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Allan Massie Books In Order

Bordeaux Books In Publication Order

  1. Death in Bordeaux (2010)
  2. Dark Summer in Bordeaux (2012)
  3. Cold Winter in Bordeaux (2014)
  4. End Games in Bordeaux (2015)

Dark Ages Books In Publication Order

  1. The Evening of the World (1999)
  2. Arthur the King (2003)
  3. Charlemagne and Roland (2009)

Imperial Books In Publication Order

  1. Augustus / Let the Emperor Speak (1986)
  2. Tiberius (1991)
  3. Caesar (1993)

Question Of Loyalties Books In Publication Order

  1. A Question Of Loyalties (1989)
  2. The Sins of the Father (1991)
  3. Shadows of Empire (1997)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Change And Decay In All Around I See (1978)
  2. The Last Peacock (1980)
  3. Ill Met By Gaslight (1981)
  4. The Death of Men (1981)
  5. One Night in Winter (1984)
  6. The Hanging Tree (1990)
  7. These Enchanted Woods (1993)
  8. The Ragged Lion (1994)
  9. King David (1995)
  10. Antony (1997)
  11. Nero’s Heirs (1999)
  12. Caligula (2003)
  13. The Thistle and the Rose (2005)
  14. Surviving (2009)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Klaus (2014)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Edinburgh and The Borders, In Verse (1983)
  2. Klaus and Other Stories (2010)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Muriel Spark (1979)
  2. The Caesars (1983)
  3. A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (1984)
  4. Colette (1986)
  5. 101 Great Scots (1987)
  6. Eisenstaedt’s Aberdeen (1987)
  7. The Novelist’s View of the Market Economy (1988)
  8. Byron’s Travels (1988)
  9. Glasgow (1989)
  10. The Novel Today (1990)
  11. Edinburgh (1994)
  12. The History of Selkirk Merchant Company, 1694-1994 (1994)
  13. Eric Linklater (1999)
  14. Scottish Cultural Identity (2006)
  15. The Royal Stuarts (2010)
  16. Life & Letters (2013)
  17. Nevertheless (2014)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. P.E.N. New Fiction II (1987)

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Allan Massie Books Overview

Death in Bordeaux

In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation, his suspicion that there is a political motive for the murder seems justified. In defiance of authority, he continues working on the case. And then another body is found…
Meanwhile, the Superintendent has other troubles. His eldest son, Dominique, is at the Front, his wife, Marguerite, is depressed, and when the Battle of France breaks out, Bordeaux is filled with refugees fleeing the war. Suddenly civilian crime seems of little importance compared to the chaos that ensues. As Bordeaux becomes an occupied city, Lannes’ chief suspect is untouchable, protected by a relative in the Vichy government. Lannes himself is threatened with blackmail on account of his Jewish friends and Dominique is taken prisoner. Common sense should make Lannes abandon the investigation, but honour and a natural obstinacy lead him to pursue it. However, as events turn increasingly bleak, Lannes begins to doubt it can ever be solved…

The Evening of the World

Set in the period of the barbarian invasions. Its hero is a young Roman nobleman named Marcus, the son, according to one legend, of the Archangel Michael. Marcus undergoes extraordinary experiences as he searches for meaning and stability in a twilight world where the old gods are dead or dying, but their mysteries still attract, and the new religion is threatened by new barbarisms. Marcus’s journeys take him over the empire, from Italy to Greece and Byzantium, to the camp of Alaric the Goth and the wastes of the northern forests, from a Christian monastery to the horde of Attila the Hun. His is a world where everything is possible and nothing solid, a world that is full of danger and mystery, of love and terror, of simple faith and abstruse philosophy, of cruelty, strange perversions, treachery and undaunted courage.

Arthur the King

At the top of his form, historical novelist Allan Massie revisits Britain in the dark years after the collapse of Rome, when the land is being ravaged by bitter struggles for power among warring kings. Or so it is until the arrival of Wart, a servant boy who has been tutored by a troupe of strolling players as well as by the politically astute magus Merlin. Reinventing old stories like that of the sword in the stone, Massie replaces the magic in Merlin’s wondrous deeds with natural philosophy. In the often-incredible stuff of Arthurian legend and sixth-century history, Massie seeks out more mythic truths as romance confronts unheroic realities in Wart’s transformation into the statesman-king Arthur. In Massie’s tale, too, Arthur’s marriage to Guinevere is a matter of political convenience. Lancelot is a sickly neurotic with little sense of honor. Mordred hides behind religious piety as he undermines Arthur’s kingdom with a military dictatorship. An increasingly troubled and isolated monarch-as unsympathetic to his thuggish knights’ lust for battle as he is to their quest for the Holy Grail-Arthur does have one long-loyal friend. His name is Cal-a common man blessed with common sense-and an invention of Massie’s brilliant own mind.

