Jessica Sterling, Author, Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-312-03792-5
Volume two of Stirling's Glasgow trilogy ( The Good Provider ) is a dazzlingly adept period piece set in the drizzly, cold confines of Victorian Scotland as the 19th century draws to a close. Young Kirsty Nicolson feels the pinch of a mean and...
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Jessica Stirling, Author . St. Martin's $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-312-28870-9
Glasgow-born Stirling (Prized Possessions) brings Edwardian Scotland to life in this compelling coming-of-age tale. Eighteen-year-old Lindsay Franklin gets an unexpected jolt when her shipbuilding magnate grandfather gives her a share of the family...
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Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-312-26654-7
The times they are a-changing in fin-de-si cle Scotland, as Stirling wraps up her saga of the fortunes and misfortunes of the aging Campbell sisters, Innis and Biddy, in the concluding volume of her popular Isle of Mull trilogy (after Island Wife...
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Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-17163-6
Although it helps to have read her earlier historical novel, Treasures on Earth, this second volume in Stirling's proposed trilogy, set in rural Scotland of the last century, can stand on its own. The daughters of Gaddy Cochran, the indomitable...
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Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-312-01036-2
What is reality? And does it finally matter? These are the questions first novelist Weaver pursues in this tale set in 2048. After a third world war and an era of moral prohibition, America's liberalization is typified by sexy vidstar Mercedes Night.
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Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-02580-9
This first volume of a projected trilogy by veteran historical novelist Stirling ( Treasures on Earth ) tells the tale of a young farm couple caught up in a struggle to survive in the mean streets of 19th century Glasgow. Kirsty Barnes, an orphan...
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Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (313p) ISBN 978-0-312-05182-2
Despite the success of the first two installments of Stirling's Glasgow saga ( The Good Provider ; The Asking Price ), the third volume is heavy and uneven. Kirsty Nicholson has chosen to remain in a common-law marriage with policeman Craig...
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Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (377p) ISBN 978-0-312-07857-7
This absorbing historical romance combines a fine mystery and a revealing social portrait of 18th-century Scotland. Unmarried Clare Kelso awaits trial in Glasgow in 1787 for the death by poison of her 10-month-old son. The baby's father, Frederick...
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Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-312-10546-4
The proverbial dark and stormy night on the Scottish coast in 1802 is the first scene of this well-told historical romance, which again features Clare Kelso Quinn, last encountered in Lantern for the Dark . The storm heralds the return of the...
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Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14366-4
Set in pre-WWII Glasgow, this appealing coming-of-age novel centers around third-year medical student Alison Burnside as she struggles toward the realization that having it all is impossible. At the same time, all the characters, one way or another,
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Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-19289-1
Definitely not Brigadoon, Stirling's (The Workhouse Girl, etc.) robust and completely absorbing novel set on Mull, a rugged island off the west coast of Scotland in the summer of 1878, is more like a dark and lustful Jane Eyre. The Campbells are a...
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Jessica Stirling, Author St. Martin's Press $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-24433-0
The lives and loves of two Scottish sisters, Innis and Biddy Campbell, propel the second installment of Stirling's deservedly popular Isle of Mull trilogy (after The Island Wife). No longer poor, the two crofter's daughters find themselves at the...
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Jessica Stirling. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8440-4
What if James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom was accused of the murder of his wife, Molly? Stirling (Lantern for the Dark) explores the possibilities in a mystery whose execution doesn’t do justice to this imaginative premise. Insp. Jim Kinsella of the...
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