Am Prionnsa

Shortlisted for the Best Unpublished Manuscript for Adults at the Gaelic Literature Awards 2024

This book will be available January 2025

About the Book: 

Love, Loyalty and Loss Admidst Scotland's Jacobite Uprising.

In June 1745, the news that Prince Charles Edward Stuart has landed on Eriskay reaches the quiet glen of Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire. Charles Gordon, Laird of Terpersie, and Walter Syme, the parish minister, must make a decision – will they support the Jacobite army in seizing the throne of Britain and restoring it to the House of Stuart? Charles Gordon rushes to the Prince’s banner. The Rev Walter Syme, recently widowed, decides to remain in Tullynessle to look after his family and to support his parishioners.

Meanwhile, in the Brabant, Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, is watching events in Scotland with impatience.

As Charles Gordon’s commitment to the Stuarts leads him to Culloden field, Walter Syme is making plans to marry the young housekeeper at the manse. Although the paths of these men are very different, the lives of their two families become increasingly entwined.

In the end of the day, will there be a price to pay? This is a carefully researched historical novel which ponders the effects of the 1745 Jacobite uprising on the people of Scotland.

About the Author:

Rugadh agus thogadh Graham Cooper ann an ear-thuath na h-Alba. Cheumnaich e à Oilthigh Obar Dethain mar dhotair agus thàinig e gu bhith na dhotair lannsa. Ged a chaidh a’ mhòr chuid den obair aige a dhèanamh ann an Alba, chuir e seachad ùine ann an Èirinn a Tuath, Sasainn agus Nepal.

 An dèidh dha a dhreuchd a leigeil dheth, thòisich e Gàidhlig ionnsachadh. Rinn e clasaichean oidhche ann an Obar Dhethain agus e cùrsa no dhà aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. 

 Tha e an-diugh a’ fuireach ann an Siorrachd Obar Dhethain far a bheil e fhathast a’ gabhail pàirt ann an tachartasan Club Gàidhlig.

Graham was born and brought up in the North East of Scotland and graduated from the University of Aberdeen in medicine, embarking on a surgical career. Although most of his work was done in Scotland, he spent time in Northern Ireland, England and Nepal. 

After retiring, he began learning Gaelic at local night classes and consequently enrolled in some courses at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. He lives in rural Aberdeenshire now where he still participates in local Gaelic classes and events.