Charlemagne and Roland

Third in Allan Massie’s celebrated Dark Ages series

Augustus / Let the Emperor Speak

The first in an acclaimed series of historical novels including Tiberius and Caesar reconstructs the lost memoirs of Augustus, recounting the life of the founder of the Roman Empire in his own frank, forceful style. PW.

Tiberius

The second of a trilogy of ‘Roman’ novels. ‘Augustus’ is the first book in the trilogy and was the winner of the Saltire Society/Scotsman Book of the Year Award. The author also wrote ‘The Last Peacock’, which won the Frederick Niven Award in 1981, ‘The Death of Men’ and ‘A Question of Loyalties’.

A Question Of Loyalties

This superb book engages with all the complexities and ambiguities of loyalty, nationality, love and duty as they are put under threat by betrayal, by errors of judgement, or just by friendship in the historical wound that was occupied France. Etienne de Balafre, half French, half English and raised in South Africa, returns to post-war France to unravel the tangled history of his own father Lucien – was he a patriot who may have served his country as best he could in difficult times, or a treacherous collaborator in the Vichy government? This subtle and moving novel, rife with the anguish of hindsight and the irony of circumstance, explores the ties between fathers and sons and the pains of love and duty in a period in European history that is still characterised by wilful denial and hatred.

Shadows of Empire

Great grandson of a millionaire and son of a cabinet minister, Alec Allan was to have been a poet, but instead he became a journalist. Now in old age, his memories carry him from a mansion near Oxford back to Berlin in the 1930’s, the Spanish Civil War, and the Nuremberg Trials. In this panoramic book, Allan Massie has created an unforgettable picture of a ruling class gone soft.

Antony

Standing on the verge of ruin, Mark Antony dictates his memoirs to his secretary Critias, who contributes an acerbic running commentary as Antony relives his struggle with Octavian for mastery of the Roman Empire in the wake of Caesar’s murder, his infatuation with Cleopatra and his obsession with the East. A tragi comedy of ambition and self indulgence, passion and valour, Antony forms a triumphant conclusion to Allan Massie’s acclaimed Roman Quartet.

Caligula

Gaius Caligula is known as the mad emperor, the one who made his horse a consul. He was violent and vicious, a murderer and guilty of committing incest with his sisters. Yet, when he succeeded the aged recluse Tiberius, the Romans were delighted and for a few months at least he seemed generous and enlightened. So what went wrong? Why was he murdered after a reign of only four years? Is the conventional picture true or false: was he mad and evil or the victim of circumstance and rumour? Is it possible to take a sympathetic view of Caligula…
and is it possible to make sense of him? In his compelling new novel Allan Massie peels back the mask of the monster of popular myth to expose the young emperor as a real man and explore the truth of his brief but tempestuous reign.

The Thistle and the Rose

In an elegant narrative that ranges over 600 years, Allan Massie lays bare the powerful and turbulent relationship between the Scots and the English.

The Caesars

SHORT, CLEAR AND WITTY ROMP THROUGH THE LIVES OF CAESARS FROM THE FIRST OF THE JULIO CLAUDIAN CAESARS JULIUS CAESAR TO THE LAST OF THEM, THE OUTRAGEOUS NERO AND BEYOND TO THE LESSER KNOWN BUT NO LESS FASCINATING CAESARS OF THE DECLINING YEARS OF THE EMPIRE VESPASIAN, TITUS AND DOMITIAN. 22/2/88 SET 10/11.5 PT BEMBO. NO ILLUSTRATIONS: 8000 @ $3. 99: UC= 63P:PENGUIN MAX.

The Novel Today

This is a survey of contemporary British fiction. Focussing primarily on the distinctive achievement and personality of each writer, the author also discusses the contribution of British fiction to such genres as women’s writing, the political novel, spy and crime fiction. It addresses questions such as the rise of mass market publishing and the emergence of an international readership in as*sessing the role of the modern author as we approach the twenty first century.

The Royal Stuarts

‘It drips with blood, cruelty and tears…
Evocative, visceral haunting.’ Daily Telegraph UKIn this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history’s bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family’s lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries. Told with panache, this is the gripping true story of backstabbing, betrayal, and ambition gone awry.

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