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All my books are listed separately in the drop-down menu rom this page.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Books for young people<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Highland Clearances novel Fir for Luck<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> based on real events in Sutherland<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Victorian boy-on-the-run adventure Punch<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> based on real events in 1889 and set against a lively backdrop of travelling entertainers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Eco-thriller Wilderness Wars<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> a contemporary eco-thriller for children asking: ‘What if Nature fights back?’<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Smuggling novella Black Water<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> based on real events and featuring the poet Robert Burns<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Wars of Independence\/Middle Ages novel The Siege of Caerlaverock<\/em>, <\/strong>based on real events and Winner of the Young Quills Award 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Viking adventure The Chessmen Thief<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>an origin tale for the famous Lewis Chessmen and Winner of the Young Quills Award 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Jacobite adventure The Reluctant Rebel<\/em><\/strong>, set in the Highlands in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Victorian adventure Rivet Boy<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>set during the building of the iconic Forth Bridge. Winner of Books for Topics Best Curriculum Support Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Mary Queen of Scots adventure The Boy, the Witch & the Queen of Scots<\/em><\/strong>, runner-up for the Young Quills Award 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Cairngorms-set eco-adventure I Don\u2019t Do Mountains<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Wars of Independence\/Middle Ages adventure To War with Wallace<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Tudor adventure Enter Eddie Shakespeare<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Books for adults<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    • Scottish by Inclination<\/strong><\/em> – part memoir, part celebration of European immigration to Scotland<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Our Forth Bridge – Made from Girders<\/strong><\/em> – an A-Z of people’s stories, connected by the iconic Forth Bridge. From the artist who designed the Forth Bridge memorials to the Zoologist who monitors the wildlife beneath it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Goodbye Day Job<\/em><\/strong> – Meet the people who dared to choose drastic changes to their work lif – and find out how it worked out for them five years later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Teaching resources available for all books, free to download in the Resources section of this website<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      All my books are listed separately in the drop-down menu rom this page. Books for young people Books for adults Teaching resources available for all books, free to download in the Resources section of this website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1071","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1071\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}