Description: Sarah Fraser is an award winning writer of Scottish non Fiction; her books; The Last Highlander and The Prince Who Would Be King are must read non fiction of Scottish Highland History
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In 2012, she published The Last Highlander Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel and double Agent (HarperCollins). It won the 2012 Saltire Society First Book Prize, and became a New York Times ebook bestseller. A documentary on its unruly, colourful subject is now available on the HIstory Hit. TV Channel titled The Mystery of the Headless Man
In 2017, she published The Prince Who Would be King : The Life and Death of Henry Stuart. Acclaimed as a TLS Book of the Year for 2017, it was also one of The Telegraph History Books of the Year and the BBC History Magazine Book of the Month, May 2017. A BBC documentary based on the book (title, The Best King We Never Had) aired Nov 30 2017. Presented by Paul Murton, Sarah is the historical consultant, contributed to the writing of it, and appears in it.
Sarah is currently working on a true crime 13 year kidnapping, set between Enlightenment Edinburgh and the wilds of the Highlands; and a book set in the reign of King James VI & I Queen Anna of Denmark. She is also producing a series of podcasts for Dan Snow’s History Hit on the beginning of the Stuart dynasty after 1603, and also it’s violent and catastrophic end following Bonnie Prince Charlie’s 1745 rebellion.