Alligin Books: 7 books

Robert Catto's Christmas, a short story set at the end of Gathering Storm.  An account of events which transpired in Edinburgh on Yule Day, 1743.    

Glasgow, 1920s. Growing up in a poor but loving family in a crowded tenements around Glasgow cathedral, Josephine Shaw dreams of a very different kind of life for herself, her motherm brother and sister and is overjoyed when she is taken on as a copygirl at a Glasgow newspaper. The General Strike of 1926 brings tragedy in its wake, Josie is left alone and friendless.

A short biography of a remarkable Scotwoman.​

Glasow, 1932. The whole city was dancin, people trying for a few hours to forget their troubles and the grip of the Depression. Jean Dunlop longs to join them. At the dancing, she meets handsome and charming Andrew Loga. a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. When her fiercely religious employers discover what she's been doing, she finds herself out on the streets.

Edinburgh, Yuletide 1743, and Redcoat officer Robert Catto would rather be anywhere else on earth than Scotland. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city’s Town Guard, he fears his covert mission to assess the strength of the Jacobite threat will force him to confront the past he...

A warm and poignant story of love, triumph over adversity and the building of the great ocean liner, the Queen Mary, set in Clydebank and the West of Scotland during the Hungry Thirties.  Times are hard, but a close-knit community always manages to find a way to laugh at its troubles. Robbie...

Glasgow, 1920s. When her farther dies, Ellie Douglas has little option but to go into service. Her position takes her out of the life of Frank Rafferty - childhood friend and now a member of one of Glasgow's notorious gangs - and into the world of Evander Tait son, heir and black sheep of the Tait household.