The Clydesiders Trilogy

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845028022

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The Clydesiders by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

In the summer of 1914, as the storm clouds of war begin to gather over Europe, life in Glasgow goes on as normal - for the rich in their elegant mansions, and for the poor in the overcrowded tenements of the Gorbals. Up at Hilltop House, home of the wealthy Cartwright family, Virginia Watson is a kitchen maid whose life below stairs is an endless round of hardship and drudgery. Back in the Gorbals, her family are fighting a losing battle against unemployment, hunger and disease, while her father and brothers dream of the revolution that John Maclean and the 'Red Clydesiders' promise will be their salvation. Everything changes for Virginia after a chance meeting with Nicholas Cartwright, a dashing young army officer and heir to the Cartwright fortune. Defying all the conventions of the time, their illicit romance has hardly begun when war breaks out, and Nicholas leaves to face the horrors of the Western Front. A powerful tale of love and loss, The Clydesiders is a brilliant portrayal of Glasgow during the First World War and the revolutionary turmoil of Red Clydeside.

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1903265118

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The Clydesiders Trilogy by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

Epic trilogy of love and loss follows the fortunes of two Glasgow families through WWI, the Depression, and WWII.

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Ulverscroft Large Print Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075052524X

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Clydesiders at War by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

In the summer of 1939, the Gourlay family in their modest Glasgow tenement and the Cartwrights in their luxurious West End home face the horror of another war. Richard Cartwright becomes a fighter pilot; the Gourlay twins' husbands fight in France and Virginia Cartwright becomes a Red Cross Nurse on the Home Front in Glasgow. They also face the consequences of a shattering revelation as the secrets and lies that have dominated all their lives are uncovered, and the mystery that has bound the two families together is finally solved.

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845028077

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The Tobacco Lords Trilogy by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

Beginning in Glasgow during the Jacobite Rising of 1745, The Tobacco Lords Trilogy is the epic story of two very different women - Annabelle Ramsay, the wilful and impetuous daughter of a rich Tobacco Lord, and Regina Chisholm, a child of the slums, born to a life of poverty and degradation yet determined to make something of herself. As the story unfolds, their lives and loves become tragically intertwined, and the two women become deadly enemies - rivals in an all-consuming passion that will last a lifetime and follow them from the streets of Glasgow to the shores of the New World and the splendour of colonial Williamsburg. A compelling story of romance and rivalry, The Tobacco Lords Trilogy is also a marvellous evocation of the city of Glasgow and its people in the 18th century - from the wealth and grandeur of the Tobacco Lords, the city's thriving merchants, to the poverty and desperation of the filthy, overcrowded tenements.

Author : Caitlin McBride,Hugh McAllister,Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845028046

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The Gourlay Girls by Caitlin McBride,Hugh McAllister,Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

In Glasgow at the beginning of the 1930s, the lives of two very different families are about to be changed forever by a tragedy that seems to defy explanation. In their splendid home in the West End, everything seems perfect in the comfortable, privileged lives of bestselling novelist Nicholas Cartwright, his beautiful wife Virginia and their two children. Until one dreadful day, when their world is touched by tragedy and they find themselves struggling to come to terms with a mystery that will haunt them for years to come. Meanwhile, in the run-down tenements of Springburn, the Gourlay family are battling to make ends meet. The Depression has hit Glasgow hard, Erchie Gourlay is unemployed, and only the long hours his daughters spend sewing and dressmaking keeps the spectre of poverty at bay. The future looks bleak for the Gourlays, until the arrival of a destitute young girl on their doorstep brings them new hope for a better life. An enthralling tale of two families, The Gourlay Girls captures the unique atmosphere of Glasgow in the 1930s - from the spectacular Empire Exhibition to the coming of the Second World War.

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845025601

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The Breadmakers Saga by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

The Breadmaker's Saga follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNair's Bakery and the surrounding tenements, are all vividly and absorbingly depicted, as are the lives and loves of people like Catriona, a young woman trying to cope with an overbearing husband; the foreman baker Baldy Fowler and his tragic wife, Sarah; Alec Jackson, the philandering insurance salesman; and a host of other colourful characters, who face up to the ordinary challenges of life and the extraordinary challenges of war with honesty, optimism and hope. 'All human life is there, laughter and tears together.' The Scotsman 'Mrs Davis catches the time with honest-to-goodness certainty.' The Guardian 'Simply written with an exceptional quality of understatement, it wins instant sympathy.' Glasgow Evening Citizen 'A Glaswegian equivalent of Coronation Street.' Daily Express

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 1903265088

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The Gourlay Girls by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

Opening in 1931, this novel is the sequel to THE CLYDESIDERS, and once again is set in Glasgow, where Virginia and her husband Nicholas Cartwright live with their children Richard and Wincy.

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845026486

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Double Danger by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

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.

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845026615

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A Deadly Deception by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

When pensioner Mabel Smith needs some extra cash she decides to try working for an adult chat line. It seems a perfect solution to all her money worries and no one need ever find out. Just when it all seems to be going so well, her best client, John, starts to insist that they meet. But Mabel has given him a description of her neighbour who is a beautiful, young, blonde and Johnis increasingly desperate to meet her. And when he finally discovers where Mabel lives a terrible sequence of events begins to unfold. Set in Glasgow, A Deadly Deception is a tense, compelling, fast-moving thriller with a breathtaking conclusion.

Author : M. Thomson-Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0099305011

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A Sense of Belonging by M. Thomson-Davis Pdf

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000787992

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A Sort of Peace by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

Author : Jack Deighton
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Aging
ISBN : 1857234529

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A Son of the Rock by Jack Deighton Pdf

When Alan and his girlfriend, Sile, come across a primitive hut on the Rock, they are shocked to find an old man living there. as the drug Euthuol has made old-age a thing of the past. Sonny is deeply attached to the Rock and entrusts Alan with protecting it when he dies.

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845026448

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Goodmans of Glassford Street by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

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.

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845028053

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Light & Dark by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

Set in Edinburgh and West Lothian at the end of the Victorian era, Light & Dark is the powerful story of the Blackwood family - Lorianna, a beautiful young woman, married at sixteen to a considerably older man; Gavin, her austere and sanctimonious husband; and Clementina, their wild and wayward daughter who grows up rebelling against everything her parents stand for. In their imposing mansion in the West Lothian countryside, the Blackwoods appear to live an affluent and normal family life. But beneath this veneer of respectability, things are not quite what they seem: Gavin Blackwood is a cruel man, driven by violent animal passions, who makes his wife and daughter's life a misery; Lorianna is secretly involved with another man; and the whole family is about to be engulfed in a dreadful tragedy that will overshadow the rest of their lives.

Author : Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845026530

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The Kellys of Kelvingrove by Margaret Thomson Davis Pdf

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.