Dance to the Storm will be published as a Kindle ebook this Thursday, 20th February, paperback and audiobook publication to follow. You can pre-order here. You don’t have to have read Gathering Storm first but if you would like to, the ebook version is on at 99p for a limited period to celebrate publication of...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018
Looking forward to speaking about When the Clyde Ran Red: A Social History of Red Clydeside at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in Charlotte Square next month. I’ll be on with cartographer John Moore who is talking about his beautiful and lavishly-illustrated book: The Clyde: Mapping the River. And now, what to wear? Fashionably-crumpled...
Christmas 2017
Over Christmas and New Year, the ebook version of my novel One Sweet Moment is available on Amazon UK for only 99p and on Amazon US for the equivalent in dollars and cents. If you fancy buying the book in paperback or the audio version, these are also available on both Amazon UK and Amazon...
Revisiting the Jacobites – The History Behind the History
On Thursday 12th October, from 18.30 – 20.00 (doors open 18.15), I’ll be one of a panel addressing different aspects of the 1745 Jacobite Rising at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. I’ll be talking about the women I wrote about in Damn’ Rebel Bitches: The Women of the ’45, Arran Johnston will...
Daft Friday — The Start of Yule in Scotland
Today is Daft Friday, two Fridays before Christmas Day, and traditionally the start of Yuletide celebrations in Scotland, stretching through to Hogmanay and the all-important seeing-in of the New Year. Daft Friday 1743 has been a day that has stretched for me. In fact, I am worn out after living through Daft Friday 1743,...
One Sweet Moment by Maggie Craig
This month, November, I’m showcasing my novel One Sweet Moment. It’s a love story, if not one for the faint-hearted. Life for a poor girl in 1820s Edinburgh could be difficult and dangerous and I wrote the book with the realities of life back then in mind. I call it romance noir. One Sweet...
Deep Within Edinburgh’s Underground Vaults
Edinburgh, 1822: Richard is a wealthy young medical student who lives in the opulent New Town. Kate works in a dingy oyster cellar below the South Bridge in Edinburgh’s Old Town, her only joy her young brother Andrew. In this extract from One Sweet Moment, she is reluctantly showing Richard around the gloomy vaults....