My Blood is Royal
My Blood is Royal is an epic story of lovers torn asunder, family loyalties and betrayals, and one young woman’s undying dream of home. A scrappy Scottish lassie suffers eviction in 1860 from her highland croft but never gives up trying to prove her family as the rightful heirs to their Rannoch homeland.
The idea for this novel was conceived in the Old Monkland Cemetery, near Glasgow, where birth dates and early deaths carved into the crumbling monuments whispered to me the unsung courage of my ancestors. My grandparents’ stories, told to me in rich Scottish dialect, along with research trips to my homeland, helped me breathe life into the nineteenth-century world of My Blood is Royal.
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Lumpy Porridge
and Other Scottish Memories
by Scottish Author Joyce Milne D'Auria, contains reminiscences of an expat, living in Florida for the weather and visiting Scotland to nourish her roots from time to time. It's full of Scottish humour, Glesca' dialect, fish 'n chips, Mum's lumpy porridge; the lot, knowhitamean.
Lumpy Porridge and other Scottish Memories is a compilation of stories Joyce has written over several years, many of these have appeared in The Scottish Banner, a newspaper for expats distributed in North America and Australasia. They are humorous and poignant and uniquely Scottish in style and wit. |
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