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Allan Massie


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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
Imperial
   Augustus (1986)
     aka Let the Emperor Speak
   Tiberius (1990)
   Caesar (1993)
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Dark Ages
   1. The Evening of the World (1999)
   2. Arthur the King (2003)
   3. Charlemagne and Roland (2007)
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Bordeaux
   1. Death in Bordeaux (2010)
   2. Dark Summer in Bordeaux (2012)
   3. Cold Winter in Bordeaux (2014)
   4. End Games in Bordeaux (2015)
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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)
   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)
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Collections
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Non fiction show
 
Allan Massie recommends
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The Fair Folk (2024)
Su Bristow
"An accomplished and intelligent novel, a fine piece of craftsmanship and a pleasure to read."
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After Flodden (2013)
Rosemary Goring
"After Flodden is a tremendous romance, a tale of blood, slaughter, treachery, devotion, and adventure."
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To Heaven By Water (2009)
Justin Cartwright
"I doubt if there's a better English novelist of his generation."

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Anthologies containing stories by Allan Massie
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Heroic Adventure Stories (1998)
Stories from the Golden Age of Greece and Rome
edited by
Mike Ashley

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