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Double Danger (Paperback)
Margaret Thomson Davis
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Margaret Thomson Davis's new novel is a gripping saga with plenty
of twists. Double Danger tells the story of Jessica McKay, who
moves to Saudi Arabia to be with her new husband, Brian. At first
it seems like paradise, but after the birth of their two children,
she feels threatened by terrorist attacks on the luxurious compound
where they live and decides she must return home with the twins,
settling in an estate that Brian has inherited in the Campsie Hills
near Glasgow. It is agreed that Brian will only spend his leave
from his highly paid job in Saudi with his family until he retires.
Patrick, a live-in Irish gardner, is employed to clear the wild
overgrown land of the estate. He is charming to Jessica but soon
the children find out what he is really like. And the danger
begins. Patrick's charming manner conceals sinister schemes and
when a terrible accident befalls their father on his way home to
see the family the children fear the worst. Double Danger is
vintage Margaret Thomson Davis - a story of suspense, betrayal and
murder.
With a handsome police officer for a husband and a brand new house
in a quiet, secluded street bordering Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Mae
Kelly appears to have it all. But appearances can be deceptive, and
Mae soon finds the demands of living at 1 Waterside Way are more
than she bargained for. Glasgow in the 1970s is also proving to be
a challenging place to live for some of her neighbours. All Paul
Brownlee and Clive Westley want to do is live together in peace but
the spiteful Reverend Denby is determined to make sure that won't
happen in Waterside Way. Meantime, Charlotte Arlington-Jones and
her friend Gemma Ford are bitterly opposed to having an Asian
family on the street but when her own daughter falls in love with
an Asian boy, prejudices on both sides will test everyone to the
limit as families are torn apart. And down the road, Doris McIvor
is struggling to care for her ailing mother and fears she may end
up losing her own mind. As secrets are exposed and beliefs are
challenged, each household on Waterside Way must face up to its
problems and find new ways to survive.
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Red Alert (Paperback)
Margaret Thomson Davis
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R312
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Red Alert is the story of the Price family and is set in a Glasgow
fire station and in the world-famous Glasgow School of Art. Kirsty
Price is a nice, ordinary girl and works in the fire station
serving food and drink to the firefighters. She's happy in her work
and her life except for the fact that she's also the daughter of
Simon Price, an artist and tutor at the Glasgow School of Art. He
is a notorious bully, both to his students and his family,
including Kirsty and her brother Johnny who is plagued with
ill-health. When Johnny starts hanging around with a dubious couple
who work as croupiers in the local casino he accepts a job from
them looking after their flat and Kirsty and her firefighter
boyfriend, Greg McFarlane, start to worry about him. Then Greg
phones to say that he has been attending a fatal road traffic
accident and the car involved is Johnny's. The family is devastated
but soon after Johnny's funeral, there's a knock at the door and
Kirsty staggers back in shock when she sees who's standing in the
shadows outside. But it's just the start of a chain of events that
will tear the Price family apart. Red Alert is the compelling story
of a Glasgow family which, to the outside world, looks like any
other normal family but is riven with tensions and problems which
escalate into a nightmare for Kirsty, Greg and her family.
Goodmans of Glassford Street is the story of a successful but
old-fashioned family department store and the lives and conflicts
of the people who work in it, including the strong-willed matriarch
Abigail Goodman. Douglas Benson, Abigail's son-in-law, is
determined to gain control of the store and completely modernise
it. He becomes more and more ruthless and devious in his methods to
oust Abigail but Abigail is determined to hold on to the business
and keep it as it is. She and her late husband, Tom, had built the
business up together. All her memories of her much-loved husband
are tied up with the store. As the struggle for control of the
store escalates, Abigail's son John presents the family with
another crisis. A serial killer is stalking the closes and wynds of
Edinburgh and it looks like John may be a suspect. It's a bitter
blow to the Goodman family at an already uncertain time. Goodmans
of Glassford Street is a powerful story of a family torn apart by
personal conflict and the struggle for control of the business and
of one woman's determination to protect both her family and her
life's work.
A Darkening of the Heart is set in eighteenth-century Scotland. It
contrasts the harsh life in the countryside, where social
opportunities are few and far between, with life in the teeming
streets of Edinburgh, where, on the surface, the bawdy and the
proper seem poles apart but, in reality, they seep into one another
on all kinds of different levels. It is in this world of sometimes
sham respectability that brother and sister Alexander and Susanna
try to advance their social standings. Alexander has qualified as a
doctor but this is not enough for him - he has ambitions to become
a famous poet. Snobbish Susanna also aims to climb the social
ladder but, as a woman, her only hope of doing so is by finding
herself a wealthy husband. Her drive for money and position leads
her to become caught up in some truly terrifying situations that
end up warping her character and her outlook on life. What makes
this a cut above the usual historical romantic fiction is that one
of the main characters is none other than Robert Burns. Margaret
Thomson Davis has skilfully interwoven known events from the poet's
life into the fictional world inhabited by Alexander and Susanna to
stunning and often moving effect. Burns's sexual magnetism and the
ease with which he got along with people from all sorts of
backgrounds are normally seen as positive attributes but here we
see how they could lead to exploitation and cruel deception at the
hands of those Burns believed to be his friends. In addition to the
narrative, Margaret Thomson Davis includes songs, poems and letters
by the bard and the seamless way these fit in with events in the
novel is evidence of a storyteller at her masterly best.
The New Breadmakers is the long-awaited sequel to Margaret Thomson
Davis' bestselling saga The Breadmakers - her classic trilogy
chronicling the life and times of a Glasgow working-class community
during the 1930s and '40s. Having survived everything that the
Depression and the Second World War has thrown at them, the people
of McNair's bakery and the surrounding tenements are now facing an
uncertain future. With the Coronation of 1953, a new age is
beginning, and all is by no means well in the lives of the
breadmakers. Catriona McNair's husband is making her life a misery
and she decides to take drastic action; her friends Julie and Sammy
have become involved in a search for a long-lost daughter; Alec
Jackson, the happy-go-lucky reformed philanderer, finds himself
caught up in one of Glasgow's worst tragedies; and the youngsters
are challenging convention in the name of romance. The New
Breadmakers is the wonderfully evocative story of these and a host
of other colourful Glasgow characters, as they live through the
extraordinary changes of the 1950s and '60s.
Marie Hepburn, illegitimate daughter of the Bishop of Moray, is
only seventeen when she is promised in marriage to the repulsive
Duke of Glasgow. But this proves to be only the start of Marie's
troubles. A powerful story of romance and rivalry, friendship and
bitter hatred.
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