Mollie Hunter

Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith, more commonly known as Mollie Hunter (born 1922), is a Scottish writer. Born and bred near Edinburgh in the small village of Longniddry. She currently resides in Inverness.^[1] Her debut was The Smartest Man in Ireland in 1963. She writes fantasy for children, historical stories for young adults and realistic novels for adults. She won the Carnegie Medal in 1974 for The Stronghold.^[2] She also wrote the book A Stranger Came Ashore.

Novels

• Patrick Kentigern Keenan (1963)
• The Smartest Man in Ireland (1963)
• The Spanish Letters (1964)
• The Kelpie's Pearls (1964)
• A Pistol in Greenyards (1965)
• The Ghosts of Glencoe (1966)
• Thomas and the Warlock (1967)
• Ferlie (1968)
• The Walking Stones (1970) aka Bodach
• The Third resistance (1971)
• The Lothian Run (1971)
• The Thirteenth Member (1971)
• The Haunted Mountain (1972)
• A Sound of Chariots (1972)
• The Stronghold (1974)
• A Stranger Came Ashore (1975)
• The Wicked One (1977)
• The Third Eye (1979)
• You Never Knew Her as I Did! (1981)
• The Dragonfly Years (1983)
• Hold on to Love (1984)
• The Enchanted Whistle (1985)
• I'll Go My Own Way (1985)
• Cat, Herself (1986)
• The MidSummer murders(1988)
• The King's Swift Rider (1998)
• Escape from Loch Leven (2003)

Collections

• A Furl of Fairy Wind (1977)

Plays

• Stay for an Answer (1962)
• The Captain
• A Love-song For My Lady
• The Walking Stones

Picture Books

• Hi Johnny (1963)
• The Brownie (1986)
• The Enchanted Boy (1986)
• Flora MacDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie (1988)
• Gilly Martin the Fox (1994)

Non fiction

• Talent Is Not Enough (1976)
• The Pied Piper Syndrome and Other Essays (1992)

References