Books published by publisher Williams Blackwood

This is the first truly authentic Highland novel historical novel set in the Highlands Like most of Munro's historical novels John Splendid is set in a period of major social change. It deals with the sack of Inveraray by Montrose and his subsequent victory at the battle of Inverlochy in 1645. It also explores the Highland character under stress, particularly in the persons of Gillesbeg Gruamach, the marquis of Argyll, who is anxious to move on from clan warfare to the more peaceful ways of commerce and the rule of law, and his clansman Iain Alainn, John Splendid himself, a swaggering figure whose loyalty permits him to humour his chief and yield to his whims until, finally convinced of his cowardice, he rebels.