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Overview: Michael was born in Blairgowrie in 1967 and was brought up in Perthshire in Scotland before going on to study history at the University of Stirling and embark on a business career that took him to London, Jersey, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He has now settled back in Auchterarder in Perthshire with his wife Lorna, their two daughters and their beloved dogs.
Genre: Historical Fiction
01 Army of God
Scotland, 1297.
The Plantagenet King, Edward 1st of England, has deposed and imprisoned the Scottish King, John Balliol. While the Scottish nobles bicker and squabble over the crumbs from the English King’s table, Edward’s army terrorizes the Scottish people and seeks to subjugate them at the point of their swords.
Scotland, like Wales before it, seems certain to fall under Edward’s dominion and to be crushed within his iron fist.
To the fury of this great and terrible King, his forces cannot turn occupation into conquest and force the rebellious Scots to succumb to the rule of the Plantagenet King.
Failed by their leaders, the Scottish peasantry defy the mighty Edward and fight to send him homeward to think again.
02 Traitor
The stubborn and rebellious Scots have resisted Edward 1st of England’s attempts to add the Crown of Scotland to that of England. With furious determination, Edward sets about bringing Scotland under his control. As one failed campaign follows another, he risks financial ruin, open rebellion amongst his own nobles, the condemnation of the Pope and the enmity of powerful European kings. His determination to be remembered as the ‘Hammer of the Scots’ condemns Scotland to ten long years of slaughter, burning, rape and pillage.
Through intrigue, cunning and cruelty, he slowly but surely extinguishes the flames of rebellion until only embers of patriotism remain amongst the peasantry. How can commoners like the men of Scotstoun stand against proud Edward’s might, when their superiors are crushed or lose courage and bend the knee?
The First War of Scottish Independence rumbles on and brings more slaughter, suffering and brutality to a country which has done nothing to invite such savagery across its border. Once again, John Edward and his men of Scotstoun are caught up in the power struggles of Edward Plantagenet, King Philip of France, Pope Boniface and the noble families of England and Scotland. The fight for Scotland’s freedom takes them on a perilous journey encompassing the rape of Northern England, the Battle of Falkirk, the Battle of Roslin, the Battle of Courtrai, the court of Philip the Fair of France and the court of Pope Boniface in Rome. These ordinary men find themselves mired in intrigue, betrayal and mortal danger as King Edward struggles to defeat William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and John Comyn in an epic attempt to forge Britain into a single, united kingdom. As one friend after another falls victim to Edward’s insatiable appetite for power, the men of Scotstoun must fight on alone and keep the flame of freedom alive.
03 Bannockburn
Scotland’s struggle for independence reaches its most bloody and brutal stage with mass slaughter inevitable as the avarice and ambition of King Edward of England drive him on to expand the kingdom he inherited from his weakling father.
Only the stubborn, obdurate Scots stand in his way and he must crush them in order to keep the throne he believes to be his by right.
The Plantagenet King throws age and infirmity aside in rage when he is told that Robert Bruce has broken faith and seized the Scottish Crown for himself.
His vow to avenge this insult ignites a new phase of unprecedented savagery in the struggle between the Kingdoms of Scotland and England and will lead to an epic clash between the might of the English nobility and the Scottish King’s peasant army on the field of Bannockburn.
John Edward and his men of Scotstoun once again find themselves at the centre of a clash between two powerful kings which will devastate their lives and force them into acts of heroism that will echo down through the ages.
04 Death of Kings
Though weakened by the crushing defeat of his army at Bannockburn, estranged from the English nobility and financially crippled, King Edward of England stubbornly refuses to relinquish his claim to the Scottish throne and to recognise Robert Bruce as King of Scots.
Determined to force the hand of the enfeebled Plantagenet King, Robert Bruce sends the Earl of Carrick, the Earl of Moray, Sir James Douglas and the men of Scotstoun to raid and pillage deep into England and Ireland to diminish the power of their enemy and to strip away the wealth of England so that Scotland can be strengthened.
Though wounded and beset from all sides, the Plantagenet King will not be so easily defeated. Through determination, guile and hard-headed obstinacy, King Edward resists the Scottish King through two full decades and raises one army after another in order to frustrate Robert Bruce and bring Scotland back under English rule.
John Edward and the men of Scotstoun are at the centre of this epic, dynastic struggle and stand shoulder to shoulder with their countrymen on battlefields on Scottish, Irish and English soil. They must set aside their dreams of peace once again and attempt to win liberty and nationhood through brutal, bloody struggle.
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