Sara Sheridan: The Jewel Keepers

Following The Secrets of Blythswood Square (2024) , The Fair Botanists (Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2022) and Where are the Women?: A Guide to an Imagined Scotland (2021), Sara Sheridanreturns with The Jewel Keepers an immersive historical fiction novel brimming with romance and mystery.

In discussion with Professor Timothy C.

Baker, hear Sheridan discuss the real historical events and places that inspired and intertwine with fiction in this high-stakes treasure hunt through history.Men would kill for this treasure the McKenzie women will guard it with their lives.

In 1837, 25-year-old Araminta McKenzie-Moore is summoned from Richmond to her great aunt's deathbed in Edinburgh.

It's the first time she's met her extended family; the McKenzie women, however, have been keeping a close eye on her.

For they have a long, secret and dangerous history as Jewel Keepers to the Scottish Crown and they need Araminta to play her part to solve a puzzle which stretches back generationsSara Sheridanhas written more than 20 books including novels, non-fiction, TV tie ins, and ghost writing.

Her work has been the First Minister's Summer Pick at the David Hume Institute, shortlisted for the Saltire Prize, the Wilbur Smith Prize and the CWA Dagger in the Library, and she has also won a Scottish Libraries Award.

Her novel The Fair Botanists was the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2022 and featured in series seven of the Queen's Reading Room.

Sara has also written two plays for BBC Radio 4 and has reported from both Tallin and Sharjah for Radio 4's Our Own Correspondent.