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Allan Massie
(b.1938)Allan Massie is an author and journalist, educated at Glenalmond and Trinity College, Cambridge. He has written some 30 books, most of them novels. A Question of Loyalties won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award in 1989. As a journalist he has been The Scotsman's chief fiction reviewer since 1976 and a political columnist for The Sunday Times, The Scotsman, The Daily Telegraph and the Scottish Daily Mail. He currently writes a rugby column for The Scotsman and a literary one for The Spectator
Series
Question of Loyalties
A Question of Loyalties (1989)
The Sins of the Father (1991)
Shadows of Empire (1997)
A Question of Loyalties (1989)
The Sins of the Father (1991)
Shadows of Empire (1997)
Dark Ages
1. The Evening of the World (1999)
2. Arthur the King (2003)
3. Charlemagne and Roland (2007)
1. The Evening of the World (1999)
2. Arthur the King (2003)
3. Charlemagne and Roland (2007)
Bordeaux
1. Death in Bordeaux (2010)
2. Dark Summer in Bordeaux (2012)
3. Cold Winter in Bordeaux (2014)
4. End Games in Bordeaux (2015)
1. Death in Bordeaux (2010)
2. Dark Summer in Bordeaux (2012)
3. Cold Winter in Bordeaux (2014)
4. End Games in Bordeaux (2015)
Novels
Change and Decay in All Around I See (1978)
The Last Peacock (1980)
Ill Met by Gaslight: Five Edinburgh Murders (1980)
The Death of Men (1981)
One Night in Winter (1984)
Let the Emperor Speak: A Novel of Caesar Augustus (1987)
The Hanging Tree (1990)
These Enchanted Woods (1993)
The Ragged Lion (1994)
King David (1995)
Antony (1997)
Nero's Heirs (1999)
Caligula (2003)
The Thistle and the Rose (2005)
Surviving (2009)
The Last Peacock (1980)
Ill Met by Gaslight: Five Edinburgh Murders (1980)
The Death of Men (1981)
One Night in Winter (1984)
Let the Emperor Speak: A Novel of Caesar Augustus (1987)
The Hanging Tree (1990)
These Enchanted Woods (1993)
The Ragged Lion (1994)
King David (1995)
Antony (1997)
Nero's Heirs (1999)
Caligula (2003)
The Thistle and the Rose (2005)
Surviving (2009)
Collections
Non fiction
Muriel Spark (1979)
The Caesars (1983)
Portrait of Scottish Rugby (1984)
Colette (1986)
101 Great Scots (1987)
Byron's Travels (1988)
Glasgow (1989)
The Novel Today, 1970-89 (1990)
Edinburgh (1994)
Eric Linklater: A Critical Biography (1999)
History of Edinburgh (1999)
Scottish Cultural Identity (2006)
The Royal Stuarts (2010)
Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns (2013)
The Caesars (1983)
Portrait of Scottish Rugby (1984)
Colette (1986)
101 Great Scots (1987)
Byron's Travels (1988)
Glasgow (1989)
The Novel Today, 1970-89 (1990)
Edinburgh (1994)
Eric Linklater: A Critical Biography (1999)
History of Edinburgh (1999)
Scottish Cultural Identity (2006)
The Royal Stuarts (2010)
Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns (2013)
Allan Massie recommends
After Flodden (2013)
Rosemary Goring
"After Flodden is a tremendous romance, a tale of blood, slaughter, treachery, devotion, and adventure."
To Heaven By Water (2009)
Justin Cartwright
"I doubt if there's a better English novelist of his generation."
Crossing the Lines (2003)
(Soldier's Return, book 3)
Melvyn Bragg
"Enthralling, a joy to read ... immensely satisfying, written with honesty and imagination ... [it] enriches the reader's life."
Soldiers of Salamis (2003)
Javier Cercas
"... one of the few great books to have been made out of the madness of the mid-20th Century..."
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