Jane Lane

John Grahame, called 'Bonnie Dundee', was the Jacobite hero. Although devoted to duty, he casts ambition aside to stand alone for his King and the Stuart dynasty in leading the Highland clans to an astounding victory at Killiecrankie in 1689. From the quagmires of treachery and self-interest, the heroic soldier is described in this vivid glimpse of one man's determined genius and bravery in the face of cruelty and destruction. In this portrayal of the first Jacobite, John Grahame of Claverhouse, Jane Lane presents both the violence and colour of Jacobite rebellion. 'I read Jane Lane's books with mounting admiration for both their content and style...Merging fact and fiction into essential truth, she has produced novels of quite extraordinary emotional power and exciting narrative pace.' Author John Prebble

Bass Rock home to a brooding fortress precipitously perched on the rocky island guarding the Firth of Forth and gaol to incarcerated Jacobite prisoners. In the summer of 1691 four Jacobite soldiers, led by the intrepid Humphrey Craddocke surprised the governor and guards and drove them out of the castle. The English Government placed the island and fortress under siege. For almost three years the defenders repelled any attempt to retake the Castle and played one of the most astounding games of bluff in history. Can they survive and escape with honour as free men? A minor epic of Scottish History!!

In the savage cold of a February night, a company of soldiers obeyed the orders issued by William III to butcher a small branch of Clan Donald living in Glencoe. The tale of Government-sanctioned murder woven into a narrative featuring members of the family Donald. It creates strong characters on both sides of the tragedy which fuses the human costs with the official intolerance of the Scottish Highland clans of the period. Jane Lane has expanded a page of history into an epic in which courtesy and treachery, hospitality and betrayal, love and hate, are manifested by the men and women whose fate brought them together on that tragic winter night in 1692.