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The Raiders

29/12/2019

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​The Raiders was first published on 20th March 1894 and was Crockett’s first novel.   It is the story of a bonnet laird, Patrick Heron and his adventures in Galloway in the early 18th century. His home, Isle Rathan (a fictionalised Heston Island) is central to the action and offers adventure, intrigue and not a little love-making.  In ‘The Raiders,’ Crockett takes the best of Stevenson in plot and the best of John Galt in narrative style and throws in his own unique powers of natural description, to provide us with a compelling story. The landscape of Galloway, from coast into the hills is every bit as much a star of the novel as the hero, or indeed the feisty heroine May Maxwell.   

Published by T.Fisher Unwin, the novel was a runaway success and enabled Crockett to give up the ministry and pursue a full time career as a writer. It is, however, the only one of his novels not serialised before publication. ‘The Raiders’ is the first part of a loose trilogy. Its sequel ‘The Dark o’ the Moon’ (1902) takes the story on a generation, focussing on Patrick’s son Maxwell and the gypsy Hector Faa.  Silver Sand (aka John Faa the ‘King of the Gypsies’) also features in both stories and is central to the final part of the trilogy, which is in the form of a prequel; ‘Silver Sand’(1914) tells the story of Silver Sand and Patrick’s father John Heron as young men. 

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    THE COMPLETE CROCKETT

      1886    Dulce Cor  
    1893    The Stickit Minister 
    1894    Mad Sir Uchtred
    1894    The Play Actress
    1894    The Raiders
    1894    The Lilac Sunbonnet
    1895    Bog Myrtle and Peat
    1895    A Galloway Herd
    1895    Men of the Moss Hags
    1896    Cleg Kelly
    1896    The Grey Man
    1896    Sweetheart Travellers 
    1897    Lads' Love
    1897    Lochinvar
    1897    Sir Toady Lion
    1898    The Red Axe
    1898    The Standard Bearer
    1899    The Black Douglas
    1899    Kit Kennedy
    1899    Ione March
    1900    Joan of the Sword Hand
    1900    Stickit Minister's Wooing
    1900    Little Anna Mark
    1901    Cinderella
    1901    The Firebrand
    1901    Love Idylls
    1901    The Silver Skull
    1902    The Dark o' the Moon
    1902    Flower o' the Corn
    1903    Adventurer in Spain
    1903    The Banner of Blue
    1904    Love of Miss Anne
    1904    Strong Mac
    1904    Raiderland
    ​
    1904    Red Cap Tales
    1905    Maid Margaret
    1905    The Cherry Ribband
    1905    Kid McGhie
    1905    Sir Toady Crusoe
    1906    White Plumes of Navarre
    1907    Me and Myn
    1907    Little Esson
    1907    Vida
    1908    Deep Moat Grange
    1908    Princess Penniless
    1908    Bloom o' the Heather 
    1908    Red Cap Adventures 
    1909    The Dew of Their Youth
    1909    Men of the Mountain
    1909    My Two Edinburghs
    1909    Rose of the Wilderness
    1910    Young Nick and Old Nick
    1911    The Lady of a 100 Dresses 
    1911    Love in Pernicketty Town
    1911    The Smugglers
    1912    Anne of the Barricades
    1912    Sweethearts at Home
    1912    The Moss Troopers
    1913    Sandy's Love
    1913    A Tatter of Scarlet
    1914    Silver Sand
    1915    Hal o' the Ironsides
    1917    The Azure Hand
    1920    The White Pope
    1926    Rogues' Island
    2016   Peter the Renegade 

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