Showing results for "The Piper" in Historical Fiction

Hiding away in a castle tower overlooking snowswept moors, Lady Cait Campbell plays her pipe. Her music helps her deal with a past she can never forget and a world she now fears. Gravely injured in battle, Laird Ewan MacLeod survives his wounds but loses his sight. Believing himself incapable of protecting his people, he wishes to relinquish his chiefdom to his young brother, who stubbornly refuses to accept the role, believing Ewan is still the rightful laird.

On the windswept Isle of Islay, retired fisherman Ruairidh MacEachern dies suddenly during lunch with a friend, leaving behind a cryptic legacy. Among his possessions, his grandson Alasdair finds an ancient bagpipe chanter and a mysterious musical composition—keys to secrets buried for centuries. In his quest for answers, Alasdair hires the Sandalwood Investigation Agency, and together they unravel a complex web of ancient Scottish clans, royal conspiracies, and the rich Gaelic heritage that has shaped Scotland’s turbulent history.

London, July 1889. Eight months have passed since the horrific murder of Mary Jane Kelly. The residents of Whitechapel have begun breathing easy again - daring to leave windows open and walk about at twilight. But when old Alice McKenzie is found dead, throat slashed from ear to ear, the whispers begin once more: Jack the Ripper is back. Constance Piper, a flower seller with a psychic gift, was a friend to both women. With the supernatural help of her late mentor and her more grounded ally, police detective Thaddeus Hawkins, she uncovers links between the murders and a Fenian gang.

Isla de Wight, 1334. Al ver próxima su muerte, el abad Felix, superior de la abadía de Vectis, deja constancia en una epístola de un secreto terrorífico y de los extraños acontecimientos relacionados con una orden muy singular: la Orden de los Nombres. Los monjes clarividentes que la componen han dedicado toda su vida a consignar sin descanso en unos libros la fecha de nacimiento y muerte de toda la humanidad...

Bretaña, siglo VII. En la abadía de Vectis crece Octavus, un niño al que le auguran poderes diabólicos. Octavus no tarda en empezar a escribir una lista de nombres y fechas sin ningún sentido aparente. Pero poco después, cuando una muerte en la abadía coincide con un nombre y una fecha de la lista, el miedo se apodera de los monjes.

A novel told in short stories, follow young Ellen as she narrates each story of love, loss, longing, friendship, and entrapment. Inspired by the artistry of the Beatles, each story is framed by a Beatles song or actual Beatles event.

What would you do if you were given 11 rowdy street newsies and told either you turn them into model citizens or they get sold into indenture or sent to the military? Of course, start a pipe and drum corps! Eleven Pipers Piping is the story of a sweet music teacher and 11 boys given one chance or else, but one boy doesn't seem like the others. And just who is his father?

BBC Radio dramatisations and readings of Browning’s most famous poems, performed by stars including Anton Lesser, Roger Allam and David Tennant, plus two bonus plays Victorian poet Robert Browning was renowned for his evocative dramatic monologues peopled with vivid, morally ambiguous...

Zoticus the assassin has killed more people than he can count, but when he is the sole survivor in a town wiped out by plague, he vows to stop the scourge before more innocent lives are lost. But what use is one man against a deadly disease?

Año 2026. Mientras la humanidad se acerca a la fatídica fecha del fin del mundo, el hijo del ex agente del FBI Will Piper desaparece en pos de una joven que afirma tener una información que podría cambiar el destino: no todos los escribas habrían muerto en el suicidio colectivo de la abadía de Vectis. El fin de los escribas es el broche de oro a una trilogía que ha fascinado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo.