Fraistat & Susan S Lanser | ||
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1792 |
A Journal of the Terror | Jean-Baptiste Clery & Abbe de Firmont | The Folio Society 1955 | Sidney Scott | |||
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1794 |
The Journal of a Spy in Paris | During the Reign of Terror January – July 1794 | Raoul Hesdin | Bibliobazaar | CRL Fletcher | ||
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1963 |
The Highland Clearances | John Prebble | Penguin Books | ||||
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1964 |
Paris in The Terror | Stanley Loomis | J B Lippincott Company | ||||
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1968 |
The Life and Times of Robespierre | Portraits of Greatness | Luigi Mario Pizzinelli | Paul Hamlyn | Paul Hamlyn | Enzo Orlandi | |
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1969 |
Daily Life in England in the Reign of George III | Andre Parreaux | |||||
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1987 |
The Auld Scots Tongue | Cleishbotham the Younger | Lang Syne | ||||
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1989 |
The Oxford History of the French Revolution | William Doyle | Oxford | ||||
| 1993 (Revised) | The Lonely Lands | A Guidebook to Argyll . . . | Tom Atkinson | Luath Press Ltd | |||
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1994 |
A Walk to the Western Isles | AfterBoswell and Johnson | Frank Delaney | HarperCollinsPublishers | |||
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1993 |
Paris | An Architectural History | Anthony Sutcliffe | Yale University Press | |||
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1996 |
The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles | Ian Armit | University of Edinburgh | ||||
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2003 |
The Magical Crone | Celebrating the wisdom of later life | Jennifer Reif and Marline Haleff | Citadel Press | |||
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2004 |
Perdita | The Life of Mary Robinson | Paula Byrne | Harper Perennial | |||
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2006 |
Queen of Fashion | What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution | Caroline Weber | Picador | |||
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2009 |
The Lore of Scotland | A Guide to Scottish Legends | Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill | Random House Books | |||
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2012 |
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen | Sarah Jane Downing | Shire Library | ||||
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2015 |
Landmarks | Robert Macfarlane | Hamish Hamilton |
2016 The Highland Clearances Eric Richards. Birlinn
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