The Brow of the Gallowgate

Set in the 1890s, this story revolves around the Ogilvie family, and their relationship with three sisters who worked for them as housemaids. Set in Scotland and New Zealand, it is a story of love, infidelity and revenge.

Davidson, Doris

Romance

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Road to Rowanbrae

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

William Collins & Sons Ltd

The Three Kings

Contemporary

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

This family saga is set in Scotland and New Zealand, from late Victorian times to the aftermath of World War I. The story revolves around the Ogilvie family, and their relationship with three sisters who worked for them as housemaids. It is a tale of love, infidelity and revenge.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Imprint unknown

Wealthy 87-year-old spinster Janet Souter takes pleasure in taking up scandal about her neighbors. She also relishes refusing her two nephews the money they desperately need to bolster their struggling businesses. So when she acquires some arsenic to deal with rats in her garden, she decides to test them: whichever attempts to kill her will be her sole beneficiary; if both do, they will each get a half share of her substantial savings. Naturally she takes precautions to ensure that her life will be in no real danger, but news of her newly acquired poison spreads, sowing the seeds of murderous intent in several people. And one of them will succeed in silencing her forever...

Jam and Jeopardy

Mystery

Isis Large Print Books

Wealthy 87-year-old spinster Janet Souter takes pleasure in raking up scandal about her neighbours. She also relishes refusing her two nephews the money they desperately need to bolster their struggling businesses. So when she acquires some arsenic to deal with rats in her garden, she decides to test them: whichever attempts to kill her will be her sole beneficiary; if both do, they will each get a half share of her substantial savings. Naturally she takes precautions to ensure that her life will be in no real danger, but news of her newly acquired poison spreads, sowing the seeds of murderous intent in several people. And one of them will succeed in silencing her forever...

Jam And Jeopardy

Isis Large Print

Monday Girl

After her father's death, 10-year-old Renee and her mother are forced to take in two lodgers. Renee grows up weaving romantic fantasies around them, firstly the dependable Jack and later the charming Fergus. He cements her obsession with him by seducing her, then breaking her heart. With the advent of the Second World War, Renee is thrown into further turmoil as the two men are sent into action, leaving her to a whirlwind of RAF sergeants stationed in the area. She meets and falls in love with Glynn, and the pair decide to marry. However, something remains wrong in Renee's world...could her secret fear be the reason for her inability to find lasting happiness?

This is the extraordinary story of a remarkable woman. Doris Davidson was born in Aberdeen in 1922, the daughter of a master butcher and country lass. Her idyllic childhood was shattered in 1934 with the death of her father, after which, in order to make ends meet, her mother was forced to take in lodgers. In part due to her father s sudden death, Doris left school at fifteen and went to work in an office, gradually rising through the ranks until she became book-keeper. Marriage to an officer in the Merchant Navy followed in 1942, then divorce, then her second marriage. Her life took the first of two major changes in direction at the age of 41, when she went back to college to study for O and A levels, followed by three years at Teacher Training College. In 1967 she became a primary school teacher, and subsequently taught in schools in Aberdeen until she retired in 1982.Not content with a quiet retirement Doris embarked on a new career and became a writer, publishing her first work in 1990. Eight books later (and another one nearly finished), she is one of the country s best-loved romantic novelists and has sold well in excess of 200,000 copies of her books.In this engaging and candid autobiography, Doris Davidson recounts her growing up in Aberdeen in the 20s and 30s, the war years, her marriage and the unexpected paths her career has followed. With her novelist s skill, she brings into vivid focus a life of rich experience in a book every bit as riveting as her works of fiction.

A Gift From The Gallowgate

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Birlinn

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